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Servius on Virgil, Georg. ii. 389; id., on Aen. vi. 741.

750

Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia, pp. 505 sq.

751

Festus, s. v. “Oscillantes,” p. 194, ed. C. O. Müller. This festival and its origin are also alluded to in a passage of one of the manuscripts of Servius (on Virgil, Georg. ii. 389), which is printed by Lion in his edition of Servius (vol. ii. 254, note), but not by Thilo and Hagen in their large critical edition of the old Virgilian commentator. “In Schol. Bob. p. 256 we are told that there was a reminiscence of the fact that, the bodies of Latinus and Aeneas being undiscoverable, their animae were sought in the air” (G. E. M. Marindin, s. v. “Oscilla,” W. Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,3 ii. 304).

752

Hyginus, Fab. 130.

753

Probus on Virgil, Georg. ii. 385.

754

Virgil, Georg. ii. 388 sqq.

755

See above, p. 157.

756

W. G. Clark, Peloponnesus (London, 1858), p. 274.

757

J. T. Bent, The Cyclades (London, 1885), p. 5.

758

J. T. Bent, quoted by Miss J. E. Harrison, Mythology and Monuments of Ancient Athens, p. xliii.

759

Vincenzo Dorsa, La Tradizione greco-latina negli usi e nelle credenze popolari della Calabria Citeriore (Cosenza, 1884), p. 36. In one village the custom is observed on Ascension Day instead of at Christmas.

760

Valdés, Los Majos de Cadiz, extract sent to me in the original Spanish by Mr. W. Moss, of 21 Abbey Grove, Bolton, March 23rd, 1907.

761

E. Doutté, Magie et religion dans l'Afrique du nord (Algiers, 1908), pp. 580 sq.

762

W. W. Rockhill, “Notes on some of the Laws, Customs, and Superstitions of Korea,” American Anthropologist, iv. (1891) pp. 185 sq.

763

Pausanias, v. 1. 4.

764

Pausanias, vi. 20. 9.

765

Taboo and the Perils of the Soul, pp. 88 sq.

766

J. L. van Hasselt, “Aanteekeningen aangaande de gewoonten der Papoeas in de Dorebaai, ten opzichte van zwangerschap en geboorte,” Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde, xliii. (1901) p. 566.

767

J. H. Letteboer, “Eenige aanteekeningen omtrent de gebruiken bij zwangerschap en geboorte onder de Savuneezen,” Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap, xlvi. (1902) p. 45.