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. 663 ff., and cf. Lang’s tr., p. 494.

[28] _Vide_ my _Jesus of Nazareth_, p. 144.

[29] Notably _Tobit_ and _Baruch_, and cf. _Book of Wisdom_, ii. 24, for earliest indications of the belief. The Asmodeus of _Tobit_, iii. 8 and 17, appears to be the Aeshmô dâevô of the Zend-Avesta.

[30] Exodus xxii. 18.

[31] For details of witch trials in this island cf. Mrs. Lynn Linton’s _Witch Stories_, passim.

[32] _Knowledge Library._

[33] Vide _Chips_, ii. 1-146.

[34] Cf. Professor Keane’s Appendix to Sir A. C. Ramsay’s _Europe_, p. 557

[35] Cf. “Little Saddlehurst” in Mr. Geldart’s _Folk-Lore of Modern Greece_, p. 27.

[36] Cf. on this matter Whitney’s _Oriental and Linguistic Studies_, p. 203.

[37] _Mythology of the Aryan Nations_, i. 108.

[38] _Mental Physiology_, p. 315.

[39] Spenser says--

“Such, men do _changelings_ call, so changed by fairies’ theft.”

[40] An Algonquin legend begins: “In old times, in the beginning of things, men were as animals and animals as men; how this was, no one knows.”--Leland’s _Algonquin Legends_, p. 31.

[41] And cf. Bourke’s _Snake Dance of the Moquis_, passim.

[42] Cf. Mahaffy’s _Prolegomena to Ancient History_, p. 392.

[43] Vol. i., Trübner and Co. See for some valuable illustrations from early English and other sources an article by Rev. Dr. Morris, in _Contemp. Rev._, May 1881, and the _Folk-Lore Journal_, 1884-85, for translations of Jâtakas, also by Dr. Morris.

[44] _Travels in N.W. and W. Australia_, ii. 229.

[45] Bourke’s _Snake Dance of the Moquis_, p. 136.

[46] Cf. Art. “Family,” _Encyclopædia Britannica_.

[47] _De Bell. Gall._, v. c. 12.

[48] _Elton’s Origins of English History_, p. 297.

[49] _Germania_, ix. 10.

[50] _Principles of Sociology_, p. 413.

[51] _Edinburgh Review_, Jan. 1869, p. 134. Article on Rilliet’s “Origines de la Confédération Suisse: Histoire et Légende.”

[52] _Times’_ telegram from Geneva, June 25, 1883.

[53]