Custom and Myth

Domestic Manners of the Chinese, i. 99.

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Fortnightly Review, June 1, 1877.

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Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Natives call these objects their kin, ‘of one flesh’ with them.

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Studies, p. 11.

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O’Curry, Manners of Ancient Irish, l. ccclxx., quoting Trin. Coll. Dublin MS.

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See also Elton’s Origins of English History, pp. 299-301.

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Kemble’s Saxons in England, p. 258. Politics of Aristotle, Bolland and Lang, p. 99.[226 - Mr. Grant Allen kindly supplied me some time ago with a list of animal and vegetable names preserved in the titles of ancient English village settlements. Among them are: ash, birch, bear (as among the Iroquois), oak, buck, fir, fern, sun, wolf, thorn, goat, horse, salmon (the trout is a totem in America), swan (familiar in Australia), and others.]

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‘Gentiles sunt qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Qui ab ingeniis oriundi sunt. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Qui capite non sunt deminuti.’

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Studies in Ancient History, p. 212.

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Fortnightly Review, October 1869: ‘Archæologia Americana,’ ii. 113.

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Suidas, 3102.

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Herod., i. 173.

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Cf. Bachofen, p. 309.

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Compare the Irish Nennius, p. 127.

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The illustrations in this article are for the most part copied, by permission of Messrs. Cassell & Co., from the Magazine of Art, in which the essay appeared.

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Part of the pattern recurs on the New Zealand Bull-roarer, engraved in the essay on the Bull-roarer.

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See Schliemann’s Troja, wherein is much learning and fancy about the Aryan Svastika.

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Mr. Grant Allen kindly supplied me some time ago with a list of animal and vegetable names preserved in the titles of ancient English village settlements. Among them are: ash, birch, bear (as among the Iroquois), oak, buck, fir, fern, sun, wolf, thorn, goat, horse, salmon (the trout is a totem in America), swan (familiar in Australia), and others.