[8] _ERE_, X. 358 _a_. [9] _Traité de la Danse_, p. 8 (1891). Jevons (in a private communication) lays much stress on the sacred dance being, like every rite, “an expression of will.” [10] See Dalman, _Palestinischer Diwan_, p. 254 (1901); cp. Harrison, _op. cit._ p. 31. [11] Crawley, _ERE_, X. 358 _a_. [12] _Ibid._ See further Toy, _Intr. to the Hist. of Religions_, p. 50 (1913). [13] Dalman, _op. cit._ pp. 254 f. [14] _ERE_, X. 358 _a_. [15] Numbered 37984. [16] In the British Museum, _e.g._ see the specimens numbered B 36, B 167, B 625, B 643, E 20, E 35, E 137. [17] Lilly Grove, _op. cit._ p. 41. [18] _ERE_, X. 362 _b_. [19] In _ERE_, X. 358 _a_; cp. Harrison, _op. cit._ p. 44; Leuba, _A Psychological Study of Religion_, pp. 62 f. (1912). [20] Prof. J. Y. Simpson, _Man and the Attainment of Immortality_, p. 115 (1922). [21] _Lectures on the origin and growth of Religion, as illustrated by the native religions of Mexico and Peru_, p. 224 (1895). [22] Marett, _op. cit._ p. 127. [23] Vormann, “Tänze und Tanzfestlichkeiten der Monumbo-Papua,” in _Anthropos_, VI. 415 ff. (1911). [24] Frazer, _GB_, _Balder the Beautiful_, II. 274 (1913). [25] _GB_, _The Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild_, II. 190 f., 195 (1912). [26] See, _e.g._, Toy, _op. cit._ p. 491. [27] Stow, _The Native Races of South Africa_, pp. 111 f. [28] _Maori and Polynesian, their origin, history, and culture_, p. 203 (1907). [29] Cp. de Cahusac, _op. cit._ p. 38. [30] Frazer, _GB_, _The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings_, I. 54 (1911). [31] Millar in Hastings’ _DB_, I. 550 _b_. [32] _The Classical Quarterly_, October 1907, pp. 202 f. [33] _Op. cit._ p. 66, the expression is Hartland’s. [34] In the Targum of Isa. lxvi. 20, however, we have the noun _kirkerān_ (fem. plur.) meaning “dances.” [35] In Neo-Hebrew the word means “to dance.” [36] In the Midrash _Bemidbar Rabba_ to xx. 11 it is said: “When a man plans a sin Satan dances before him....” [37] The underlying idea regarding the threshold has continued through the ages in many localities, witches having taken the place frequently of evil spirits. Walpurgis Night (the eve of May Day) is the special time for their activity, and leaping over the threshold is then a necessary precaution. [38] _Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft_, 1887, p. 719. [39] _Notes on the Hebrew Text of the Books of Samuel_, p. 173 (1890). [40] In “Handkommentar zum A.T.,” _Die Bücher Samuelis_, p. 143 (1902). [41] _Reste Arabischen Heidenthums_, pp. 109 f. (1897). [42] _Hebräisches und Aramäisches Wörterbuch_, p. 98 (1910). [43] _Encycl. Biblica_, I. 999. [44] _Beiträge_ ..., p. 92. [45] _Keilinschriftliche Bibliothek des A.T._, p. 610 (3rd ed.). [46] “He will protect and deliver it, _he will pass over_ and preserve it.” [47] _Encycl. Britannica_, XVIII. 343 _b_ (9th ed.).