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

Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5, 14.

Snorro Starleson, Chronicle of the Kings of Norway (trans, by S. Laing), saga i. chs. 18, 47. Cp. Liebrecht, Zur Volkskunde , p. 7; Scheffer, Upsalia , p. 137.

C. Russwurm, “Aberglaube in Russland,” in Zeitschrift für Deutsche Mythologie und Sittenkunde , iv. 162; Liebrecht, op. cit. , p. 15.

Turner, Samoa , p. 304 sq.

Plutarch, Isis et Osiris , 73.

Garcilasso de la Vega, First Part of the Royal Commentaries of the Yncas , bk. ii. chs. 8 and 15 (vol. i. pp. 131, 155, Markham's Trans.)

Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States , ii. 146.

Dennys, Folk-lore of China , p. 125.

Ammianus Marcellinus, xxiii. 6, § 5 and 6.

C. P. Tiele, History of the Egyptian Religion , p. 103 sq. On the worship of the kings see also E. Meyer, Geschichte des Altertums , i. § 52; A. Erman, Aegypten und aegyptisches Leben im Altertum , p. 91 sqq. ; V. von Strauss und Carnen, Die altägyptischen Götter und Göttersagen , p. 467 sqq.

Ammianus Marcellinus, xxviii. 5, 14; Plutarch, Isis et Osiris , 73.

V. von Strauss und Carnen, op. cit. p. 470.

Tiele, History of the Egyptian Religion , p. 105. The Babylonian and Assyrian kings seem also to have been regarded as gods; at least the oldest names of the kings on the monuments are preceded by a star, the mark for “god.” But there is no trace in Babylon and Assyria of temples and priests for the worship of the kings. See Tiele, Babylonisch-Assyrische Geschichte , p. 492 sq.

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

“Excursion de M. Brun-Rollet dans la région supérieure du Nil,” Bulletin de la Société de Géographie , Paris, 1852, pt. ii. p. 421 sqq.

W. Munzinger, Ostafrikanische Studien , p. 474 (Schaffhausen, 1864).

J. Moura, Le Royaume du Cambodge , i. 432-436; Aymonier, “Notes sur les coutumes et croyances superstitieuses des Cambodgìens,” in Cochinchine Française, Excursions et Reconnaissances , No. 16, p. 172 sq. ; id. , Notes sur le Laos , p. 60.

Caesar, Bell. Gall. vi. 25.

Elton, Origins of English History , pp. 3, 106 sq. , 224.

W. Helbig, Die Italiker in der Poebene , p. 25 sq.

H. Nissen, Italische Landeskunde , p. 431 sqq.

Neumann und Partsch, Physikalische Geographie von Griechenland , p. 357 sqq.

Grimm, Deutsche Mythologie , 4i. 53 sqq.

The locus classicus is Pliny, Nat. Hist. xvi. § 249 sqq.

Grimm, D. M. i. 56 sqq.

Adam of Bremen, Descriptio Insul. Aquil. p. 27.

“Prisca antiquorum Prutenorum religio,” in Respublica sive Status Regni Poloniae, Lituaniae, Prussiae, Livoniae , etc. (Elzevir, 1627), p. 321 sq. ; Dusburg, Chronicon Prussiae , ed. Hartknoch, p. 79; Hartknoch, Alt- und Neues Preussen , p. 116 sqq.

Mathias Michov, “De Sarmatia Asiana atque Europea,” in Novus Orbis regionum ac insularum veteribus incognitarum (Paris, 1532), pp. 455 sq. 456 [wrongly numbered 445, 446]; Martin Cromer, De origine et rebus gestis Polonorum (Basel, 1568), p. 241.

See Bötticher, Der Baumkultus der Hellenen .

Pliny, Nat. Hist. xv. § 77; Tacitus, Ann. xiii. 58.

Plutarch, Romulus , 20.

J. L. Krapf, Travels, Researches, and Missionary Labours during an Eighteen Years' Residence in Eastern Africa , p. 198.

Loubere, Historical Relation of the Kingdom of Siam , p. 126.

Hupe “Over de godsdienst, zeden, enz. der Dajakker's” in Tijdschrift voor Neêrland's Indië , 1846, dl. iii. 158.

Merolla, “Voyage to Congo,” in Pinkerton's Voyages and Travels , xvi. 236.

Monier Williams, Religious Life and Thought in India , p. 334 sq.

Sir Henry M. Elliot and J. Beames, Memoirs on the History etc. of the Races of the North Western Provinces of India , i. 233.

Die gestriegelte Rockenphilosophie (Chemnitz, 1759), p. 239 sq. ; U. Jahn, Die deutsche Opfergebräuche bei Ackerbau und Viehzucht , p. 214 sqq.

Van Schmid, “Aanteekeningen, nopens de zeden, gewoonten en gebruiken, etc., der bevolking van de eilanden Saparoea, etc.” in Tijdschrift v. Neêrland's Indië , 1843, dl. ii. 605; Bastian, Indonesien , i. 156.

Van Hoëvell, Ambon en meer bepaaldelijk de Oeliasers , p. 62.

The Indian Antiquary , i. 170.

J. Aubrey, Remaines of Gentilisme , p. 247.

Peter Jones's History of the Ojebway Indians , p. 104.

A. Peter, Volksthümliches aus Österreichisch-Schlesien , ii. 30.

Bastian, Indonesien , i. 154; cp. id. , Die Völker des estlichen Asien , ii. 457 sq. , iii. 251 sq. , iv. 42 sq.

Loubere, Siam , p. 126.

Turner, Samoa , p. 63.

Mannhardt, Baumkultus , p. 35 sq.

Native Tribes of South Australia , p. 280.

Blumentritt, “Der Ahnencultus und die religiösen Anschauungen der Malaien des Philippinen-Archipels,” in Mittheilungen der Wiener Geogr. Gesellschaft , 1882, p. 165 sq.

Landes, “Contes et légendes annamites,” No. 9, in Cochinchine Française, Excursions et Reconnaissances , No. 20, p. 310.

Kubary in Bastian's Allerlei aus Mensch-und Volkenkunde , i. 52.

Dalton, Ethnology of Bengal , p. 25; Bastian, Volkerstämme am Brahmaputra , p. 37.

Journal R. Asiatic Society , vii. (1843) 29.