[283] Edwards’s Hist. of Brit. West Ind., I., 47; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., VI., 36.
[284] Shooter’s Kafirs of Natal, p. 216.
[285] See Tylor’s Prim. Cult., II., 382, referring to Bastian’s Psychologie.
[286] See Anderson’s Norse Mythol., p. 247.
[287] Ibid., p. 380; Lettsom’s Nibel. Lied, Preface, p. ix.; Cox and Jones’s Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages, p. 254 f.
[288] Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages, p. 260; also Nib. Lied, p. x.
[289] See Bancroft’s Native Races, III., 150; Brinton’s Myths of New World, p. 274 f.; Jackson’s Alaska, p. 103 f.
[290] Charles F. Oldham’s “Native Faiths in the Himalayah,” in The Contemporary Review for April, 1885.
[291] Napier’s Folk-Lore of the West of Scotland, p. 111 f.
[292] Farrer’s Prim. Man. and Cust., p. 276 f.
[293] Lettsom’s Nibel. Lied, p. 183; also Cox and Jones’s Pop. Rom. of Mid. Ages, p. 47 f.
[294] Benson’s Remarkable Trials, p. 94, note.
[295] Cobbett’s State Trials, XI., 1371; cited in Anecdotes of Omens and Superstitions, p. 47 f.
[296] Superstition and Force, pp. 315-323.
[297] Cited from Gamal. ben Pedahzur’s Book of Jewish Ceremonies, p. 11.
[298] Religion in China, pp. 23, 32.
[299] The Religions of China, p. 55.
[300] Dr. Legge here seems to use the word “sacrifice” in the light of a single meaning which attaches to it. There is surely no incompatibility in the terms “banquet” and “sacrifice,” as we find their two-fold idea in the banquet-sacrifice of the Mosaic peace-offering (see Lev. 7 : 11-15).
[301] The Relig. of China, Notes to Lect. I., p. 66.
[302] The Mid. King., II., 194. See also Martin’s The Chinese, p. 258.
[303] The Relig. of China, p. 53 f. Gray thinks differently (China, I., 87.)
[304] The Mid. King., I., 76-78; The Chinese, p. 99; Relig. in China, p. 21; The Relig. of China, p. 25; Confucianism and Taouism, p. 87.
[305] Relig. in China, p. 22. The same is true in sacrifices to Confucius (Gray’s China, I., 87).
[306] Chow le, cited by Douglas in Confuc. and Taou., p. 82 f.
[307] Edkins’s Relig. in China, p. 27.
[309] “The flesh of the horse is eaten both by the Chinese and the Mongolians.” (Gray’s China, II., 174.)
[310] See C. F. Gordon Cumming’s article “A Visit to the Temple of Heaven at Peking,” in Lond. Quart. Rev., for July, 1885.
[311] See Exod. 12 : 7-10.
[312] Gray’s China, II., 271 f.
[313] Gray’s China, I., 102.
[314] See Rev. 7 : 3; 9 : 4; 13 : 16; 14 : 1; 20 : 4; 22 : 4.
[315] The Relig. of China, p. 289.
[316] See The Rite in Burmah, in Appendix.
[317] See Dubois’s Des. Man. and Cust. of People of India, Part III., chap. 7; also Monier Williams’s Hinduism, p. 36 f.
[318] Monier Williams’s Hinduism, p. 35 f.
[319] Ibid., p. 37 f.
[320] Dubois’s Des. of Man. and Cust. in India, Part III., chap. vii.
[321] Heber’s Travels in India, II., 13 f.
[322] Ibid., II., 285.
[323] Dubois’s Des. of Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. xxxi.
[324] Dubois’s Des. of Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. xi.
[325] “The Hindu Pantheon,” in Birdwood’s Indian Arts, p. 76 f.
[326] Ibid., p. 42.
[327] 1 Cor. 11 : 29.
[328] See Roberts’s Oriental Illus. of Scriptures, pp. 484-489.
[332] See Sayce’s paper, in Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch., Vol. I., Part 1, pp. 25-31.
[334] “Whether he has overcome his enemies or the wild beasts, he pours out a libation from the sacred cup,” says Layard (Nineveh and its Remains, Vol. II., chap. 7) concerning the old-time King of Nineveh.
[335] See H. Fox Talbot’s paper, in Trans. Soc. Bib. Arch., Vol. IV., Part 1, p. 58 f.
[336] Mal. 1 : 6, 7. See also Isa. 65 : 11.
[337] 2 Kings 19 : 37; Ezra 4 : 2; Isa. 37 : 38. See also 1 Cor. 10 : 21.
[338] Rec. of Past, III., 122 f.
[339] Sayce’s Anc. Emp. of East, p. 201; also, W. Robertson Smith’s Old Test. in Jew. Ch., notes on Lect. xii.
[340] Rec. of Past, III., 135.
[341] Sayce’s Anc. Emp. of East, p. 266.
[342] Schaff-Herzog’s Encyc. of Relig. Knowl., art. “Parseeism.”
[343] Anc. Emp. of East, p. 266.
[344] See Wilkinson’s Anc. Egypt., III., 30, 400.
[345] Kenrick’s Anc. Egypt., I., 369 ff.
[346] Ebers’s Ægypt. u. d. Büch. Mose’s, p. 245 f.
[347] Wilkinson’s Anc. Egypt., III., 402.
[348] Cited from Castor, in Plutarch, in Wilkinson’s Anc. Egypt., III., 407. See also Ebers’s Ægypt. u. d. Büch. Mose’s, p. 246.
[349] Hist., II., 59.
[351] Wilkinson’s Anc. Egypt., III., 109; 410; Kenrick’s Anc. Egypt., I., 373. See Herodotus, Hist., II., 47.
[352] Hist., II., 61.
[354] See Wilkinson’s Anc. Egypt., III., 404-406.
[355] Renouf’s The Relig. of Anc. Egypt, pp. 138-147.
[356] See Rec. of Past, X., 79-134.
[358] “Man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.” (Deut. 8 : 3. See, also, Matt. 4 : 4; Job 23 : 12; John 4 : 34.)
[359] See John 8 : 31, 32; 16 : 13; 17 : 19.
[360] See Réville’s Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru, pp. 63, 163; Cory’s Anc. Frag., p. 5; Dubois’s Des. Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. 31; Tylor’s Prim. Cult., II., 278 ff.; Dorman’s Orig. of Prim. Supers., p. 150; Andersson’s Lake Ngami, p. 220.
[361] Bancroft’s Native Races, V., 547 f.
[362] Monier Williams’s Hinduism, p. 60.
[363] Bancroft’s Native Races, V., 548.
[364] Bancroft’s Native Races, II., 710.
[365] Mendieta’s Hist. Eccles. Ind., p. 108 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20.
[366] Acosta’s Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind., Bk. V., chap. 27, cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 26.
[367] Herrera’s Gen. Hist. of America, II., 379; cited in Dorman’s Orig. of Prim. Supers., p. 152 f.
[368] Acosta’s Hist. Nat. Mor. Ind., Bk. V., chap. 23; cited in Prescott’s Conquest of Peru, I., 108, note.
[369] Herrera’s Gen. Hist., III., 207 f.; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20.
[370] Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 20. See also Southey’s Hist. of Brazil, II., 370.
[371] Contra Apionem, II., 7.
[373] See Clark’s Indian Sign Language, s. v., “Feast.”
[374] “Should he fail [to eat his portion], the host would be outraged, the community shocked, and the spirits roused to vengeance. Disaster would befall the nation—death, perhaps, the individual.” “A feaster unable to do his full part, might, if he could, hire another to aid him; otherwise he must remain in his place till the work was done.” (Parkman’s Jesuits in No. Am., p. xxxviii.)
[375] “At some feasts guests are permitted to take home some small portions for their children as sacred food, especially good for them because it came from a feast.” (Clark’s Ind. Sign Lang., p. 168.)
[376] Edkins’s Relig. in China, p. 22, note.
[378] Réville’s Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru, p. 183.
[379] Ibid., p. 76.
[381] Des. of Man. and Cust. of India, Part III., chap. 7.
[382] See William and Calvert’s Fiji and the Fijians, pp. 35 f., 161-166, 181 f.
[383] Cited in Parkman’s Jesuits in No. Am., p. 228, note.
[384] Ibid., p. xxxix.
[385] Ibid., p. xl., note.
[386] Origin of Prim. Supers., p. 151 f.
[387] Origin of Prim. Supers., p. 150.
[388] Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru, p. 75 f.
[389] Native Relig. of Mex. and Peru, p. 76.
[390] See references to cannibalism as a religious rite among the Khonds of Orissa, the people of Sumatra, etc., in Adams’s Curiosities of Superstition.
[391] Gen. 49 : 11; Deut. 32 : 14; Ecclesiasticus 39 : 26; 50 : 15; 1 Macc. 6 : 34.
[392] In Beduinen und Wahaby, p. 86 f.
[393] Desert of the Exodus, I., 90.
[395] Wood’s Wedding Day, p. 144.
[396] Mason, in Journ. of Asiat. Soc. of Bengal, Vol. XXXV., Part II., p. 17; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., V., 9.
[397] Andersson’s Lake Ngami, p. 220 f.
[398] Shooter’s Kafirs of Natal, p. 77.
[399] Williams and Calvert’s Fiji and the Fijians, p. 134.
[400] See Monier Williams’s Sanskrit Dictionary, s. v.
[401] See Pike’s Sub-Tropical Rambles, p. 198.
[403] This Oriental custom gives an added meaning to the suggestion, that Christ was sent to bring us to his Father, “that we might receive the adoption of sons” (Gal. 4 : 5).
[404] The citations above made are from Roberts’s Oriental Illustrations of the Scriptures, p. 574, and from Dubois’s Des. of Man. and Cust. of India, Part II., chap. 22; the latter being from the Directory or Ritual of the Purohitas.
[405] Doolittle’s Social Life of the Chinese, I., 85-87.
[406] China, p. 72 f.
[407] Piedrahita’s Hist. New Granada, Bk. I., chap. 6; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., II., 34.
[408] Malcolm, in Trans. Royal Asiat. Soc., I., 83; cited in Spencer’s Des. Soc., V., 8.
[409] Wood’s Wedding Day, p. 142.
[410] Ibid., p. 66 f.
[411] Ibid., p. 124 f.
[412] Rous and Bogan’s Archæologiæ Atticæ, p. 167.
[413] Wood’s Wedding Day, pp. 36, 39.
[414] Wood’s Wedding Day, p. 151.
[415] Ibid., pp. 22, 23.
[416] Ibid., p. 247.
[417] Ibid., p. 247.
[418] Ibid., p. 248.
[419] Ibid., p. 173.
[420] Ross’s The Book of Scottish Poems, I., 218.
[421] Godwyn’s Rom. Historiæ, p. 66 f.
[422] Tylor’s Prim. Cult., I., 85-97.
[423] Kurtz’s History of the Old Covenant, I., 235.
[424] Ibid., I., 268.
[425] Gen. 4 : 2-5.
[426] Heb. 11 : 4.
[427] Ruth 1 : 14.
[428] Gen. 4 : 10, 11.
[429] “For it must be observed, that by the outpouring of the blood, the life which was in it was not destroyed, though it was separated from the organism which before it had quickened: Gen. 4 : 10; comp. Heb. 12 : 24 (παρὰ τὸν Ἅβελ); Apoc. 6 : 10” (Westcott’s Epistles of St. John, p. 34).