Note 1005 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER (continued 2)

D. Forbes, “On the Aymara Indians of Bolivia and Peru,” Journal of the Ethnological Society of London, ii. 237, note. On the supposed relation of the frog or toad to water in America, see further E. J. Payne, History of the New World called America, i. 420 sq., 425 sqq. He observes that “throughout the New World, from Florida to Chile, the worship of the frog or toad, as the offspring of water and the symbol of the water-spirit, accompanied the cultivation of maize” (p. 425). A species of water toad is called by the Araucanians of Chili genco, “which signifies lord of the water, as they believe that it watches over the preservation and contributes to the salubrity of the waters” (J. I. Molina, Geographical, Natural, and Civil History of Chili, London, 1809, i. 179).