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1516 P. Jensen, Das Gilgamesch Epos in der Weltliteratur.

1517 Cf. article "Panbabylonianism" cited in § 866, note.

1518 As, for example, those of New Zealand, Babylonia, and Greece.

1519 Cf. Keightley, Fairy Mythology, 2d ed., p. 14 f.

1520 Bacon, Wisdom of the Ancients; in Biblical exposition many recent writers.

1521 See above, § 864 ff.; cf. Jastrow, Study of Religion, p. 28 ff.

1522Symbolik und Mythologie der alten Völker (1810-1812).

1523Antisymbolik (1824-1826).

1524 Buttmann, Welcker, Lobeck, and others.

1525Prolegomena zu einer wissenschaftlichen Mythologie (1825).

1526 See above, § 865.

1527 See above, § 359. Cf. Grant Allen, The Evolution of the Idea of God.

1528 Darwin and Spencer (evolution), Bastian (ethnology), and others.

1529 In his Early History of Mankind and Primitive Culture. Cf. C. de Brosses (Du culte des dieux fétiches, 1760), who expressed a similar view.

1530 A. Lang, Custom and Myth and Myth, Ritual, and Religion, and other works; Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d and 3d edd.; W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites; and others.

1531 Mannhardt, Wald- und Feldkulte and Mythologische Forschungen.

1532 See the bibliography at the end of this book.

1533 Beginnings for such a survey have been made in the Teutonic, American, and some other areas.

1534 Confucianism, if it can be called a religion, is an exception.

1535 See the bibliographies in Johnson's Universal Cyclopædia, article "Fairy-lore," and La Grande Encyclopédie, article "Fée"; Maury, Croyances et légendes du moyen âge, new ed.; Hartland, The Science of Fairy-tales.

1536 Tylor, Primitive Culture, Index, s.v. Magic; Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., Index, do.; id., Early History of the Kingship, Index, do.; Hobhouse, Morals in Evolution, Index, do.; Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, Index, do.; S. Reinach, Orpheus, Index, do.; Hubert and Mauss, in Année sociologique, vii; Marett, Threshold of Religion; articles "Magie" in La Grande Encyclopédie and "Magic" in Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed.; article "Magia" in Daremberg and Saglio, Dictionnaire des antiquités grecques et romaines.

1537 Examples are cited in the works mentioned above.

1538 On the view that many quasi-magical acts are spontaneous reactions of the man to his environment see I. King, Development of Religion, chap. vii. According to this view the thought suggests the act. The warrior, thinking of his enemy, instinctively makes the motion of hurling something at him (as a modern man shakes his fist at an absent foe), and such an act, a part of the excitation to combat, is believed to be efficacious.

1539 Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, s.v. The Evil Eye.

1540 On mana see above, § 231 ff. Though the theory of mana was necessarily vague, the thing itself was quite definite.

1541 Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 85.

1542Isis and Osiris, 73.

1543 Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 154 ff.

1544 § 6 f.

1545 Cf. Lord Avebury, Marriage, Totemism, and Religion, p. 135.

1546 Alexander, Short History of the Hawaiian People.

1547 Jastrow, Religion of Babylonia and Assyria, p. 263.

1548 Matthews, Navaho Legends, p. 36.

1549 Cf. W. R. Smith, Religion of the Semites, lecture iii.

1550 Teit, Thompson River Indians, p. 53 f.

1551 1 Cor. x, 20 f.

1552 Certain ceremonies of the higher religions produce effects that must be regarded as magical.

1553 Lubbock, Origin of Civilization, p. 188. Similar logic appears in the story of the origin of Goodwin Sands, told by Bishop Latimer (in a sermon preached before Edward VI). An old man, being asked what he thought was the cause of the Sands, replied that he had lived near there, man and boy, fourscore years, and before the neighboring steeple was built there was no Sands, and therefore his opinion was that the steeple was the cause of the Sands.

1554 So among the old Hebrews, according to 1 Sam. xxviii, 9. For Rome cf. Fowler, Religious Experience of the Roman People, lecture iii.

1555 Cf. above, § 889.