[669] Forlong, Rivers of Life, London, 1883, vol. 2, p. 313.
[671] Notes and Queries, 1st series, vol. 4, p. 500.
[672] See also Black, Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, p. 79.
[673] Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, vol. 3, p. 1233.
[674] Black, Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, p. 114.
[675] Herrera, dec. 6, lib. 8, cap. 1, p. 171.
[676] Ibid., dec. 7, lib. 4, cap. 5, p. 70.
[677] Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1, p. 351. See also previous references to the use of such cords by the Australians.
[678] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 27.
[679] Highlands of Æthiopia, vol. 1, p. 247.
[680] Through the Dark Continent, vol. 1, p. 398.
[681] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 28, cap. 11.
[682] Notes and Queries, 4th series, vol. 5, pp. 295, 390.
[683] Traité des Superstitions, tome 1, chap. 3, paragraph 8.
[686] Anatomy of Melancholy, vol. 2, pp. 288, 290.
[691] Picart, Cérémonies et Coûtumes, etc., vol. 1, p. 41.
[692] Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, pp. 185, 186.
[698] Salverte, Philosophy of Magic, vol. 1, p. 195.
[699] Black, Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, p. 197.
[700] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 24, cap. 118.
[701] Forlong, Rivers of Life, vol. 1, p. 451.
[702] Pennant, quoted by Brand, Popular Antiquities, vol. 3, p. 54.
[704] Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, pp. 185, 186.
[705] Folk-Medicine, London, 1883, p. 113.
[707] Ephemeridum Physico-medicarum, Leipzig, 1694, vol. 1, p. 49.
[712] Pliny, Nat. Hist., lib. 30, cap. 38.
[715] Brand, Pop. Ant., vol. 3, pp. 288, 324.
[716] This fact is stated by Torquemada, Monarchia Indiana, lib. 10, cap. 33, and by Gomara, Hist. of the Conq. of Mexico, p. 446; see also Diego Duran, lib. 1, cap. 20, p. 226.
[718] John Gilmary Shea, The Catholic Church in Colonial Days, p. 472.
[719] Diego Duran, vol. 3, cap. 4, p. 217.
[720] Anatomy of Melancholy, London, 1827, vol. 1, p. 337.
[721] Picart, Cérémonies et Coûtumes, etc., Amsterdam, 1729, vol. 5, p. 50.
[722] Lady of the Lake, canto 3, stanza 4, Sir Rhoderick Dhu, summoning Clan Alpine against the king.
[724] Lib. 14, cap. 4, and lib. 16, cap. 16.
[726] Ximenez, Hist. Orig. Indios, p. 211.
[729] Researches in South America, p. 83.
[730] Monarchia Indiana, vol. 2, lib. 13, cap. 45, and elsewhere.
[732] Gomara, Historia de la Conquista de Méjico, Veytia's edition, p. 299.