[364] Among the Romans, during the earliest periods, funerals always took place at night; for the evidence see Marquardt, _Das Privatleben der Römer_, pp. 343 f. (1886). [365] As to funeral games see Daremberg et Saglio, _Dictionnaire des antiquités Greques et Romaines_, II. 1376 (1896 ...): “La présence de nombreux chars sur les vases peints du Dipylon fait croire qu’on continua à célébrer des jeux funèbres en l’honneur du mort, et cet usage persista longtemps encore, comme semble l’indiquer une peinture où un char de course est représenté à côté d’une stèle qu’on achève de décorer.” Cp. Rohde, _Psyche ..._, I. 224 f. As Hartland points out (_ERE_, IV. 437 _a_), “funeral games, familiar to us in classical literature, are of very wide distribution. They cannot be separated from dances, for there is no hard and fast line between the two.” [366] See also Rohde, _Psyche ..._, I. 221. [367] In Dionys. VII. 72 there is a description of such a procession in which troops danced in the dress of Sileni and Satyrs. Suet. _Caes._ 84 (Marquardt, _Das Privatleben der Römer_, pp. 352 f.). [368] Crawley, in _ERE_, X. 356 _a_. [369] _Antike Gesichtshelme und Sepulcralmasken_, p. 4 (1878), referred to by Marquardt, _Privatleben der Römer_, p. 241, and see further, pp. 353 ff. [370] Showerman in _ERE_, IV. 505 _b_, 507 _b_. Cp. Daremberg et Saglio, _op. cit._ s.v. _Funus_. [371] _Op. cit._ II. 32. [372] See the present writer’s _Immortality and the Unseen World_, pp. 9, 21 f. [373] _I.e._ “sacred,” the first month of the Musulman year. [374] Jaʿfar Sharif, _Islam in India, or the Qānūn-i-Islam: The Customs of the Musulmans of India_, translated by G. A. Herklots, pp. 161-174 (1921). [375] Frazer, _GB_, _The Magic Art_, II. 183. [376] J. M. Brown, _Maori and Polynesian_, p. 203. “Funeral dances and death-bed dances are a world-wide custom. We hear of them in Patagonia, in Abyssinia, in North America, in the East Indian isles and in the Highlands of Scotland; we read about them in ancient Egypt, and we can see them to-day in Spain, in Ireland, and in the centre of France,” Lilly Grove, _op. cit._ p. 4. [377] _ERE_, IV. 434 _b_. [378] Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_, pp. 358 ff., 716 (1910). [379] Frazer, _The Belief in Immortality_, I. 200 (1913). [380] Frazer, _op. cit._ I. 399. [381] _The Indian Tribes of Guiana_, pp. 154 f. (1868). [382] Schoolcraft, _op. cit._ I. 198, 234. [383] Featherman, _Social History of the Races of Mankind_, I. 413 (1881). [384] Baldwin Spencer, _The Native Tribes of the Northern Territory of Australia_, pp. 234 ff. (1914). [385] Frazer, _op. cit._ I. 293 f. [386] _Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to the Torres Straits_, V. 256. [387] _Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart_, V. 1070. [388] Nelson, _The Eskimo about Bering Strait_, Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Pt. I. 363 (1899). [389] Frazer, _GB_, _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, p. 166.