[26] James Adair, History of the American Indians (London, 1775), pp. 161-163.

[27] (Sir) Henry Babington Smith, in Folk-lore, v. (1894) p. 340.

[28] Miss C.F.  Gordon Cumming, In the Hebrides (London, 1883), p. 211.

[29] W. Gregor, “Quelques coutumes du Nord-est du Comte d’Aberdeen,” Revue des Traditions populaires, iii. (1888) p. 485 B. Compare Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, i. 158 sq.

[30] R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria (Melbourne and London, 1878), i. 450.

[31] E. Gerard, The Land beyond the Forest (Edinburgh and London, 1888), ii. 7.

[32] F. Grabowsky, “Der Distrikt Dusson Timor in Suedost-Borneo und seine Bewohner,” Das Ausland, 1884, No. 24, p. 470.

[33] Narrative of the Second Arctic Expedition made by Charles F. Hall, edited by Prof.  J.E.  Nourse (Washington, 1879), pp. 110 sq.

[34] See Taboo and Perils of the Soul, pp. 207 sqq.

[35] Walter E. Roth, Ethnological Studies among the North-West-Central Queensland Aborigines (Brisbane and London, 1897), p. 156, Sec. 265.  The custom of killing a man by pointing a bone or stick at him, while the sorcerer utters appropriate curses, is common among the tribes of Central Australia; but amongst them there seems to be no objection to place the bone or stick on the ground; on the contrary, an Arunta wizard inserts the bone or stick in the ground while he invokes death and destruction on his enemy.  See Baldwin Spencer and F.J.  Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia (London, 1899), pp. 534 sqq.; id., Northern Tribes of Central Australia (London, 1904), pp. 455 sqq.

[36] Hugh Low, Sarawak (London, 1848), pp. 145 sq.

[37] Pliny, Naturalis Historia xxviii. 33 sq.

[38] Rev. Walter Gregor, Notes on the Folk-lore of the North-East of Scotland (London, 1881), p. 184.  As to the superstitions attaching to stone arrowheads and axeheads (celts), commonly known as “thunderbolts,” in the British Islands, see W.W.  Skeat, “Snakestones and Stone Thunderbolts,” Folklore, xxiii. (1912) pp. 60 sqq.; and as to such superstitions in general, see Chr.  Blinkenberg, The Thunderweapon in Religion and Folklore (Cambridge, 1911).

[39] Pliny, Naturalis Historia, xxix. 52-54.

[40] W. Borlase, Antiquities, Historical and Monumental, of the County of Cornwall (London, 1769), pp. 142 sq.; J. Brand, Popular Antiquities of Great Britain (London, 1882-1883), i. 322; J.G.  Dalyell, Darker Superstitions of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1834), pp. 140 sq.; Daniel Wilson, The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland (Edinburgh, 1851), pp. 303 sqq.; Lieut.-Col.  Forbes Leslie, The Early Races of Scotland and their Monuments