Note 36 — Chapter IV · LAKE TITICACA AND THE CENTRAL ANDES

Abundant evidence on this subject may be found in Mr. J. G. Frazer's Golden Bough. In Cornwall and Ireland sacred wells still receive offerings. I once met a French peasant who believed in were-wolves and knew one; and I remember as a boy to have been warned by the peasants in the Glens of Antrim to beware of the water spirit who (under the form of a bull) infested the river in which I was fishing.