Custom and Myth eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 287 pages of information about Custom and Myth.

Custom and Myth eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 287 pages of information about Custom and Myth.

{256} Domestic Manners of the Chinese, i. 99.

{258} Fortnightly Review, June 1, 1877.

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

{260} Studies, p. 11.

{265a} O’Curry, Manners of Ancient Irish, l. ccclxx., quoting Trin.  Coll.  Dublin MS.

{265b} See also Elton’s Origins of English History, pp. 299-301.

{265c} Kemble’s Saxons in England, p. 258.  Politics of Aristotle, Bolland and Lang, p. 99. {265d}

{265d} 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.

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

{268} Studies in Ancient History, p. 212.

{270} Fortnightly Review, October 1869:  ‘Archaeologia Americana,’ ii. 113.

{273a} Suidas, 3102.

{273b} Herod., i. 173.

{273c} Cf.  Bachofen, p. 309.

{273d} Compare the Irish Nennius, p. 127.

{276} 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.

{286} Part of the pattern (Fig. 5, b) recurs on the New Zealand Bull-roarer, engraved in the essay on the Bull-roarer.

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

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