[Footnote 13:  Tutelary deities are of house, village, groves, etc.  The ‘House-god’ is, of course, older than this or than Hinduism.  The Rig Veda recognizes V[=a]stoshpati, the ‘Lord of the House,’ to whom the law (Manu, III. 89, etc.) orders oblations to be made.  But Hinduism prefers a female house-goddess (see above, p. 374).  Windisch connects this Vedic divinity, V[=a]stos-pati, with Vesta and Hestia.  The same scholar compares Keltic vassus, vassallus, originally ‘house-man’; and very ingeniously equates Vassorix with Vedic vas[=a][.m] r[=a]j[=a]—­vic[=a][.m] r[=a]j[=a], ‘king of the house-men’ (clan), like h[.u]skarlar,’house-fellows,’ in Scandinavian (domesticus, *_ouk(tes)_).  Windisch, Vassus und Vassallus, in the Bericht. d. k.  Saechs.  Gesell. 1892, p. 174.]

[Footnote 14:  That is to say, a dead man’s spirit goes to heaven, or is re-born whole in the tribe, or is re-born diseased (anywhere, this is penal discipline), or finally is annihilated.  Justly may one compare the Brahmanic division of the Manes into several classes, according to their destination as conditioned by their manner of living and exit from life.  It is the same idea ramifying a little differently; not a case of borrowing, but the growth of two similar seeds.  On the other hand, the un-Aryan doctrine of transmigration may be due to the belief of native wild tribes.  It appears first in the Catapatha, but is hinted at in the ‘plant-souls’ of the RV. (above, pp. 145,204,432), possibly in RV.  I. 164. 30,38; Boetlingk, loc. cit., 1893, p. 88.]

[Footnote 15:  This tribe now divides with the Lurka Koles the possession of Chota Nagpur, which the latter tribe used to command entire.  The Or[=a]ons regard the Lurka Koles as inferiors.  Compare JRAS. 1861, p. 370 ff.  They are sometimes erroneously grouped with the Koles, ethnographically as well as geographically.  Risley, Tribes and Castes of Bengal, p.  XXXII.]

[Footnote 16:  Something like this is recorded by Brinton, Myths of the New World, p. 243, as the belief of an American tribe, which holds that the fate of the dead depends on the manner of death, the funeral rites, or “some such arbitrary circumstance” (as in Greece).]

[Footnote 17:  Compare the epic ‘Mouse-people,’ M[=u]shikas, as well as Apollo’s mouse.  Possibly another Hindu mark of sectarianism may be traced to the wild tribes, the use of vermilion markings.  This is the most important element in the Bengal wedding rite (Risley).]

[Footnote 18:  Above the Sunth[=a]ls, who inhabit the jungle and lower slopes of the R[=a]jmah[=a]l hills, live the P[=a]h[=a]r[=i]as, who never tell a lie (it is said), and whose religion in some aspects is worth noticing.  They believe in one god (over each village god), who created seven brothers to rule earth.  The P[=a]h[=a]r[=i]as descend from the eldest of