325 For stories of such virgin births see Comte H. de Charency, _Le folklore dans les deux Mondes_ (Paris, 1894), pp. 121-256; E. S. Hartland, _The Legend of Perseus_, vol. i. (London, 1894) pp. 71 _sqq._; and my note on Pausanias vii. 17. 11 (vol. iv. pp. 138-140). To the instances there cited by me add: A. Thevet, _Cosmographie Universelle_ (Paris, 1575), ii. 918 [wrongly numbered 952]; K. von den Steinen, _Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens_ (Berlin, 1884), pp. 370, 373; H. A. Coudreau, _La France Equinoxiale_, ii. (Paris, 1887) pp. 184 _sq._; _Relations des Jésuites_, 1637, pp. 123 _sq._ (Canadian reprint, Quebec, 1858); Franz Boas, _Indianische Sagen von der Nord-Pacifischen Küste Amerikas_ (Berlin, 1895), pp. 311 _sq._; A. G. Morice, _Au pays de l’Ours Noir_ (Paris and Lyons, 1897), p. 153; A. Raffray, “Voyage à la côte nord de la Nouvelle Guinée,” _Bulletin de la Société de Géographie_ (Paris), VIe Série, xv. (1878) pp. 392 _sq._; J. L. van der Toorn, “Het animisme bij den Minangkabauer der Padangsche Bovenlanden,” _Bijdragen tot de Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlandsch-Indië_, xxxix. (1890) p. 78; E. Aymonier, “Les Tchames et leurs religions,” _Revue de l’Histoire des Religions_, xxiv. (1901) pp. 215 _sq._; Major P. R. T. Gurdon, _The Khasis_ (London, 1907), p. 195. In some stories the conception is brought about not by eating food but by drinking water. But the principle is the same. 326 F. S. Krauss, _Sitte und Brauch der Süd-Slaven_ (Vienna, 1885), p. 531. M73 Belief of the Kai that women may be impregnated without sexual intercourse. Belief in the island of Mota that a woman can conceive through the entrance into her of a spirit animal or fruit. 327 Ch. Keysser, “Aus dem Leben der Kaileute,” in R. Neuhauss’s _Deutsch Neu-Guinea_, iii. (Berlin, 1911) p. 26. M74 Similar belief in the island of Motlav.