280 Rev. E. Casalis, _The Basutos_ (London, 1861), p. 246. Compare A. Kranz, _Natur- und Kulturleben der Zulus_ (Wiesbaden, 1880), p. 112. 281 A. C. Hollis, _The Masai_ (Oxford, 1905), p. 307. 282 A. C. Hollis, _The Nandi_ (Oxford, 1909), p. 90. 283 Mervyn W. H. Beech, _The Suk, their Language and Folklore_ (Oxford, 1911), p. 20. 284 H. R. Tate (District Commissioner, East Africa Protectorate), “The Native Law of the Southern Gikuyu of British East Africa,” _Journal of the African Society_, No. xxxv., April 1910, p. 243. See further C. W. Hobley, “Further Researches into Kikuyu and Kamba Religious Beliefs and Customs,” _Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute_, xli. (1911) p. 408. According to Mr. Hobley it is only one particular sort of snake, called _nyamuyathi_, which is thought to be the abode of a spirit and is treated with ceremonious respect by the Akikuyu. Compare P. Cayzac, “La Religion des Kikuyu,” _Anthropos_, v. (1910) p. 312; and for more evidence of milk offered to serpents as embodiments of the dead see E. de Pruyssenaere and H. W. Little, cited above, p. 83, notes 1 and 2. 285 Rev. J. Roscoe, _The Baganda_ (London, 1911), pp. 320 _sq._ My friend Mr. Roscoe tells me that serpents are revered and fed with milk by the Banyoro to the north of Uganda; but he cannot say whether the creatures are supposed to be incarnations of the dead. Some of the Gallas also regard serpents as sacred and offer milk to them, but it is not said that they believe the reptiles to embody the souls of the departed. See Rev. J. L. Krapf, _Travels, Researches and Missionary Labours in Eastern Africa_ (London, 1860), pp. 77 _sq._ The negroes of Whydah in Guinea likewise feed with milk the serpents which they worship. See Thomas Astley’s _New General Collection of Voyages and Travels_, iii. (London, 1746) p. 29. M66 The Greeks and Romans seem to have shared the belief that the souls of the dead can be reincarnated in serpents. 286 L. Preller, _Römische Mythologie_3 (Berlin, 1881-1883), ii. 196 _sq._; G. Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_2 (Munich, 1912), pp. 176 _sq._ The worship of the _genius_ was very popular in the Roman Empire. See J. Toutain, _Les Cultes Païens dans l’Empire Romain_, Première Partie, i. (Paris, 1907) pp. 439 _sqq._ 287 Pliny, _Nat. Hist._ xxix. 72. Compare Seneca, _De Ira_, iv. 31. 6. 288 Apollodorus, _Bibliotheca_, iii. 5. 4; Hyginus, _Fab._ 6; Ovid, _Metam._ iv. 563-603. 289 Plutarch, _Cleomenes_, 39. 290 Porphyry, _De vita Plotini_, p. 103, Didot edition (appended to the lives of Diogenes Laertius). 291 Plutarch, _Cleomenes_, 39; Scholiast on Aristophanes, _Plutus_, 733.