44
Ibid., sec. 630, p. 781, quoting Turner (Geo.), Nineteen Years in Polynesia.
45
Vol. 3, p. 176.
"In every part of the globe fragments of primitive languages are preserved in religious rites." Humboldt, Researches, London, 1814, vol. 1, p. 97.
"Et même Jean P. C., Prince de la Mirande, escrit que les mots barbares & non entendus ont plus de puissance en la Magie que ceux qui sont entendus." Picart, vol. 10, p. 45.
The medicine-men of Cumana (now the United States of Colombia, South America) cured their patients "con palabras muy revesadas y que aun el mismo médico no las entiende." Gomara, Hist. de las Indias, p. 208.
The Tlascaltecs had "oradores" who employed gibberish – "hablaban Gerigonça." Herrera, dec. 2, lib. 6, p. 163.
In Peru, if the fields were afflicted with drought, the priests, among other things, "chantaient un cantique dont le sens était inconnu du vulgaire." Balboa, Hist. du Pérou, p. 128, in Ternaux-Compans, vol. 15.
46
Assiniboine and Saskatchewan Exped., London, 1860, vol. 2, p. 155.
47
Cockayne, Leechdoms, vol. 1, p. xxx.
48
"The belief in the magic power of sacred words, whether religious formulas or the name of gods, was also acknowledged [i.e., in Egypt] and was the source of a frightful amount of superstition… The superstitious repetition of names (many of which perhaps never had any meaning at all) is particularly conspicuous in numerous documents much more recent than the Book of the Dead." – Hibbert, Lectures, 1879, pp. 192, 193.
49
Salverte, Philosophy of Magic, vol. 1, p. 134.
50
Kingsborough, lib. 2, vol. 7, p. 102.
51
Popular Antiquities, vol. 2, p. 70.
52
Ibid., p. 160.
53
Ibid., p. 217.
54
Ibid., p. 218.
55
Ibid., p. 219.
56
Ibid., pp. 214, 215.
57
Ibid., p. 216.
58
"When the Carriers are severely sick, they often think that they shall not recover, unless they divulge to a priest or magician, every crime which they may have committed, which has hitherto been kept secret." – Harmon's Journal, p. 300. The Carriers or Ta-kully are Tinneh.
59
For identical notions among the Arawaks of Guiana, Tupis of Brazil, Creeks, Patagonians, Kaffirs, Chiqnitos, and others, see the works of Schoolcraft, Herbert Spencer, Schultze, and others.
60
Extract from the Jesuit Falkner's account of Patagonia, in Voyages of the
61
"Nul de ces médecins ne peut mourir si'ls ne lui enlevent les testicules." Brasseur de Bourbourg, Trans. of Fra Roman Pane, Des Antiquités des Indiens, Paris, 1864, p. 451.
62
Hist. Gen., dec. 1, lib. 3, p. 69.
63
Madden, Shrines and Sepulchres, vol. 1, p. 14.
64
Gayarre, Louisiana; its Colonial History, p. 355.
65
Spencer, Desc. Sociology.
66
Balboa, Hist. du Pérou, Ternaux-Compans, vol. 15.
67
Davis, Conq. of New Mexico, p. 86.
68
Crónica Seráfica y Apostolica, Espinosa, Mexico, 1746, p. 421.
69
Desc. Sociology.
70
Mendieta, Hist. Eclesiástica Indiana, p. 136.
71
Ibid., p. 136.
72
Hist. de las Indias, p. 179.
73
Herrera, dec. 2, lib. 10, p. 260.
74
Ibid., dec. 3, lib. 4, p. 121.
75
Ibid., dec. 4, lib. 9, cap. 7, p. 188.
76
Keating's translation, p. 352, quoted by Samuel Farmar Jarvis, Religion of the Indian Tribes, in Coll. New York Historical Soc., vol. 3, 1819, p. 262.
77
Smith, Araucanians, pp. 238, 239.
78
Richardson, Arctic Searching Expedition, vol. 1, p. 366.
79
Schultze, Fetichism, New York, 1885, p. 49.
80
Spencer, Desc. Sociology.
81
Ternaux-Compans, vol. 7, p. 110.
82
Schultze, Fetichism, New York, 1885, p. 49.
83
Smithsonian Report for 1867.
84
Long's Expedition, Philadelphia, 1823, p. 238.
85
Hist. of the American Indians, p. 238.
86
Schultze, Fetichism, New York, 1885, p. 52.
87
Hist. de las Indias, p. 232.
88
Ternaux-Compans, vol. 7, pp. 114, 115.
89
Notes from Gomara, Hist. de las Indias, pp. 172-173.
90
History of California, vol. 1, p. 97.
91
Ternaux-Compans, vol. 10, p. 85.
92
Herrera, dec. 4, lib. 9, cap. 8, p. 188.
93
Smith, Araucanians, p. 234.
94
Bancroft, Native Races, vol. 1, p. 779.
95
Alegre, Historia de la Compañía de Jesus en Nueva-España, vol. 1, p. 401.
96
Desc. Sociology.
97
Kraskenninikoff, History of Kamtchatka and the Kurilski Islands, Grieve's translation, p. 219.
98
Ibid., p. 220.
99
Contributions to North American Ethnology, vol. 5.
100
Smith, Araucanians, p. 233.
101
Dr. Edwin G. Meek, Toner Collection, Library of Congress.
102
Lieut. Pettit in Jour. U. S. Mil. Serv. Instit., 1886, pp. 336-337.
103
Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, vol. 1, p. 155.
104
Dennys, Folk Lore of China, p. 57.
105
"Chinigchinich" in Robinson's California, pp. 271, 272.
106
The reader interested in this matter may find something bearing upon it in Diego Duran, lib. 1, cap. 36, p. 387; Torquemada, Mon. Indiana, lib. 9, cap. 3; Venegas, History of California, vol. 1, p. 105; Gomara, Conq. de Mexico, p. 443; Herrera, dec. 4, lib. 8, p. 158; Maximilian of Wied, p. 431, and others; The "pelucas" mentioned of the Orinoco tribes by Padre Gumilla would seem to be nothing more than feather head-dresses; p. 66.
107
Tribes and Languages of Costa Rica, Proc. Am. Philos. Soc., Philadelphia, 1875, p. 503.
108
Corbusier, in American Antiquarian, Sept., 1886, p. 279.
109
Source of the Nile, p. 567.
110
Vol. 2, p. 193.
111
Ensayo Cronologico, p. 139.
112
For the Shamans of Kodiak, see Lisiansky, Voyage, London, 1814, p. 208; for the Mexicans, Padre José