J. Campbell, op. cit. p. 126. The elephant represented the Earth Goddess herself, who was here conceived in elephant-form (Campbell, op. cit. pp. 51, 126). In the hill tracts of Goomsur she was represented in peacock-form, and the post to which the victim was bound bore the effigy of a peacock (Campbell, op. cit. p. 54).
761
S. C. Macpherson, op. cit. p. 130. In Mexico also the tears of the human victims were sometimes regarded as an omen of rain (B. de Sahagun, Histoire générale des Choses de la Nouvelle Espagne, traduite par D. Jourdanet et R. Simeon, Paris, 1880, bk. ii. ch. 20, p. 86).
762
E. T. Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, p. 288, referring to Colonel Campbell's Report.
763
S. C. Macpherson, op. cit. p. 129. Compare J. Campbell, op. cit. pp. 55, 58, 113, 121, 187.
764
J. Campbell, op. cit. p. 182.
765
S. C. Macpherson, op. cit. p. 128; E. T. Dalton, Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, p. 288.
766
J. Campbell, op. cit. pp. 55, 182.
767
J. Campbell, op. cit. p. 187.
768
E. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India (Madras, 1909), iii. 381-385.
769
J. Campbell, op. cit. p. 112.
770
S. C. Macpherson, op. cit. p. 118.
771
Above, pp. 239 (#x_22_i5), 240 (#x_22_i7), 244 (#x_22_i13).
772
Above, p. 134 (#x_14_i8).
773
Above, pp. 134 (#x_14_i8), 157 (#x_15_i30)sqq.
774
Above, p. 223 (#x_21_i35).
775
Above, p. 224 (#x_21_i37).
776
Above, p. 170 (#x_16_i41), with the references in note 1; Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 195-197.
777
See above, p. 217 (#x_21_i17).
778
Above, p. 224 (#x_21_i37).
779
W. Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen, p. 5.
780
H. Pfannenschmid, Germanische Erntefeste (Hanover, 1878), p. 98.
781
Above, p. 217 (#x_21_i17). It is not expressly said that he was wrapt in a sheaf.
782
Above, pp. 225 (#x_21_i37)sq., 229 (#x_21_i41)sq.
783
See The Dying God, pp. 160 sqq.
784
See Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Second Edition, pp. 231 sqq., 239 sq.
785