1 For some of the literature of the Evil Eye see Tylor, “Early History,” 134; Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 187 sq.; Westropp, “Primitive Symbolism,” 58 sqq.; Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 8.
2 “Natural History,” vii. 2.
3 Ibbetson, “Panjâb Ethnography,” 117.
4 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 24.
5 Campbell, “Notes,” 207.
6 On this see valuable notes by W. Cockburn in “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” i. 14.
7 For many lists of such names see Temple, “Proper Names of Panjâbis,” 22 sqq.; “Indian Antiquary,” viii. 321 sq.; x. 321 sq.; “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” i.26, 51; iii. 9.
8 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 35.
9 “Folk-lore,” iii. 85.
10 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 20.
11 “Folk-lore,” i. 273; Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 242; Lubbock, “Origin of Civilization,” 243; Farrer, “Primitive Manners,” 119 sq.
12 “Notes,” 400.
13 Cunningham, “Archæological Reports,” vii. 6.
14 “Folk-lore,” ii. 179.
15 “Bombay Gazetteer,” v. 45 sq.
16 “Folk-lore,” iv. 147.
17 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” ii. 42.
18 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 53.
19 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 7.
20 Brand, “Observations,” 753.
21 Campbell, “Notes,” 184.
22 “Notes,” 34.
23 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 5, 60, 62.
24 Reg. vs. Lalla, “Nizâmat Adâlat Reports,” 22nd September, 1853.
25 Gubernatis, “Zoological Mythology,” ii. 281.
26 “Folk-lore,” i. 154.
27 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 386, 575; ii. 64.
28 Brand, “Observations,” 339.
29 “Primitive Manners,” 293.
30 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 181.
31 “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 264.
32 “Bombay Gazetteer,” v. 123; and for another instance, see Jarrett, “Aîn-i-Akbari,” ii. 197.
33 Lâl Bihâri Dê, “Folk-tales,” 108 sqq.; Wilson, “Indian Caste,” ii. 174.
34 Campbell, “Notes,” 69.
35 Brand, “Observations,” 344, 733.
36 v. 21.
37 For further examples see Campbell, “Notes,” 126 sqq.
38 Temple, “Wideawake Stories,” 83; Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i.478.
39 Cunningham, “Archæological Reports,” vii. 50.
40 Campbell, “Notes,” 119.
41 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” iii. 53.
42 Brand, “Observations,” 733.
43 “Anatomy of Melancholy,” 434.
44 Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 146; Leland. “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 267.
45 Hunt, “Popular Romances,” 213.
46 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” iii. 67.
47 Campbell, “Notes,” 49 sq.
48 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 115, 270, 272.
49 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” i. 51.
50 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” ii. 209.
51 Brand, “Observations,” 166.
52 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 260, 279; Hartland, “Legend of Perseus,” ii. 258 sqq.
53 “Folk-lore,” iv. 358, 361.
54 Brand, loc. cit., 724.
55 Campbell, “Notes,” 131; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” ii. 439.
56 Brand, loc. cit., 668.
57 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” ii. 198.
58 Schrader, “Prehistoric Antiquities,” 163 sqq.
59 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 45; Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 205.
60 “Folk-lore,” ii. 292; Rhys, “Lectures,” 446, 553; Campbell, “Popular Tales,” Introduction, lxx.; ii. 98; Hartland, “Legend of Perseus,” i. 37.
61 Brand, “Observations,” 355.
62 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” i. 125.
63 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xii. 117.
64 Campbell, “Notes,” 95.
65 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 261, 321.
66 Brand, “Observations,” 58.
67 Hartland, “Legend of Perseus,” ii. 289.
68 Dalton, loc. cit., 261.
69 “Settlement Report,” 274.
70 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” ii. 29.
71 Campbell, “Notes,” 92.
72 Growse, “Râmâyana,” 99.
73 Frazer, “Totemism,” 26 sq.
74 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 157, 161, 191, 219, 251.
75 Bholanâth Chandra, “Travels of a Hindu,” i. 326; “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” i. 27, 99; Farrer, “Primitive Manners,” 125.
76 Campbell, “Notes,” p. 134.
77 Yule, “Marco Polo,” ii. 69,99; Herodotus, v. 6; and for the Dacians, Pliny, “Natural History,” vii. 10; xxii. 2.
78 Loc. cit., ii. 218.
79 Hislop, “Papers,” ii., note; Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” i. 292.
80 Brand, “Observations,” 399. For the Indian versions of Cinderella and her shoe, see “North Indian Notes and Queries,” iii. 102, 121.
81 “Legend of Perseus,” i. 171.
82 Hunt, “Popular Romances,” 409.
83 Campbell, “Notes,” 105.
84 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 86.
85 Brand, “Observations,” 335.
86 Campbell, “Notes,” 91, quoting Chambers, “Book of Days,” 720.
87 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 93.
88 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” iv. 132; Campbell, “Notes,” 284.
89 Brand, “Observations,” 121.
90 Brand, “Observations,” 598.
91 Rhys, “Lectures.” 348; Miss Cox, “Cinderella,” 489; Grimm, “Household Tales,” ii. 429; Hartland, “Legend of Perseus,” i. 12.
92 Knowles, “Folk-lore of Kashmîr,” 333.
93 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 283.
94 Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 254, note, 301.
95 “History of Indian Architecture,” 57 sqq.; Cunningham, “Archæological Reports,” ii. 87; xvi. 8 sqq.
96 Monier-Williams, “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 203.
97 Aubrey, “Remaines,” 57.
98 “Notes,” 177.
99 Westropp, “Primitive Symbolism,” 58 sqq., 61 sqq.
100 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xviii. 473, 426.
101 “Settlement Report,” 59 sqq.
102 Tod, “Annals,” i. 383, note, 411, note.
103 Campbell, “Notes.” 251.
104 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” ii. 44.
105 “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” iii. 186.
106 “Folk-lore,” ii. 75; Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 110; Brand, “Observations,” 754.
107 Lady Wilde, loc. cit., 79.
108 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 337; ii. 233, 358.
109 ii. 279.
110 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 61.
111 Tod, “Annals,” i. 457; “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 169.
112 Brand, “Observations,” 359.
113 Trumbull, “Blood Covenant,” 65; Lubbock, “Origin of Civilization,” 25; Tylor, “Early History,” 128 sq.; Jones, “Finger-ring Lore,” 91 sqq.
114 Knowles, “Folk-tales,” 23.
115 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 61; ii. 80; Lane, “Arabian Nights,” i. 9.
116 Miss Frere, “Old Deccan Days,” 230, 236.
117 Knowles, “Folk-tales,” 467.
118 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” ii. 49; Tawney, loc. cit., i. 300.
119 Henderson, “Folk-lore of Northern Counties,” 155; Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 145.
120 “Notes and Queries,” i. ser. iv. 500.
121 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 259.
122 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 195, 197, 199.
123 “Settlement Report,” 278, 286.
124 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 15.
125 Tod, “Annals,” i. 415; Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 20.
126 Knowles, “Folk-tales of Kashmîr,” 71; Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 340.
127 Risley, “Tribes and Castes.” i. 173, 315.
128 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 168.
129 Risley, loc. cit., i. 425.
130 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 576, quoting Lenormant, “Chaldean Magic and Sorcery,” 141; Ralston, “Songs of the Russian People,” 288.
131 Campbell, “Notes,” 60.
132 Harland, “Science of Fairy Tales,” 79 sqq.
133 Growse, 146.
134 “Primitive Culture,” i. 120.
135 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 151.
136 Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 48; Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 146 sqq.
137 Lâl Bihâri Dê, “Govinda Sâmanta,” i. 12.
138 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” ii. 66. It has been suggested that the idea arose from the Sanskrit word sasin, meaning “hare-marked” or “the moon”; but this seems rather putting the cart before the horse. Conway, “Demonology,” i. 125; Gubernatis, “Zoological Mythology,” ii. 8; Aubrey, “Remaines,” 20, 109.
139 “Bombay Gazetteer,” vi. 126; Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 128; Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 179.
140 Tod, “Annals,” ii. 577 sq.
141 Malcolm, “Central India,” i. 253, note.
142 Tawney, loc cit., ii. 128.
143 Blochmann, “Aîn-i-Akbari,” i. 91.
144 “Annals,” i. 694.
145 Malcolm, “Central India,” i. 12, note.
146 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 137, 207; ii. 28; iii. 18; “Panjâb Notes and Queries,” i. 15, 87, 137.
147 Growse, “Mathura,” 128.
148 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 200 sq.
149 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 15.
150 Hunt, “Popular Romances,” 379; “Contemporary Review,” xlviii. 108; Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 206.
151 Monier-Williams, “Brâhmanism and Hinduism,” 293.
152 Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 153.
153 Gregor, loc. cit., 206; Conway, “Demonology,” i. 53; Farrer, “Primitive Manners,” 23.
154 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xii. 107; Campbell, “Notes,” 394.
155 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” ii. 34.
156 Brand, “Observations,” 450.
157 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 219.
158 “Folk-lore,” i. 155.
159 Knowles, “Folk-tales,” 401.
160 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 260.
161 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” ii. 10; iii. 90.
162 “Folk-lore,” iv. 257.
163 “Himâlayan Gazetteer,” ii. 832; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” ii. 126; Wilson, “Essays,” ii. 292; Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 147.
164 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” ii. 19.
165 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 83.
166 “Zoological Mythology,” i. 49.
167 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” i. 154.
168 “Bombay Gazetteer,” viii. 159.
169 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 83.
170 Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 14, 271; Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 305, 546; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” ii. 194 sq; “Contemporary Review,” xlviii. 113; Grierson, “Behâr Peasant Life,” 388; “Folk-lore,” ii. 26, 294.
171 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xii. 109; “Illustrations of the History and Practices of the Thags,” 9.
172 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” ii. 75.
173 “Notes,” 214, 473.
174 “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 264.
175 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 202 sq.
176 “Folk-lore,” iv. 360.
177 “Settlement Report,” 263 sq.
178 Hislop, “Papers,” 19.
179 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 274.
180 “Principles of Sociology,” i. 161.
181 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 12; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” ii. 33 sq.
182 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” ii. 7; iii. 17; Campbell, “Notes,” 495.
183 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” i. 196.
184 “Bombay Gazetteer,” iii. 220.
185 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 281.
186 “Legend of Perseus,” ii. 320.
187 Temple, “Wide-awake Tales,” 414; “Legends of the Panjâb,” i. Introduction xix.; “Folk-lore,” ii. 236; Miss Cox, “Cinderella,” 504; Clouston, “Popular Tales,” i. 341; Campbell, “Santâl Folk-tales,” 16; Grimm, “Household Tales,” ii. 382.
188 Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 157, 206; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” i. 482; Lubbock, “Origin of Civilization,” 37; Farrer, “Primitive Manners,” 21 sq.
189 Gubernatis, “Zoological Mythology,” i. 49.
190 “Descriptive Ethnology,” 205.
191 Lady Wilde, “Legends,” 118, 140.
192 “Bombay Gazetteer,” xii. 118; “Folk-lore,” iv. 245.
193 “Travels in the Himâlaya,” i. 342.
194 Risley, “Tribes and Castes,” i. 126, 174, 395; ii. 71; “Bombay Gazetteer,” xiii. 187; Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 218.
195 Hunt, “Popular Romances,” 82.
196 Brand, “Observations,” 519.
197 Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” ii. 152.
198 Risley, loc. cit., ii. 326.
199 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 204 sq.
200 Dyer, “Popular Customs,” 57.
201 Ibid., 199.
202 Ibid., 398.
203 “Folk-lore,” ii. 310.
204 Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 345.
205 “North Indian Notes and Queries,” iii. 35.
206 “Remaines,” 95; Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 57.
207 Gregor, “Folk-lore of North-East Scotland,” 213.
208 Frazer, “Contemporary Review,” xlviii. 117; Spencer, “Principles of Sociology,” i. 195.
209 Campbell, “Notes,” 334.
210 Numbers xix. 15.
211 “Annals,” ii. 542.
212 Grimm, “Household Tales,” ii. 402; Clouston, “Popular Tales,” i. 380.
213 Lane, “Arabian Nights,” i. 71; Lâl Bihâri Dê, “Folk-tales,” 198, 274.
214 Brand, “Observations,” 435.
215 Lâl Bihâri Dê, “Folk-tales of Bengal,” 198, 206; “Govinda Sâmanta,” i. 135; “North Indian Notes and Queries,” iii. 199.
216 “Folk-lore,” ii. 286.
217 “Notes,” 165.
218 Dalton, “Descriptive Ethnology,” 25.
219 Tawney, “Katha Sarit Sâgara,” i. 229; ii. 116; Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” i. 476; ii. 148, 215.
220 Tawney, loc. cit., ii. 338, 511.
221 “Notes,” 146 sq.
222 Tawney, loc. cit., i. 337, 204; ii. 427, 83.
223 Temple, “Wide-awake Stories,” 317; “Indian Antiquary,” xi. 260 sq.; Leland, “Etruscan Roman Remains,” 163.
224 As if from Jaksh, “to eat;” a more probable derivation is Yaksh, “to move,” “to worship.”
225 Spencer Hardy, “Manual of Buddhism,” 269; Conway, “Demonology,” i. 151 sq.
226 “Bombay Gazetteer,” v. 133, 236.
227 Frazer, “Golden Bough,” ii. 17.
228 “Himâlayan Gazetteer,” iii. 117.
229 Ibid., ii. 833; “North Indian Notes and Queries,” i. 56.
230 Ganga Datt, “Folk-lore,” 71.
231 Aubrey, “Remaines,” 59; Henderson, “Folk-lore of the Northern Counties,” 263.
232 Ghoghar in Bombay takes the form of a native seaman or Lascar, “Bombay Gazetteer,” iv. 343.
233 Jacobs, “English Fairy Tales.”