Note 100 — L. THE PERSISTENCE OF FILTH REMEDIES
Reading edition
The word “carmen” shown to be the origin of “charm,” by Grimm.—(“Teut. Mythology,” vol. iii. p. 1035.)
The same derivation is given by Webster and other authorities.
In the Samoan islands “When offerings were eaten in the night by dogs or rats, it was supposed that the god chose to become incarnate for the time being in the form of such living creatures.”—(“Samoa,” G. Turner, London, 1884, p. 25.)