Note 96 — XLIX. THE WORSHIP OF COCKS AND HENS.

Copious references to color-symbolism will be found in the works of Von Helmont (p. 1060); Frazer, “Totemism;” J. Owen Dorsey; Dr. W. J. Hoffman; Black, “Folk-Medicine;” Pettigrew, “Medical Superstitions;” Andrew Lang, “Myth, Ritual, and Religion;” Garrick Mallery, and many others; also in an article entitled “Notes on the Cosmogony and Theogony of the Mojaves of the Colorado River,” published in the “Journal of American Folk-Lore,” July-September, 1889, by the author of this volume. In the last it is shown that the idea in the aboriginal mind is that each color is a medicine, and that the rainbow, being a combination of them all, is a panacea; but it should be pointed out that, even in the days of Dr. Joseph Lanzoni (1694) there were some bold medical scholars who openly derided such notions as absurd and irrational.