Note 259.1 — Chapter XI · NOTES
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Congress Report (1891), 249, et seqq. Cf. the Apache ceremony of spitting in a hole made in the ground at concluding a peace. iii. Journ. Am. F.L., 54. I add a few references here in support of the opinion that the saliva contains the life, and the recipient’s life is enhanced by a portion of the giver’s. The examples given subsequently in the text are directed to the further point raised in the following paragraph. iii. Am Urquell, 9, 54, 56, 58; iv. 170, 274; v. 20; Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 548; vi. Mélusine, 251; Blunt, 166; Marcellus, viii. 166, 172, 191; ix. 107; xxxvi. 70; Finamore, Trad. Pop. Abruz., 79, 135, 170, 191, 203; De Mensignac, 80, et seqq.; iv. Zeits. des Vereins, 84; i. Rivista, 222. (Cf. Zanetti, 59, 63; Von den Steinen, 335; Hodgkinson, 227.)