e Religion of the Semites_, pp. 159, 160.

[34] _Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, M. Jastrow, p. 88.

[35] _The Seven Tablets of Creation_, L.W. King, vol. i, p. 129.

[36] _Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria_, M. Jastrow, p. 88.

[37] _Cosmology of the Rigveda_, Wallis, and _Indian Myth and Legend_, p.
10.

[38] _The Old Testament in the Light of the Historical Records and Legends
of Assyria and Babylonia_, T.G. Pinches, pp. 59-61.

[39] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, T.G. Pinches, pp. 91, 92.

[40] _Joshua_, xv, 41; xix, 27.

[41] _Judges_, xvi, 14.

[42] _I Sam_., v, 1-9.

[43] _I Sam_., vi, 5.

[44] _The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia_, R. Campbell Thompson,
London, 1903, vol. i, p. xlii.

[45] _The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia_, R. C. Thompson, vol. i, p.
xliii.

[46] _A History of Sumer and Akkad_, L. W. King, p. 54.

[47] _The Gods of the Egyptians_, E. Wallis Budge, vol. i, p. 290.

[48] _The Gods of the Egyptians_, vol. i, p. 287.

[49] _The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia_, vol. i, _Intro_. See also
Sayce's _The Religion of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia_ (Gifford
Lectures, 1902), p. 385, and Pinches' _The Old Testament in the Light
of Historical Records_, &c., p. 71.

[50] _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 100.

[51] Maspero's _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 156 _et seq._

[52] _Egyptian Myth and Legend_, p. I _et seq._ The saliva of the frail and
elderly was injurious.

[53] _Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection_, E. Wallis Budge, vol. ii, p.
203 _et seq._

[54] _Brana's Popular Antiquities_, vol. iii, pp. 259-263 (1889 ed.).

[55] _The Religion of the Semites_, pp. 158, 159.

[56] _Castes and Tribes of Southern India_, E. Thurston, iv, 187.

[57] _Omens and Superstitions of Southern India_, E. Thurston (1912), pp.
245, 246.

[58] Pausanias, ii, 24, 1.

[59] _Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia_, R.C. Thompson, vol. ii, tablet
Y.

[60] _Animism_, E. Clodd, p. 37.

[61] _2 Kings_, xvi, 3.

[62] _Ezekiel_, xx, 31.

[63] _Leviticus_, xviii, 21.

[64] _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 65.

[65] _Religious Belief in Babylonia and Assyria_, M. Jastrow, pp. 312, 313.

[66] _The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria_, T.G. Pinches, p. 81.

[67] In early times two goddesses searched for Tammuz at different periods.

[68] _Indian Myth and Legend_, p. 30.

[69] _Early Religious Poetry of Persia_, p. 35.

[70] _Early Religious Poetry of Persia_, p. 37.