801 K. Vetter, Komm herüber und hilf uns! oder die Arbeit der Neuen Dettelsauer Mission, Heft iii. (Barmen, 1898) p. 10.

802 Jamblichus, Adhortatio ad philosophiam, 21; Plutarch, Quaest. conviv. viii. 7; Clement of Alexandria, Strom. v. 5, p. 661, ed. Potter. Compare Diogenes Laertius, Vit. philos. viii. 1. 17; Suidas, s.v. “Pythagoras.”

803 For detailed proof of this I may refer to my article, “Some popular Superstitions of the Ancients,” Folklore, i. (1890) pp. 147 sqq.

804 E. Casalis, The Basutos, p. 273.

805 J. Richardson, Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara (London, 1848), ii. 65.

806 Jamblichus, Plutarch, Clement of Alexandria, Diogenes Laertius, Suidas, ll.cc.

807 É. Aymonier, “Notes sur les coutumes et croyances superstitieuses des Cambodgiens,” Cochinchine Française: excursions et reconnaissances, No. 16 (Saigon, 1883), p. 163.