[276] Frazer, _ibid._; Marquardt, _Römische Staatsverwaltung_, III. 427 f. (1885); Aust, _op. cit._ p. 130; Cirilli, _Les Prêtres Danseurs de Rome_, pp. 97 ff. (1913); for Harvest Festivals generally among the Romans see Wissowa, _Religion und Kultus der Römer_, pp. 191 ff., for the _Hilaria_, pp. 321 ff. (1912); Roscher, _Ausführliches Lexikon der griechischen und römischen Mythologie_, s.v. Attis, I. 715 ff. (1884); for the _Vinalia_, Aust, _op. cit._ p. 173. Cp. Farnell, _The Evolution of Religion_, p. 145 (1905). [277] See, for illustrations not mentioned here, Lilly Grove, _op. cit._ pp. 65-92. [278] This is given by Frazer, _GB_, _Spirits of the Corn_ ..., I. 95 f., from A. W. Nieuwenhuis, _Quer durch Borneo_, I. 167-169 (1904 ...). [279] Frazer, _op. cit._ p. 107. See also Chalmers, _Pioneering in New Guinea_, pp. 323 ff. H. L. Roth, _The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo_, I. 262 (1896), says: “The Dyaks really seem to consider dancing as a part of divine service, attributing to it some mysterious and wholesome efficacy”;—they do not enquire why; it is taken for granted that it is so. [280] _Malay Magic_, p. 462 (1900). [281] Cp. Réville, _Les Religions des peuples non-civilisés_, p. 269, who tells of how the imitative magic dance develops into a specifically religious act. [282] _Op. cit._ p. 464; see, further, pp. 465 ff., and also Skeat and Blagden, _Pagan Races of the Malay Peninsula_, I. 364 f., II. 119 ff., 126 ff., 137 with the illustration on p. 138; and for the negro Baris, whose country is situated on either bank of the White Nile, see Featherman, _Social History of the Races of Mankind_, I. 74 (1881). [283] W. Schneider, _Die Religion der Afrikanischen Naturvölker_, pp. 52-58 (1891); Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Süd-Afrika’s_, p. 327 (1872). [284] On initiation dances see Harrison, _Themis_, pp. 24 f. [285] Bab. Talm. _Rosh Ha-shanah_ 16 _a_, Mishnah, _Sukkah_, IV. 9; cp. Mishnah, _Berakôth_, V. 2; see also the curious story in Lucian, _De Dea Syria_, XIII.; and for numbers of examples of rain-charms see Frazer, _GB_, _The Magic Art_, I. 247-329. [286] _The Threshold of Religion_, p. 76 (1909). [287] _ERE_, X. 359 _b_. [288] The root meaning of _ʿanah_ is “to sing,” see Isa. xxvi. 2, Exod. xxxii. 18, Ps. cxix. 172; and cp. the cognate Arabic root _ghanna_; in neo-Hebrew it is often used of singing in chorus. [289] A different interpretation of the passage is given by a few commentators, _e.g._ Briggs in the _Intern. Crit. Com._, but the natural meaning seems to be as above. [290] We have referred to this in another connexion, see p. 141. It is probable that we have in this episode a combination of an historical fact and some form of the Adonis myth. [291] Pausan. IV. xvi. 4. See, further, Hermann, _Gottesdienstliche Alterthümer_, §§ 24, 50.