Chapter V

[1] _Ancient Greek Religion, and Modern Greek Folk-Lore_, J. C. Lawson, gives some most interesting evidence as to modern survivals of mythological beliefs.

[2] _Wald und Feld-Kulte_, 2nd edition, 2 vols., Berlin, 1904. Cf. Vol. II. p. 286. _The Golden Bough_, 3rd edition, 5 vols.

[3] I cite from Mannhardt, as the two works overlap in the particular line of research we are following: the same instances are given in both, buyt the honour of priority belongs to the German scholar.

[4] _Op. cit_. Vol. I. p. 411.

[5] See G. Calderon, ‘Slavonic Elements in Greek religion,’ _Classical Review_, 1918, p. 79.

[6] _Op. cit_. p. 416.

[7] _Op. cit_. pp. 155 and 312.

[8] _Op. cit_. p. 353.

[9] _Op. cit_. p. 358.

[10] _Op. cit_. p. 358.

[11] _Op. cit_. p. 359. Cf. the Lausitz custom given _supra_, which Mannhardt seems to have overlooked.

[12] In the poem, besides the ordinary figures of the Vegetation Deity, his female counterpart, and the Doctor, common to all such processions, Laubfrosch, combining the two first, and Horse. Cf. Mannhardt, _Mythol. Forsch_. pp. 142-43; _Mysterium und Mimus_, pp. 408 _et seq_.; also, pp. 443-44. Sir W. Ridgeway (_op. cit_. p. 156) refers slightingly to this interpretation of a ‘harmless little hymn’—doubless the poem is harmless; until Prof. von Schroeder pointed out its close affinity with the Fertility processions it was also meaningless.

[13] _Op. cit_. Chap. 17, p. 253.

[14] Cf. _Folk-Lore_, Vol. XV. p. 374.

[15] _Op. cit_. Vol. V. _The Dying God_, pp. 17 _et seq_.

[16] See Dr Seligmann’s study, _The Cult of Nyakang and the Divine Kings of the Shilluk_ in the Fourth Report of the Wellcome Research Laboratories, Kkartum, 1911, Vol. B.

[17] Cf. Address on reception into the Academy when M. Paris succeeded to Pasteur’s _fauteuil_.