[137] Forlong, Rivers of Life, vol. 1, pp. 541, 542.
[141] John de Laet, lib. 3, cap. 18, p. 90, quoting Capt. John Smith.
[142] Le Jeune in Jesuit Relations, 1633, vol. 1, Quebec, 1858.
[143] Third Voyage of David Peter De Vries to New Amsterdam, in Trans. N. Y. Hist. Soc., vol. 3, p. 91.
[144] Charlevoix, New France, New York, 1866, vol. 4, p. 105.
[146] Coleman, Mythology of the Hindus, London, 1832, p. 63.
[148] Speke, Source of the Nile, London, 1863, p. 500.
[150] Stanley, Through the Dark Continent, vol. 1, p. 327.
[151] Miles, Demigods and Dæmonia, in Jour. Ethnol. Soc., London, vol. 3, p. 28, 1854.
[152] Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1, p. 30.
[155] Peter Kolben, speaking of the Hottentots, in Knox, vol. 2, p. 394.
[157] Frazer, Totemism, Edinburgh, 1887, pp. 54, 55; after Maximilian.
[158] Kelly, Narrative of Captivity, Cincinnati, 1871, p. 143.
[161] Brand, Pop. Ant., London, 1882, vol. 3, p. 278.
[162] American Anthropologist, Washington, D. C., January, 1888.
[163] Kingsborough, vol. 8, p. 70. The Aztec believed that the woman who died in childbirth was equal to the warrior who died in battle and she went to the same heaven. The middle finger of the left hand is the finger used in the necklace of human fingers.
[164] Sahagun, in Kingsborough, vol. 7, p. 147.
[165] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 20. Holland's translation.
[166] Shakespeare, Macbeth, act 4, scene 1.
[167] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 11.
[168] Tractatus de Fascinatione, Nuremberg, 1675, p. 681.
[169] Teutonic Mythology, vol. 3, p. 1073.
[171] Montfaucon, l'Antiquité expliquée, vol. 2, liv. 4, cap. 6, p. 249.
[172] Vâsish_th_a, cap. 3, pars. 64-68, p. 25 (Sacred Books of the East, Oxford, 1882, Max Müller's edition).
[173] Travels of Two Mohammedans through India and China, in Pinkerton's Voyages, vol. 7, p. 218.
[175] "Traen los dientes al cuello (como sacamuelas) por bravosidad."--Gomara, Historia de las Indias, p. 201.
[176] "Los Caberres y muchos Caribes, usan por gala muchas sartas de dientes y muelas de gente para dar á entender que son muy valientes por los despojos que alli ostentan ser de sus enemigos que mataron."--Gumilla, Orinoco, Madrid, 1741, p. 65.
[177] Padre Fray Alonzo Fernandez, Historia Eclesiastica, Toledo, 1611, p. 17.