Selected Essays, i. 411.
86
Callaway, p. 63.
87
Ibid., p. 119.
88
Primitive Culture, i. 357: ‘The savage sees individual stars as animate beings, or combines star-groups into living celestial creatures, or limbs of them, or objects connected with them.’
89
This formula occurs among Bushmen and Eskimo (Bleek and Rink).
90
The events of the flight are recorded correctly in the Gaelic variant ‘The Battle of the Birds.’ (Campbell, Tales of the West Highlands, vol. i. p. 25.)
91
Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 132; Köhler, Orient und Occident, ii. 107, 114.
92
Ko ti ki, p. 36.
93
Callaway, pp. 51, 53, 64, 145, 228.
94
See also ‘Petrosinella’ in the Pentamerone, and ‘The Mastermaid’ in Dasent’s Tales from the Norse.
95
Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.
96
Poetæ Minores Gr. ii.
97
Mythol. Ar., ii. 150.
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Gr. My., ii. 318.
99
Sonne, Mond und Sterne, pp. 213, 229.
100
This proves that the tale belongs to the pre-Christian cannibal age.
101
Turner’s Samoa, p. 102. In this tale only the names of the daughters are translated; they mean ‘white fish’ and ‘dark fish.’
102
Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.
103
Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, ii. 94-104.
104
Nature, March 14, 1884.
105
The earlier part of the Jason cycle is analysed in the author’s preface to Grimm’s Märchen (Bell & Sons).
106
Comm. Real. i. 75.
107
See Early History of the Family, infra.
108
The names Totem and Totemism have been in use at least since 1792, among writers on the North American tribes. Prof. Max Müller (Academy, Jan. 1884) says the word should be, not Totem, but Ote or Otem. Long, an interpreter among the Indians, introduced the word Totamism in 1792.
109
Christoval de Moluna (1570), p. 5.
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