Note 757 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 4)

Fison and Howitt, Kamilaroi and Kurnai, p. 250; A. W. Howitt, “On Australian Medicine Men,” Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xvi. (1887) pp. 26 sq.; id., Native Tribes of South-East Australia, pp. 366 sq. According to one account a cross should be made in the footprint with a piece of quartz, and round the footprint thus marked the bones of kangaroos should be stuck in the ground. See R. Brough Smyth, Aborigines of Victoria, i. 476 sq. These and many of the following examples were cited by me in Folklore, i. (1890) pp. 157 sqq. For more instances of the same sort see E. S. Hartland, The Legend of Perseus, ii. (London, 1895) 78–83.