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Miss Busk gives a free adaptation rather than a translation of the German version, "Sagas," p. 315. Prof. De Gubernatis, "Zool. Von Hahn, vol. ii. p. 225; "Tour du Monde," vol. xxi. p. 342, quoted by Liebrecht, p. 105. "Panjab N. and Q." vol. iii. pp. 41, 115; "Journal Ethnol. Soc. London," N. S., vol. i. p. 98. The information relating to the Bona Dea has been collected by Preller, "Röm.
All such things may have happened and bear no such a priori marks of impossibility as speaking animals, flying through the air, and similar incidents of the folk-tale pure and simple. Ethnol. Mr.
This description was afterwards given briefly in his "History of the Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations." Jesuit Relations for 1636, pp. 129-139. See translation in Thomas's "Burial Mounds of the Northern Section of the United States," Fifth Annual Rept. Bur. Ethnol., p. 110.
Ethnol. Of stone structures built by fairies or little people for the use of others, may be mentioned the churches built by dwarfs in Scotland and Brittany, and described by Mr. MacRitchie, as also the two following instances, taken from widely distant parts of the globe.
"F. L. Journal," vol. vii. p. 318; Pitré, vol. iv. pp. 391, 410. A variant given by Prof. Basset, p. 161, quoting Bresnier, "Cours de langue Arabe." In a Maya story given by Dr. "Journ. Ethnol. Soc." N. S., vol. ii. p. 26; Giles, passim; Brauns, p. 388. "Y Cymmrodor," vol. v. p. 94. Map, Dist. ii. c. 11. Map, Dist. ii. c. 12. "Y Cymmrodor," vol. iv. p. 201.
Norris, and Herr Koelle wrote abundant nonsense. Its origin is still unknown. My belief is that the suggestion came from the Moslems. Of late years it has been waxing obsolete, and few care to write their letters in it. The Vái, who extend as far as Little Cape Mount River, are depicted in a contrast of extremes. Mr. Ethnol.
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