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722. Irenæus contra Hæres. v. 7, 1; see Origen, De Princep. ii. 3, 2.

723. Tertull. De Anima, 9.

724. Hampole, ‘Ayenbite of Inwyt.’

725. Wuttke, ‘Volksaberglaube,’pp. 216, 226.

726. A. J. Davis, ‘Philosophy of Spiritual Intercourse,’ New York, 1851, p. 49.

727. Calmet, vol.i.ch.xli. &c.

728. ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ vol. ii. p. 359; vol. iii. pp. 104, 556; Earl, ‘Eastern Seas,’ p. 266; St. John, ‘Far East,’ vol. i. pp. 52, 73, 79, 119; Mundy, ‘Narr. from Brooke’s Journals,’ p. 203. Heads were taken as funeral offerings by the Garos of N. E. India, Eliot in ‘As. Res.’ vol. iii. p. 28, Dalton, ‘Descr. Ethnol. of Bengal,’ p. 67; see also pp. 46-7 (Kukis).

729. T. Williams, ‘Fiji,’ vol. i. pp. 188-204; Mariner, ‘Tonga Is.’ vol. ii. p. 220. For New Zealand accounts, see R. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ pp. 218, 227; Polack, ‘New Zealanders,’ vol. i. pp. 66, 78, 116.

730. J. M’Coy, ‘Hist. of Baptist Indian Mission,’ p. 360; Waitz, vol. iii. p. 200.

731. Rochefort, ‘Iles Antilles,’ pp. 429, 512; see also J. G. Müller, pp. 174, 222.

732. Oviedo, ‘Hist. de las Indias,’ lib. xxix. c. 31; Charlevoix, ‘Nouv. Fr.’ vol. vi. p. 178 (Natchez); Waitz, vol. iii. p. 219. See Brinton, ‘Myths of New World,’ p. 239.

733. Brasseur, ‘Mexique,’ vol. iii. p. 573.

734. Piedrahita, ‘Nuevo Reyno de Granada,’ part i. lib. i. c. 3.

735. Cieza de Leon, p. 161; Rivero and Tschudi, ‘Peruv. Ant.’ p. 200; Prescott, ‘Peru,’ vol. i. p. 29. See statements as to effigies, J. G. Müller, p. 379.

736. Simpson, ‘Journey,’ vol. i. p. 190; similar practice among Takulli or Carrier Ind., Waitz, vol. iii. p. 200.

737. Burton, ‘Central Afr.’ vol. i. p. 124; vol. ii. p. 25; ‘Dahome,’ vol. ii. p. 18, &c.; ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iii. p. 403; J. L. Wilson, ‘W. Afr.’ pp. 203, 219, 394. See also H. Rowley, ‘Mission to Central Africa,’ p. 229.

738. Cavazzi, ‘1st. Descr. de’ tre Regni Congo, Matamba, et Angola,’ Bologna, 1687, lib. i. 264; Waitz, vol. ii. pp. 419-21; Callaway, ‘Religion of Amazulu,’ p. 212.

739. Renaudot, ‘Acc. by two Mohammedan Travellers,’ London, 1733, p. 81; and in Pinkerton, vol. vii. p. 215; Marco Polo, book iii. chap. xx.; and in Pinkerton, vol. vii. p. 162.

740. Caron, ‘Japan,’ ibid., p. 622; Siebold, ‘Nippon,’ v. p. 22.

741. ‘Journ. Ind. Archip.’ new series, vol. ii. p. 374.

742. Legge, ‘Confucius,’ p. 119; Doolittle, ‘Chinese,’ vol. i. pp. 108, 174, 192. The practice of attacking or killing all persons met by a funeral procession is perhaps generally connected with funeral human sacrifice; any one met on the road by the funeral of a Mongol prince was slain and ordered to go as escort; in the Kimbunda country, any one who meets a royal funeral procession is put to death with the other victims at the grave (Magyar, ‘Süd. Afrika,’ p. 353); see also Mariner, ‘Tonga Is.’ vol. i. p. 403; Cook, ‘First Voy.’ vol. i. pp. 146, 236 (Tahiti).

743. Jakob Grimm, ‘Verbrennen der Leichen,’ contains an instructive collection of references and citations.

744. Homer, Il. xxiii. 175; Eurip. Suppl.; Pausanias, iv. 2.

745. Edda, ‘Gylfaginning,’ 49; ‘Brynhildarqvitha,’ &c.

746. Cæsar., Bell. Gall. vi. 19.

747. Hanusch, ‘Slaw. Myth.’ p. 145.

748. Strabo, xv. 1, 62; Cic. Tusc. Disp. v. 27, 78; Diod. Sic. xvii. 91; xix. 33, &c.; Grimm, ‘Verbrennen,’ p. 261; Renaudot, ‘Two Mohammedans,’ p. 4; and in Pinkerton, vol. vii. p. 194. See Buchanan, ibid. pp. 675, 682; Ward, ‘Hindoos,’ vol. ii. pp. 298-312.

749. H. H. Wilson, ‘On the supposed Vaidik authority for the Burning of Hindu Widows,’ in ‘Journ. Roy. As. Soc.’ vol. xvi. (1854) p. 201; in his ‘Works,’ vol. ii. p. 270. Max Müller, ‘Todtenbestattung bei den Brahmanen,’ in ‘Zeitschr. der Deutsch. Morgenl. Ges.’ vol. ix.; ‘Chips,’ vol. ii. p. 34.

750. Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ part i. p. 543; part iii. pp. 229, 520; Waitz, vol. iii. pp. 191-3.

751. Klemm, ‘Cultur-Gesch.’vol.iii.pp. 355, 364; Waitz, vol. ii. p. 178.

752. Mouhot, ‘Indo-China,’ vol. i. p. 252.

753. Wood in ‘Tr. Eth. Soc.’ vol. iv. p. 36.

754. Bastian, ‘Mensch,’ vol. iii. p. 26.

755. De Brosses, ‘Dieux Fétiches,’p. 61.

756. Ravenstein, ‘Amur,’ p. 382; T. W. Atkinson, p. 483.

757. St. John, ‘Far East,’ vol. ii. p. 253 (Dayaks).

758. Charlevoix, ‘Nouvelle France,’vol.vi.p. 78; Sagard, ‘Hist. du Canada,’ p. 497; Schoolcraft, ‘Indian Tribes,’ part iii. p. 229.

759. Cranz, ‘Grönland,’ p. 257.

760. Taylor, ‘New Zealand,’ p. 271; Ellis, ‘Madagascar,’ vol. i. p. 429.

761. Steller, ‘Kamtschatka,’ p. 269.