Note 1345 — Chapter VII · INCARNATE HUMAN GODS

D. Chwolsohn, Die Ssabier und der Ssabismus, ii. 37; Lettres édifiantes et curieuses, xvi. 230 sq.; E. T. Atkinson, The Himalayan Districts of the North-Western Provinces of India, ii. (Allahabad, 1884) p. 827; Panjab Notes and Queries, iii. p. 171, § 721; North Indian Notes and Queries, i. p. 3, § 4; W. Crooke, Popular Religion and Folklore of Northern India (Westminster, 1896), i. 263; Indian Antiquary, xxviii. (1899) p. 161; Journal of the Anthropological Society of Bombay, i. 103; S. Mateer, The Land of Charity, p. 216; id., Native Life in Travancore, p. 94; E. T. Thurston, Castes and Tribes of Southern India, iii. 466, 469; Sir A. C. Lyall, Asiatic Studies, First Series (London, 1899), p. 19; J. Biddulph, Tribes of the Hindoo Koosh, p. 131; P. S. Pallas, Reisen in verschiedenen Provinzen des russischen Reiches, i. 91; H. Vambery, Das Türkenvolk, p. 485; Erman, Archiv für wissenschaftliche Kunde von Russland, i. 377; “Über die Religion der heidnischen Tscheremissen im Gouvernement Kasan,” Zeitschrift für allgemeine Erdkunde, N.F. iii. (1857) p. 153; Globus, lxvii. (1895) p. 366. When the Rao of Kachh sacrifices a buffalo, water is sprinkled between its horns; if it shakes its head, it is unsuitable; if it nods its head, it is sacrificed (Panjab Notes and Queries, i. p. 120, § 911). This is probably a modern misinterpretation of the old custom.