Custom and Myth

Chapter 14

{259} Kamilaroi and Kurnai. Natives call these objects their kin, "of one flesh" with them.

{260} Studies, p. 11.

{265a} O"Curry, Manners of Ancient Irish, l. ccclxx., quoting Trin. Coll. Dublin MS.

{265b} See also Elton"s Origins of English History, pp. 299-301.

{265c} Kemble"s Saxons in England, p. 258. Politics of Aristotle, Bolland and Lang, p. 99. {265d}

{265d} Mr. Grant Allen kindly supplied me some time ago with a list of animal and vegetable names preserved in the t.i.tles of ancient English village settlements. Among them are: ash, birch, bear (as among the Iroquois), oak, buck, fir, fern, sun, wolf, thorn, goat, horse, salmon (the trout is a totem in America), swan (familiar in Australia), and others.

{267} "Gentiles sunt qui inter se eodem nomine sunt. Qui ab ingeniis oriundi sunt. Quorum majorum nemo servitutem servivit. Qui capite non sunt deminuti."

{268} Studies in Ancient History, p. 212.

{270} Fortnightly Review, October 1869: "Archaeologia Americana," ii. 113.

{273a} Suidas, 3102.

{273b} Herod., i. 173.

{273c} Cf. Bachofen, p. 309.

{273d} Compare the Irish Nennius, p. 127.

{276} The ill.u.s.trations in this article are for the most part copied, by permission of Messrs. Ca.s.sell & Co., from the Magazine of Art, in which the essay appeared.

{286} Part of the pattern (Fig. 5, b) recurs on the New Zealand Bull-roarer, engraved in the essay on the Bull-roarer.

{289} See Schliemann"s Troja, wherein is much learning and fancy about the Aryan Svastika.