Modern Mythology

Chapter 24

{183b} Dalton, op. cit.

{184} Codrington, Journal Anthrop. Inst.i.tute, x. iii. For America, compare Relations de la Nouvelle France, 1674, p. 13.

{185} The connection between the Moon and the Hare is also found in Sanskrit, in Mexican, in some of the South Sea Islands, and in German and Buddhist folklore. Probably what we call "the Man in the Moon" seemed very like a hare to various races, roused their curiosity, and provoked explanations in the shape of myths.

{186} Hahn, Tsuni-Goam, p. 150.

{187} Codrington, op. cit, p. 304.

{188} Codrington, op. cit.

{190a} Bastian, Heilige Sage.

{190b} Primitive Culture, i. 336.

{194} Kuhn, Die Herabkunft der Feuers und der Gottertranks. Berlin, 1859.

{195a} Herabkunft, pp. 16, 24.

{195b} Dupret, Paris, 1886. Translation by M. Parmentier.

{195c} Pliny, Hist. Nat. xiii. 22. Bent. Cyclades.

{196a} Servius ad Virg., Eclogue vi. 42.

{196b} Australian Legendary Tales. Nutt: London, 1897. Mrs. Parker knows Australian dialects, and gives one story in the original. Her tribes live on the Narran River, in New South Wales.

{196c} Bosquet, La Normandie Merveilleuse. Paris, 1845.

{196d} Journal Anthrop. Inst.i.tute, November, 1884.

{197} Odyssey, v. 488-493.

{198} References for savage myths of the Fire-stealer will be found--for the Ahts, in Sproat; for the tribes of the Pacific coast, in Bancroft; for Australians in Brough Smyth"s Aborigines of Victoria.

{201} Trubner, Strasburg, 1897.

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