James Frazer - The Golden Bough - A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)

Die Dorier , 2ii. 96.

E. Man, Aboriginal Inhabitants of the Andaman Islands , pp. 84 sq.

W. E. Roth, North Queensland Bulletin, No. 5, Superstition, Magic, and Medicine (Brisbane, 1903), p. 8.

A. W. Howitt, The Native Tribes of South-East Australia , p. 429.

A. W. Howitt, op. cit. p. 430. One of the earliest writers on New South Wales reports that the natives attributed great importance to the falling of a star (D. Collins, Account of the English Colony in New South Wales (London, 1804), p. 383).

Spencer and Gillen, Northern Tribes of Central Australia , p. 627.

Spencer and Gillen, op. cit. pp. 488, 627 sq.

G. Thilenius, Ethnographische Ergebnisse aus Melanesien , ii. (Halle, 1903) p. 129.

H. A. Junod, Les Ba-ronga (Neuchatel, 1898), p. 470.

A. C. Hollis, The Masai (Oxford, 1905), p. 316.

J. Campbell, Travels in South Africa (London, 1815), pp. 428 sq.

Id. , Travels in South Africa, Second Journey (London, 1822), ii. 204.

G. Zündel, “Land und Volk der Eweer auf der Sclavenküste in Westafrika,” Zeitschrift der Gesellschaft für Erdkunde zu Berlin , xii. (1877) pp. 415 sq. ; C. Spiess, “Religionsbegriffe der Evheer in Westafrika,” Mittheilungen des Seminars für Orientalische Sprachen zu Berlin , vi. (1903) Dritte Abtheilung, p. 112.

Boscana, “Chinigchinich, a Historical Account of the Origin, etc., of the Indians of St. Juan Capistrano,” in A. Robinson's Life in California (New York, 1846), p. 299.

C. Lumholtz, Unknown Mexico (London, 1903), i. 324 sq.

K. von den Steinen, Unter den Naturvölkern Zentral-Brasiliens (Berlin, 1894), pp. 514 sq. The Peruvian Indians also made a prodigious noise when they saw a shooting star. See P. de Cieza de Leon, Travels (Hakluyt Society, London, 1864), p. 232.

G. Kurze, “Sitten und Gebräuche der Lengua-Indianer,” Mitteilungen der Geographischen Gesellschaft zu Jena , xxiii. (1905) p. 17; W. Barbrooke Grubb, An Unknown People in an Unknown Land (London, 1911), p. 163.

M. Dobrizhoffer, Historia de Abiponibus (Vienna, 1784), ii. 86.

W. Tetzlaff, “Notes on the Laughlan Islands,” Annual Report on British New Guinea, 1890-91 (Brisbane, 1892), p. 105.

H. Oldenberg, Die Religion des Veda , p. 267.

W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (Westminster, 1906), ii. 22.

Holzmayer, “Osiliana,” Verhandlungen der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat , vii. (1872) p. 48.

Guillain, Documents sur l'histoire, la géographie, et le commerce de l'Afrique Orientale , ii. (Paris, N.D.) p. 97; C. Velten, Sitten und Gebräuche der Suaheli (Göttingen, 1903), pp. 339 sq. ; C. B. Klunzinger, Upper Egypt (London, 1878), p. 405; Budgett Meakin, The Moors (London, 1902), p. 353.

E. Dieffenbach, Travels in New Zealand (London, 1843), ii. 66. According to another account, meteors are regarded by the Maoris as betokening the presence of a god (R. Taylor, Te Ika a Maui, or New Zealand and its Inhabitants , 2p. 147).

Ch. Wilkes, Narrative of the United States Exploring Expedition , v. 88.

A. W. Howitt, Native Tribes of South-East Australia , p. 369.

A. W. Howitt, in Brough Smyth's Aborigines of Victoria , ii. 309.

E. Palmer, “Notes on some Australian Tribes,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute , xiii. (1884) p. 292. Sometimes apparently the Australian natives regard crystals or broken glass as fallen stars, and treasure them as powerful instruments of magic. See E. M. Curr, The Australian Race , iii. 29; W. E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography, Bulletin No. 5 , p. 8.

J. Macgillivray, Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake (London, 1852), ii. 30.

P. A. Kleintitschen, Die Küstenbewohner der Gazellehalbinsel (Hiltrup bei Münster, n. d.), p. 227.

P. Rascher, “Die Sulka,” Archiv für Anthropologie , xxix. (1904) p. 216.

Dudley Kidd, Savage Childhood (London, 1906), p. 149.

J. Halkin, Quelques Peuplades du district de l'Uelé (Liège, 1907), p. 102.

O. Baumann, Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle (Berlin, 1894), p. 163.

O. Baumann, Durch Massailand zur Nilquelle (Berlin, 1894), p. 188.

E. Petitot, Monographie des Dènè-Dindjé (Paris, 1876), p. 60; id. , Monographie des Esquimaux Tchiglit (Paris, 1876), p. 24.

A. Henry, “The Lolos and other Tribes of Western China,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute , xxxiii. (1903) p. 103.

Pliny, Nat. Hist. ii. 28.

F. Panzer, Beitrag zur deutschen Mythologie , ii. 293; A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, Norddeutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche , p. 457, § 422; E. Meier, Deutsche Sagen, Sitten und Gebräuche aus Schwaben , p. 506, §§ 379, 380.

P. Sébillot, Traditions et superstitions de la Haute-Bretagne , ii. 353; J. Haltrich, Zur Volkskunde der Siebenbürger Sachsen (Vienna, 1885), p. 300; W. Schmidt, Das Jahr und seine Tage in Meinung und Brauch der Romänen Siebenbürgens , p. 38; E. Gerard, The Land beyond the Forest , i. 311; J. V. Grohmann, Aberglauben und Gebräuche aus Böhmen und Mähren , p. 31, § 164; Br. Jelínek, “Materialien zur Vorgeschichte und Volkskunde Böhmens,” Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien , xxi. (1891) p. 25; G. Finamore, Credenze, usi e costumi Abruzzesi , pp. 47 sq. ; M. Placucci, Usi e pregiudizj dei contadini della Romagna (Palermo, 1885), p. 141; Holzmayer, “Osiliana,” Verhandl. der gelehrten Estnischen Gesellschaft zu Dorpat , vii. (1872) p. 48. The same belief is said to prevail in Armenia. See Minas Tchéraz, “Notes sur la mythologie arménienne,” Transactions of the Ninth International Congress of Orientalists (London, 1893), ii. 824. Bret Harte has employed the idea in his little poem, “Relieving Guard.”

H. Lew, “Der Tod und die Beerdigungs-gebräuche bei den polnischen Juden,” Mittheilungen der anthropologischen Gesellschaft in Wien , xxxii. (1902) p. 402.