Note 108 — LECTURE III. Primitive Religious Expression: in the Word.

This subject has been discussed by Andree, Ethnographische Parallelen, pp. 165-184, and other writers. On the “name soul” among the American Indians I have collected material in Myths of the New World, p. 277, sq. Most American and Australian tribes would not name the dead. On the other hand, in the robust religion of the ancient Germans, the names of the loved departed and of great chiefs were shouted out at the banquets, and a horn drained to their minni, affectionate memory. J. Grimm, Teutonic Mythology, vol. i., p. 59.