[120] It has been thought strange that such a thing as a whirlwind may excite in the savage either fear or anger. To explain this we must consider the nature of wonder: it is an imaginative expansion of surprise, temporary paralysis of the imagination, with emotional disturbance, but no progressive instinct of its own. It either subsides helplessly, or gives place to curiosity, or passes into some other emotion that is connected with an instinct. Accordingly, it usually passes into curiosity or else fear, but sometimes into anger: which of these emotions shall be aroused depends, partly, upon the character of the person who wonders, partly, upon circumstances. [121] _Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to Torres Straits_, VI. p. 321. [122] W. G. Aston, _Shinto_, p. 52. [123] One may trace this process in the interesting collection of spells in Skeat’s _Malay Magic_. [124] Howitt, _The Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 397. [125] Seligman, _Melanesians of British New Guinea_, p. 376. [126] Turner, _Samoa_, p. 138. For further development of the spell, see (besides Skeat, _op. cit._) the collected examples at the end of Sayce’s _Religion of the Ancient Babylonians_. [127] Parker, _The Euahlayi_, p. 26. [128] Seligman, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, pp. 173-5. [129] _The Melanesians_, pp. 118-19. [130] Turner, _Ethnology of the Ungava District_, Am. B. of Ethn., XI. p. 201; and Murdoch, Ethnology of Point Barrow, _Am. B. of Ethn._, IX. p. 434. [131] W.M. Newton, On Palæological Figures of Flint, _Journ. of B. Arch. Ass._, March 1913. [132] _The Song of Roland_, done into English by C. Scott Moncrieff, CLXXIII. [133] T. C. Hodson, _The Naga Tribes of Manipur_, p. 88. [134] _Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits_, V. p. 271. [135] A. E. Crawley, _J.A.I._, XXIV. p. 123. [136] _Development of Moral Ideas_, I, c. 26. [137] Carl Lumholtz, _New Trails in Mexico_, p. 350. [138] _Life of a South African Tribe_, p. 528. [139] See the exhaustive treatment of this subject in Frazer’s _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_. [140] A “barn” is a small spindle-shaped stick, supposed to be thrown in a magical attack by wizards. Howitt, _The Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 377. [141] Hose and McDougall, _Pagan Tribes of Borneo_, I. p. 110. [142] Quoted by Frazer, _Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, I. p. 105. [143] _The Sacred Shrine_, pp. 33-9. [144] _Life of a South African Tribe_, p. 340. [145] Sioux Cults, _Am. B. of Ethn._, XI. p. 484. [146] _New Trails in Mexico_, p. 61. [147] Skeat, _Malay Magic_, p. 48. [148] Quoted by Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, p. 268. [149] _Reports of the Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits_, V. p. 325. [150] W. Grube, _Rel. u. K. d. Chinese_, p. 153.