Note 196 — PART II. MYTHOLOGY AND FOLK-LORE.
Reading edition
Thomas Gage, A New Survey of the West Indiès, pp. 377 et seq. (London, 1699). The Abbé Brasseur is willing to consider these tales fictitious, “supposé qu’ils n’eussent eu, en realité, aucune communication avec les puissances du monde invisible,” about which, however, he is evidently not altogether sure.—Voyage sur l’Isthme de Tehuantepec, p. 175 (Paris, 1862).