229 A. van Gennep, _Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar_ (Paris, 1904), p. 326. 230 Dercylus, quoted by a scholiast on Euripides, _Phoenissae_, 7; _Fragmenta historicorum Graecorum_, ed. C. Müller, iv. 387. The writer rationalises the legend by representing the dragon as a Theban man of that name whom Cadmus slew. On the theory here suggested this Euhemeristic version of the story is substantially right. 231 See _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, ii. 268 _sqq._ 232 David Leslie, _Among the Zulus and Amatongas_, Second Edition (Edinburgh, 1875), p. 213. Compare H. Callaway, _The Religious System of the Amazulu_, Part II., pp. 196, 211. 233 See _Adonis, Attis, Osiris_, Second Edition, pp. 73 _sqq._ 234 D. Livingstone, _Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa_, p. 615; Miss A. Werner, _The Natives of British Central Africa_ (London, 1906), p. 64; L. Decle, _Three Years in Savage Africa_ (London, 1898), p. 74; J. Roscoe, “The Bahima,” _Journal of the Anthropological Institute_, xxxvii. (1907) pp. 101 sq.; Major J. A. Meldon, “Notes on the Bahima,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. 22 (January, 1907), pp. 151-153; J. A. Chisholm, “Notes on the Manners and Customs of the Winamwanga and Wiwa,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. 36 (July, 1910), pp. 374, 375; P. Alois Hamberger, in _Anthropos_, v. (1910) p. 802. 235 W. W. Skeat and C. O. Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_ (London, 1906), ii. 194, 197, 221, 227, 305. 236 A. B. Ellis, _The Ewe-speaking Peoples of the Slave Coast_, pp. 74 sq. 237 This I learned from Professor F. von Luschan in the Anthropological Museum at Berlin. 238 M. Delafosse, in _La Nature_, No. 1086 (March 24th, 1894), pp. 262-266; J. G. Frazer, “Statues of Three Kings of Dahomey,” _Man_, viii. (1908) pp. 130-132. King Behanzin, surnamed the Shark, is doubtless the King of Dahomey referred to by Professor von Luschan (see the preceding note). 239 The statue was pointed out to me and explained by Professor F. von Luschan. 240 A. B. Ellis, _The Tshi-speaking Peoples of the Gold Coast_, pp. 205 _sq._ 241 2 Kings xviii. 4. 242 W. Robertson Smith, “Animal Worship and Animal Tribes,” _Journal of Philology_, ix. (1880) pp. 99 _sq._ Professor T. K. Cheyne prefers to suppose that the brazen serpent and the brazen “sea” in the temple at Jerusalem were borrowed from Babylon and represented the great dragon, the impersonation of the primaeval watery chaos. See _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, _s.v._ “Nehushtan,” vol. i. coll. 3387. The two views are perhaps not wholly irreconcilable. See below, pp. 111 _sq._ M65 The serpent the royal animal at Athens and Salamis.