[469] Cf. Andree, _Ethnographische Parallelen_, Neue Folge, p. 46; Hartland, _The Legend of Perseus_, ii. p. 267. [470] Cf. Rochas, _L’extériorisation de la sensibilité_, pp. 117-139. [471] _Ibid._ p. 72. [472] For the most illustrious and at the same time most lucid statement of this analogy see the remarks of Milton in the preface to _Samson Agonistes_. [473] Cf. the curious instances and interpretations in Brière, _Essai sur le symbolisme_, pp. 38-41. [474] For dramatic elements in the ceremonies of rain-making, see Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, i. pp. 13-18, 20; Bérenger-Féraud, _Superstitions et survivances_, i. chap. viii.; iii. pp. 177-207; Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, pp. 593-595 (vol. ii.); Lang, _Myth, Ritual, and Religion_, i. pp. 97, 98; ii. p. 78. Further instances in Roth, _N. W. C. Queensland_, pp. 167, 168; Woods, _Native Tribes_, pp. 276-278 (Gason, “Dieyerie Tribe”); Williams, _Fiji_, p. 194; Dalton, _Ethnology of Bengal_, p. 261 (Oraons); Skeat, _Malay Magic_, p. 108; Weston in _Journ. Anthr. Inst._ xxvi. p. 30 (Highlands of Central Japan); Stevenson in _Rep. Bur. Ethn._ 1889-90, pp. 80, 94, 110, 111, 115, 116 (The Sia); Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, pp. 227, 228; Bonghi, _Römische Feste_, p. 181. Equally interesting is the curious kind of negative magic that is practised by the Javanese “rain preventers.” See _Glimpses of the Eastern Archipelago_, pp. 68-70 (J. Kreemer, “Rain Preventers”). [475] Frazer, _The Golden Bough_, i. pp. 22, 23; Grove, _Dancing_, p. 85; Ralston, _Songs of the Russian People_, pp. 186-188, 243 _sq._ [476] Grimm, _Teutonic Mythology_, pp. 764-772 (vol. ii.); Ralston, _l.c._ pp. 210, 244-246; Zacher, “Kampf des Sommers und Winters,” in _Globus_, xxxi. pp. 266-269, 284-286. [477] Bérenger-Féraud, _l.c._ v. pp. 177-266; Hartland, _The Legend of Perseus_, i. pp. 173, 174; Soldi, _La langue sacrée_, p. 317 (France); Powers, _Tribes of California_, p. 169 (The Senel). [478] Selenka, _Sonnige Welten_, pp. 429-431 (Sinhalese); Fraser, _Aborigines of New South Wales_, p. 65. [479] That the priests who in dance and drama impersonate a god are considered—and perhaps also consider themselves—as embodiments of this god is a view the probability of which is borne out by many details of religious ritualism. If definite proofs are wanted we need only refer to the express statements of the Zuñi Indians as related by Mrs. Stevenson, _Rep. Bur. Ethn._ 1889-90, p. 116 (Stevenson, “The Sia”); 1883-84, p. 549 (Stevenson, “Religious Life of the Zuñi Child”). [480] Fairer, _Primitive Manners and Customs_, pp. 65, 66. This view may of course also be applied to the interpretation of “pictorial prayers,” such as _e.g._ the wonderful sand-mosaics of the Pueblo Indians. [481] Collins, _The English Colony of N.S. Wales_, i. p. 367.