J. Roscoe, op. cit. p. 67. There is an Arab legend of a king who was slain by opening the veins of his arms and letting the blood drain into a bowl; not a drop might fall on the ground, otherwise there would be blood revenge for it. Robertson Smith conjectured that the legend was based on an old form of sacrifice regularly applied to captive chiefs (Religion of the Semites,
p. 369 note, compare p. 418 note).
802
Rev. E. Gottschling, “The Bawenda,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xxxv. (1905) p. 366.
803
Marco Polo, i. 399, Yule's translation, Second Edition.
804
Sir Walter Scott, note 2 to Peveril of the Peak, ch. v.
805
Charlotte Latham, “Some West Sussex Superstitions,” Folk-lore Record, i. (1878) p. 17.
806
Native Tribes of South Australia, p. 230; E. J. Eyre, Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia, ii. 335; R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i. 75 note.
807
D. Collins, Account of the English Colony of New South Wales (London, 1798), p. 580.
808
Native Tribes of South Australia, pp. 224 sq.; G. F. Angas, Savage Life and Scenes in Australia and New Zealand (London, 1847), i. 110 sq.
809
The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. i. p. 256.
810
Edmund Spenser, View of the State of Ireland, p. 101 (reprinted in H. Morley's Ireland under Elizabeth and James the First, London, 1890).
811
“Futuna, or Horne Island and its People,” Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol. i. No. 1 (April 1892), p. 43.
812
Max Radiguet, Les Derniers Sauvages (Paris, 1882), p. 175.
813
B. F. Matthes, Bijdragen tot de Ethnologie van Zuid-Celebes, p. 53.
814
Fr. Stuhlmann, Mit Emin Pascha ins Herz von Afrika, p. 795.
815
Miss Mary H. Kingsley, Travels in West Africa, pp. 440, 447.
816
A. Kropf, “Die religiösen Anschauungen der Kaffern,” Verhandlungen der Berliner Gesellschaft für Anthropologie, Ethnologie und Urgeschichte, 1888, p. (46).
817
R. H. Nassau, Fetichism in West Africa (London, 1904), p. 83.
818
Le R. P. Guis, “Les Nepu ou Sorciers,” Missions Catholiques, xxxvi. (1904) p. 370. See also The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. i. p. 205.
819
A. van Gennep, Tabou et totémisme à Madagascar, p. 338, quoting J. Sibree, “Remarkable Ceremonial at the Decease and Burial of a Betsileo Prince,” Antananarivo Annual, No. xxii. (1898) pp. 195 sq.
820
Brun-Rollet, Le Nil Blanc et le Soudan (Paris, 1855), pp. 239 sq.
821
Dudley Kidd, The Essential Kafir, p. 169.
822
Lieut. Emery, in Journal of the R. Geographical Society, iii. 282.
823
Ch. Andersson, Lake Ngami (London, 1856), p. 224.
824
Ch. New, Life, Wanderings, and Labours in Eastern Africa, p. 124; Francis Galton, “Domestication of Animals,” Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, N.S., iii. (1865) p. 135. On the original sanctity of domestic animals see, above all, W. Robertson Smith, The Religion of the Semites,
pp. 280 sqq., 295 sqq.
825