{80a} Kitchi Gami, p. 105.

{80b} The sun-frog occurs seven times in Sir G. W:  Cox’s Mythology of the Aryan Peoples, and is used as an example to prove that animals in myth are usually the sun, like Bheki, ‘the sun-frog.’

{81a} Dalton’s Ethnol. of Bengal, pp. 165, 166.

{81b} Taylor, New Zealand, p. 143.

{82a} Liebrecht gives a Hindoo example, Zur Volkskunde, p. 239.

{82b} Cymmrodor, iv. pt. 2.

{82c} Prim.  Cult., i. 140.

{83a} Primitive Manners, p. 256.

{83b} See Meyer, Gandharven-Kentauren, Benfey, Pantsch., i. 263.

{84a} Selected Essays, i. 411.

{84b} Callaway, p. 63.

{84c} Ibid., p. 119.

{87} 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.’

{88} This formula occurs among Bushmen and Eskimo (Bleek and Rink).

{92} 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.)

{93a} Ralston, Russian Folk Tales, 132; Kohler, Orient und Occident, ii. 107, 114.

{93b} Ko ti ki, p. 36.

{93c} Callaway, pp. 51, 53, 64, 145, 228.

{93d} See also ‘Petrosinella’ in the Pentamerone, and ‘The Mastermaid’ in Dasent’s Tales from the Norse.

{93e} Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.

{95} Poetae Minores Gr. ii.

{96} Mythol.  Ar., ii. 150.

{97a} Gr.  My., ii. 318.

{97b} Sonne, Mond und Sterne, pp. 213, 229.

{99a} This proves that the tale belongs to the pre-Christian cannibal age.

{99b} Turner’s Samoa, p. 102.  In this tale only the names of the daughters are translated; they mean ‘white fish’ and ‘dark fish.’

{99c} Folk-Lore Journal, August 1883.

{101} Schoolcraft, Algic Researches, ii. 94-104.

{102a} Nature, March 14, 1884.

{102b} The earlier part of the Jason cycle is analysed in the author’s preface to Grimm’s Marchen (Bell & Sons).

{104a} Comm.  Real. i. 75.

{104b} See Early History of the Family, infra.

{105a} The names Totem and Totemism have been in use at least since 1792, among writers on the North American tribes.  Prof.  Max Muller (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.

{105b} Christoval de Moluna (1570), p. 5.

{105c} Cieza de Leon, p. 183.

{105d} Idyll xv.

{107} Sayce, Herodotos, p. 344; Herodotus, ii. 42; Wilkinson’s Ancient Egyptians (1878, ii. 475, note 2); Plutarch, De Is. et Os., 71, 72; Athenaeus, vii. 299; Strabo, xvii. 813.

{108a} The Mouse, according to Dalton, is still a totem among the Oraons of Bengal.  A man of the Mouse ‘motherhood,’ as the totem kindred is locally styled, may not eat mice (esteemed a delicacy), nor marry a girl who is a Mouse.