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e, its constructors must have been in the exogamous stage of society. {169} Sampo _may_ be derived from a Thibetan word, meaning 'fountain of good,' or it may possibly be connected with the Swedish Stamp, a hand- mill. The talisman is made of all the quaint odds and ends that the Fetichist treasures: swan's feathers, flocks of wool, and so on. {170} Sir G. W. Cox's Popular Romances of the Middle Ages, p. 19. {171} Fortnightly Review, 1869: 'The Worship of Plants and Animals.' {176} Mr. McLennan in the Fortnightly Review, February 1870. {178} M. Schmidt, Volksleben der Neugriechen, finds comparatively few traces of the worship of Zeus, and these mainly in proverbial expressions. {183} Preller, Ausgewahlte Aufsatze, p. 154. {184a} Tylor, Prim. Cult., ii. 156. Pinkerton, vii. 357. {184b} Universities Mission to Central Africa, p. 217. Prim. Cult,, ii. 156, 157. {186} Quoted in 'Jacob's Rod': London, n.d., a translation of La Verge de Jacob, Lyon, 1693. {190} Lettres sur la Baguette, pp. 106-112. {200} Turner's Samoa, pp, 77, 119. {201} Cox, Mythol. of Aryan Races, passim. {202a} See examples in 'A Far-travelled Tale,' 'Cupid and Psyche,' and 'The Myth of Cronus.' {202b} Trubner, 1881. {203a} Hahn, p. 23. {203b} Ibid., p. 45. {204} Expedition, i. 166. {205} Herodotus, ii. {209} See Fetichism and the Infinite. {211} Sacred Books of the East, xii. 130, 131, {218} Lectures on Language. Second series, p. 41. {222} A defence of the evidence for our knowledge of savage faiths, practices, and ideas will be found in Primitive Culture, i. 9-11. {223} A third reference to Pausanias I have been unable to verify. There are several references to Greek fetich-stones in Theophrastus's account of the Superstitious Man. A number of Greek sacred stones named by Pausanias may be worth noticing. In Boeotia (ix. 16), the people believed that Alcmene, mother of Heracles, was changed into a stone. The Thespians worshipped, under the name of Eros, an unwrought stone, [Greek], 'their most ancient sacred object' (ix. 27). The people of Orchomenos 'paid extreme regard to certain stones,' said to have fallen from heaven, 'or to certain figures made of stone that descended from the sky' (ix. 38). Near Chaeronea, Rhea was said to have deceived Cronus, by offering him, in place of Zeus, a stone wrapped in swaddling bands. This stone, which Cronus vomited forth after ha
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