Note 773 — Chapter XI · ANIMISM. (continued 2)

Grimm, ‘Verbrennen der Leichen.’ A curious correspondence in the practice of cutting off a fowl’s head as a funeral rite is to be noticed among the Yorubas of W. Africa (Burton, ‘W. and W.’ p. 220), Chuwashes of Siberia (Castrén, ‘Finn. Myth.’ p. 120), old Russians (Grimm, ‘Verbrennen,’ p. 254).