[96]Sir W. Ouseley, _Travels_, vol. i. p. 369.
[99]Cf. Ovid, _Metamorphoses_, viii. 743.
[117]_Nineteenth Century_, October 1895, p. 607.
[128]Apollonius Rhod., _Argonaut._ i. 471 _et seq._
[131]W. R. S. Ralston, _Contemporary Review_, vol. xxxi. p. 521.
[133]Robertson Smith, _op. cit._ pp. 126, 213, 461.
[135]_Metamorphoses_, viii. 741, 774, translated by Henry King (London, 1871).
[150]F. Rinder, _Old-World Japan_ (London, 1895), p. 137.
[152]H. W. Bates, _The Naturalist on the Amazon_ (London, 1863), vol. i. p. 73.
[153]_The Prose or Younger Edda_, translated by G. W. Dasent (Stockholm, 1842), p. 10.
[155]Catlin, _Letters, etc., on North American Indians_, vol. ii. p. 169.
[159]F. Galton, _Narrative of an Explorer_, etc. (London, 1853), p. 188.
[161]Alex. v. Humboldt, _Examen Critique_, vol. i. p. 52.
[163]Goblet d'Alviella, _op. cit._ p. 142.
[168]Servius ad Virgil. _Aeneid_, iii. 91.
[170]_Metamorphoses_, ii. 346-366, translated by Henry King (London, 1871).
[171]_Metamorphoses_, viii. 711-724. The story is told by Lelex of Troezene at a feast given to Theseus by Achelous, the river-god.
[173]_Midsummer Night's Dream_, Act ii. Sc. 2.
[183]_Selections from the Talmud_ (London, 1889), p. 318.
[184]Moore's _Life of Lord Byron_, vol. i. p. 101.
[191]The late General Gordon, in _Times_ for 5th January 1885.
[192]Goblet d'Alviella, _op. cit._ p. 142.
[193]Farnell, _op. cit._ vol. ii. p. 695.
[194]J. Menant, _op. cit._ vol. i. p. 220.
[196]Goblet d'Alviella, _op. cit._ p. 145 _et seq._
[201]Virgil, _Georg._ ii. 291; Servius ad Virgil. _Aeneid_, iv. 446.
[204]_Encyclop. Brit._, 9th edition, vol. xvii. p. 808.
[211]Scholiast on Sophocles, _Trachiniae_ 1169.
[218]_Encyclop. Brit._, 9th edition, vol. xvii. p. 809. Cf. also Farnell, _op. cit._ vol. i. p. 40.
[220]Apollod. i. 9, 16; Philostrat. _Imag._ ii. 15.
[225]Moses Choren, _Hist. Armen._ i. 15, 19.
[226]F. Lenormant, _La Divination chez les Chaldéens_ (Paris, 1875), p. 85.
[227]Sir W. Ouseley, _Travels_, vol. i. p. 369.
[228]The Sháh Námeh, _Chandos Classics_, p. 336.
[230]_Ibid._ iv. 650; Virgil, _Aeneid_, vii. 81.
[238]Bötticher, _op. cit._ p. 113, note 22.
[242]E. Davies, _Celtic Researches_, p. 812; _British Druids_, p. 43.
[243]R. Smith, _op. cit._ p. 179, note 5.