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The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions
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Animism; Human beings -- Origin; Magic; Superstition; Totemism
[193] V. Stefànson, _My Life with the Eskimo_, p. 57.
[194] Hose and McDougall, _Pagan Tribes of Borneo_, II. p. 3.
[195] J. G. Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, p. 403.
[196] _Polynesian Researches_, I. p. 523.
[197] _The Primitive Bakongo_, p. 371.
[198] E. im Thurn, _op. cit._, p. 363.
[199] _Principles of Sociology_, §§ 165-93.
[200] J. G. Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, p. 220.
[201] Franz Boas, _American Bureau of Ethnology_, VI. 1884-5, p. 583.
[202] Callaway, _Religious System of the Amazulu_, pp. 1 and 40. Cf.
Coddrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 150: Koevasi, a spirit, was never
human, yet in some way the originator of the human race.
[203] E. Westermarck, _Marriage Ceremonies in Morocco_, p. 343.
[204] _J.R.A.I._, 1909, p. 163.
[205] See his ingenious speculations in _The Evolution of the Idea of
God_, ch. xiii.
[206] _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, II. iii. ch. vi.
[207] _Among Congo Cannibals_, p. 272.
[208] G. F. Abbott, _Macedonian Folklore_, p. 236.
[209] A. A. Macdonell, _Sanskrit Literature_, p. 44.
[210] T. C. Hodson, _The Naga Tribes of Manipur_, p. 126.
[211] P. A. Talbot, _In the Shadow of the Bush_, p. 73.
[212] Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p. 437.
[213] Spencer and Gillen, _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_, p.
483.
[214] _Grettir Saga_, ch. xxxv.
[215] _Pausanias_, VI. p. 6.
[216] G. F. Abbott, _Macedonian Folklore_, p. 217.
[217] _First Footsteps in East Africa_, p. 52 note.
[218] _American Bureau of Ethnology_, I. p. 200.
[219] _Mythus und Religion_, 2º ed., p. 78.
[220] _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, I. p. 194.
[221] _Malay Magic_, p. 47.
[222] _Spirits of the Corn and the Wild_, I. p. 183.
[223] W. G. Aston, _Shinto_, p. 50.
[224] _In the Shadow of the Bush_, p. 230.
[225] J. O. Dorsey, “Siouan Cults” in the _American Bureau of
Ethnology_, 1889-90, XI. p. 512.
[226] _West African Studies_, p. 200.
[227] J. G. Frazer, _Balder the Beautiful_, II. pp. 196-208; where are
reported other beliefs in a plurality of souls; in one case thirty, in
another thirty-six.
[228] M. A. Czaplicka, _Aboriginal Siberia_, p. 282.
[229] _Malay Magic_, p. 48.
[230] _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, ch. ix.
[231] _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, I. p. 194.
[232] _Monadologie_, 47.
[233] _The Primitive Bakongo_, p. 115.
[234] _Republic_, 611_a_.
[235] Haddon, _Cambridge Expedition to the Torres Straits_, Vol. V. p.
355.
[236] C. G. Seligman, _The Veddas_, p. 133.
[237] R. W. Williamson, _The Mafulu_, p. 266.
[238] J. G. Frazer, _Belief in Immortality_, p. 396.
[239] C. G. Seligman, _The Melanesians_, p. 658.
[240] J. H. Weeks, _The Primitive Bakongo_, p. 224.
[241] Ling Roth, _The Aborigines of Tasmania_, pp. 57-61.
[242] Herodotus, V. p. 93.
[243] On the mortality of gods, see Frazer, _The Dying God_, ch. i.
[244] _Primitive Culture_, II. pp. 75-96.
[245] _Treatise_, B. I., Part III. § 9.
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