Footnote 14: Comp. with p. 71 f., _infra_. Footnote 15: Bruce’s _Travels_, Bk. II., p. 514. Footnote 16: Baker’s _Nile Tributaries of Abyssinia_, p. 137; comp. 126 f. Footnote 17: On the testimony of a Liberian colored clergyman. Footnote 18: See, for example, Sir Robert Ker Porter’s _Travels_, p. 36 f. Footnote 19: Palgrave’s _Personal Narrative of a Journey through Central and Eastern Arabia_, I., 51. Footnote 20: Conder’s _Heth and Moab_, pp. 290, 293. Footnote 21: D’Herbelot’s _Bibliothèque Orientale_, s. v. “Bab,” p. 157. Footnote 22: Roberts’s _Oriental Illus. of Scrip._, p. 149. Footnote 23: Morier’s _Second Journey through Persia_, p. 254. Footnote 24: Ralston’s _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 137. Footnote 25: On the testimony of a Finnish American. Footnote 26: Lund’s _Every-day Life in Scandinavia in the Sixteenth Century_, p. 12 f. Footnote 27: Jones and Kropf’s _Folk-Tales of Magyars_, p. 410, note. Footnote 28: _Ibid._, p. 410 f. Footnote 29: _Ibid._, p. 259. Footnote 30: _Fragmenta Philosophorum Græcorum_ (ed. Mullach), I., 510. Footnote 31: See “Marriage Customs of the Mordvins,” in London _Folk-Lore_, I., 459, note; also, Bergeron’s “Voyage de Calpin,” cap. 10, cited in Burder’s _Oriental Customs_ (2d ed.), p. 24. Footnote 32: Turner’s _Samoa_, p. 37. Footnote 33: See Maspero’s _Life in Ancient Egypt and Assyria_, pp. 195, 219. Footnote 34: Rawlinson’s _History of Herodotus_, II., 47, 48. Footnote 35: Mackay’s _Mackay of Uganda_, pp. 112 f., 177. Footnote 36: See “Sacred Laws of the Aryas,” II., 2, 4, in _Sacred Books of the East_, II., 107. Footnote 37: “A _bali_ is an offering of any sort, such as a handful of rice, flung to birds or spirits or waters, or to any supernatural beings. A _mantra_ is a Vedic text, a verse muttered during a religious ceremony; often used in incantations, or in legitimate services to a god.”–PROF. DR. E.W. HOPKINS. Footnote 38: See “Sacred Laws of the Aryas,” V., 12, in _Sacred Books of the East_, II., 200, 233. Footnote 39: See Sir Henry M. Elliot’s _Races of the Northwestern Provinces of India_ (Beames’s ed.), I., 197. Footnote 40: See report of a meeting of the Bombay Anthropological Society, in London _Folk-Lore Journal_, VI., p. 77. Footnote 41: Jones and Kropf’s _Folk-Tales of Magyars_, p. 410 f., note. Footnote 42: Leland’s _Etruscan Roman Remains in Popular Tradition_, p. 282. Footnote 43: _Ibid._, p. 321 f. Footnote 44: Jones and Kropf’s _Folk-Tales of Magyars_, p. 332 f. Footnote 45: Ralston’s _Songs of the Russian People_, p. 136 f. Footnote 46: See “Death Week in Russia,” in _The Spectator_ (London), for June 18, 1892. Footnote 47: Jones and Kropf’s _Folk-Tales of Magyars_, p. 332. Footnote 48: On the testimony of a native Roumanian. Footnote 49: