155 A. Schlossar, “Volksmeinung und Volksaberglaube aus der deutschen Steiermark,” _Germania_, N.R., xxiv. (1891) p. 389. 156 Boecler-Kreutzwald, _Der Ehsten abergläubische Gebräuche, Weisen und Gewohnheiten_ (St. Petersburg, 1854), p. 73. 157 E. Monseur, _Le Folklore wallon_, p. 61; A. de Nore, _Coutumes, mythes et traditions des provinces de France_, pp. 101, 160, 223, 267, 284; B. Souché, _Croyances, présages et traditions diverses_, p. 23; P. Sébillot, _Traditions et superstitions de la Haute-Bretagne_, ii. 352; J. Lecœur, _Esquisses du bocage normand_, ii. 13; L. Pineau, _Folk-lore du Poitou_ (Paris, 1892), pp. 525 _sq._ 158 L. F. Sauvé. _Le Folk-lore des Hautes-Vosges_ (Paris, 1889), pp. 196 _sq._ 159 F. Chapiseau, _Le Folk-lore de la Beauce et du Perche_ (Paris, 1902), i. 290; G. Finamore, _Credenze, usi e costumi Abruzzesi_ (Palermo, 1890), p. 48. _ 160 North Indian Notes and Queries_, i. p. 102, § 673. Compare _id._ p. 47, § 356; _Indian Notes and Queries_, iv. p. 184, § 674; W. Crooke, _Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India_ (Westminster, 1896), i. 82. 161 W. Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_,2 iii. 171. 162 Maximilian Prinz zu Wied, _Reise in das Innere Nord-America_ (Coblenz, 1839-1841), ii. 152. It does not, however, appear from the writer’s statement whether the descent of the soul was identified with the flight of a meteor or not. 163 D. C. J. Ibbetson, _Outlines of Panjab Ethnography_ (Calcutta, 1883), p. 118, § 231. M49 The fall of the king’s star. M50 Reasons for limiting a king’s reign to eight years. The octennial cycle based on an attempt to reconcile solar and lunar time. 164 L. Ideler, _Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie_, ii. 605 _sqq._ Ninety-nine lunar months nearly coincide with eight solar years, as the ancients well knew (Sozomenus, _Historia ecclesiastica_, vii. 18). On the religious and political import of the eight years’ cycle in ancient Greece see especially K. O. Müller, _Orchomenus und die Minyer_,2 pp. 213-218; _id._, _Die Dorier_,2 i. 254 _sq._, 333 _sq._, 440, ii. 96, 483; _id._, _Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie_ (Göttingen, 1825), pp. 422-424. 165 “Ancient opinion even assigned the regulation of the calendar by the solstices and equinoxes to the will of the gods that sacrifices should be rendered at similar times in each year, rather than to the strict requirements of agriculture; and as religion undoubtedly makes larger demands on the cultivator as agriculture advances, the obligations of sacrifice may probably be reckoned as of equal importance with agricultural necessities in urging the formation of reckonings in the nature of a calendar” (E. J. Payne, _History of the New World called America_, ii. 280).