James Frazer - The Golden Bough - A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)

F. J. Mone, Geschichte des Heidenthums im nördlichen Europa , i. 188.

Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh , p. 96. For other instances of priests or representatives of the deity drinking the warm blood of the victim, cp. Tijdschrift v. Nederlandsch Indië , 1849, p. 395; Oldfield, Sketches from Nipal , ii. 296 sq. ; Asiatic Researches , iv. 40, 41, 50, 52 (8vo. ed.); Paul Soleillet, L'Afrique Occidentale , p. 123 sq. To snuff up the savour of the sacrifice was similarly supposed to produce inspiration. Tertullian, Apologet. 23.

Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh , p. 97.

Lucian, Bis accus. , I; Tzetzes, Schol. ad Lycophr. , 6.

Vambery, Das Türkenvolk , p. 158.

Plutarch, De defect. oracul. 46, 49.

D. Chwolsohn, Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus , ii. 37; Lettres édifiantes et curieuses , xvi. 230 sq. ; Panjab Notes and Queries , iii. No. 721; Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay , i. 103; S. Mateer, The Land of Charity , 216; id. , Native Life in Travancore , p. 94; A. C. Lyall, Asiatic Studies , p. 14; Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh , p. 131; Pallas, Reisen in verschiedenen Provinzen des russischen Reiches , i. 91; Vambery, Das Türkenvolk , p. 485; Erman, Archiv für wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland , i. 377. When the Rao of Kachh sacrifices a buffalo, water is sprinkled between its horns; if it shakes its head, it is unsuitable; if it nods its head, it is sacrificed. Panjab Notes and Queries , i. No. 911. This is probably a modern misinterpretation of the old custom.

Moura, Le Royaume du Cambodge , i. 177 sq.

Pausanias, x. 32, 6.

Vincendon-Dumoulin et Desgraz, Iles Marquises , pp. 226, 240 sq.

Moerenhout, Voyages aux Iles du Grand Océan , i. 479; Ellis, Polynesian Researches , iii. 94.

Tyerman and Bennet, Journal of Voyages and Travels in the South Sea Islands, China, India, etc. , i. 524; cp. p. 529 sq.

Tyerman and Bennet, op. cit. i. 529 sq.

Ellis, Polynesian Researches , iii. 108.

Turner, Samoa , pp. 37, 48, 57, 58, 59, 73.

Hazlewood in Erskine's Cruise among the Islands of the Western Pacific , p. 246 sq. Cp. Wilkes's Narrative of the U. S. Exploring Expedition , iii. 87.

Kubary, “Die Religion der Pelauer,” in Bastian's Allerlei aus Volks- und Menschenkunde , i. 30 sqq.

F. Valentyn, Oud en nieuw Oost-Indiën , iii. 7 sq.

Bastian, Die Völker des östlichen Asien , iv. 383.

Monier Williams, Religious Life and Thought in India , p. 259.

The Laws of Manu , vii. 8, trans. by G. Bühler.

Monier Williams, op. cit. p. 259 sq.

Marshall, Travels among the Todas , pp. 136, 137; cp. pp. 141, 142; Metz, Tribes of the Neilgherry Hills , p. 19 sqq.

Allen and Thomson, Narrative of the Expedition to the River Niger in 1841 , i. 288.

G. Massaja, I miei trentacinque anni di missione nell' alta Etiopia (Rome and Milan, 1888), v. 53 sq.

E. Aymonier, Notes sur le Laos , p. 141 sq.

Robinson, Descriptive Account of Assam , p. 342 sq. ; Asiatic Researches , xv. 146.

Huc, Souvenirs d'un Voyage dans la Tartarie et le Thibet , i. 279 sqq. ed. 12mo.

Huc, op. cit. ii. 279, 347 sq. ; Meiners, Geschichte der Religionen , i. 335 sq. ; Georgi, Beschreibung aller Nationen des Russischen Reichs , p. 415; A. Erman, Travels in Siberia , ii. 303 sqq. ; Journal of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. , xxxviii. (1868), 168, 169; Proceedings of the Roy. Geogr. Soc. N.S. vii. (1885) 67. In the Journal Roy. Geogr. Soc. , l. c. , the Lama in question is called the Lama Gûrû; but the context shows that he is the great Lama of Lhasa.

Alex. von. Humboldt, Researches concerning the Institutions and Monuments of the Ancient Inhabitants of America , ii. 106 sqq. ; Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker , iv. 352 sqq. ; J. G. Müller, Geschichte der Amerikanischen Urreligionen , p. 430 sq. ; Martius, Zur Ethnographie Amerikas , p. 455; Bastian, Die Culturländer des alten Amerika , ii. 204 sq.

R. W. Felkin, “Notes on the Waganda Tribe of Central Africa,” in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh , xiii. 762; C. T. Wilson and R. W. Felkin, Uganda and the Egyptian Soudan , i. 206.

“The Strange Adventures of Andrew Battel,” in Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels , xvi. 330; Proyart, “History of Loango, Kakongo, and other Kingdoms in Africa,” in Pinkerton, xvi. 577; Dapper, Description de l'Afrique , p. 335.

Ogilby, Africa , p. 615; Dapper, op. cit. p. 400.

Dos Santos, “History of Eastern Ethiopia,” in Pinkerton, Voyages and Travels , xvi. 682, 687 sq.

F. S. Arnot, Garenganze; or, Seven Years' Pioneer Mission Work in Central Africa , London, N.D. (preface dated March 1889), p. 78.

MS. notes by E. Beardmore.

Waitz, Anthropologie der Naturvölker , ii. 439.

Labat, Relation historique de l'Ethiopie Occidentale , ii. 172-176.

Schol. on Apollonius Rhod. ii. 1248. καὶ Ἡρόδωρος ξένως περὶ τῶν δεσμῶν τοῦ Προμηθέως ταῦτα. Εἴναι γὰρ αὐτὸν Σκυθῶν βασιλέα φησί; καὶ μὴ δυνάμενον παρέχειν τοῖς ὑπηκόοις τὰ ἐπιτήδεια, διὰ τὸν καλούμενον Ἀετὸν ποταμὸν ἐπικλύζειν τὰ πεδία, δεθῆναι ὑπὸ τῶν Σκυθῶν.

H. Hecquard, Reise an der Küste und in das Innere von West Afrika , p. 78.

Bastian, Die Deutsche Expedition an der Loango-Küste , i. 354, ii. 230.

J. Leighton Wilson, West Afrika , p. 93 (German translation).