ving swallowed it, was seen by
Pausanias at Delphi (ix. 41). By the roadside, near the city of the
Panopeans, lay the stones out of which Prometheus made men (x. 4). The
stone swallowed in place of Zeus by his father lay at the exit from the
Delphian temple, and was anointed (compare the action of Jacob, Gen.
xxviii. 18) with oil every day. The Phocians worshipped thirty squared
stones, each named after a god (vii. xxii.). '_Among all the Greeks rude
stones were worshipped before the images of the gods_.' Among the
Troezenians a sacred stone lay in front of the temple, whereon the
Troezenian elders sat, and purified Orestes from the murder of his
mother. In Attica there was a conical stone worshipped as Apollo (i.
xliv.). Near Argos was a stone called Zeus Cappotas, on which Orestes
was said to have sat down, and so recovered peace of mind. Such are
examples of the sacred stones, the oldest worshipful objects, of Greece.

{226} See essays on 'Apollo and the Mouse' and 'The Early History of the
Family.'

{230} Here I may mention a case illustrating the motives of the fetich-
worshipper. My friend, Mr. J. J. Atkinson, who has for many years
studied the manners of the people of New Caledonia, asked a native _why_
he treasured a certain fetich-stone. The man replied that, in one of the
vigils which are practised beside the corpses of deceased friends, he saw
a lizard. The lizard is a totem, a worshipful animal in New Caledonia.
The native put out his hand to touch it, when it disappeared and left a
stone in its place. This stone he therefore held sacred in the highest
degree. Here then a fetich-stone was indicated as such by a spirit in
form of a lizard.

{233a} Much the same theory is propounded in Mr. Muller's lectures on
'The Science of Religion.'

{233b} The idea is expressed in a well known parody of Wordsworth, about
the tree which

'Will grow ten times as tall as me
And live ten times as long.'

{236} See Essay on 'The Early History of the Family.'

{241} Bergaigne's La Religion Vedique may be consulted for Vedic
Fetichism.

{247a} Early Law and Custom.

{247b} Studies in Ancient History, p. 127.

{248} Descent of Man, ii. 362.

{249} Early Law and Custom, p. 210.

{250a} Here I would like to point out that Mr. M'Lennan's theory was not
so hard and fast as his manner (that of a very assured believer in his
own ideas) may lead some inquirers to suppose. Sir Henry Maine wr