Note 337 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 2)

W. E. Roth, North Queensland Ethnography, Bulletin No. 5 (Brisbane, 1903), pp. 18, 23, §§ 68, 83. We are reminded of the old Greek saying to be born “of an oak or a rock” (Homer, Odyssey, xix. 163). See A. B. Cook, “Oak and Rock,” Classical Review, xv. (1901) pp. 322–326. In Samoa, a child sometimes received as his god for life the deity who chanced to be invoked at the moment of his birth, whether that was his father’s or his mother’s god. See G. Turner, Samoa, p. 79.