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[1694] 1 Sam. xxviii; Isa. viii, 19.

[1695] Ezek. xxi, 26 [21] (King Nebuchadrezzar divines by teraphim).

[1696] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_, iii, 363 ff.; Daremberg and Saglio, _Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques et romaines_, article "Divination," p. 308.

[1697] 1 Cor. xv, 49; 2 Cor. v, 8; c.u.mont, _Astrology and Religion among the Greeks and Romans_, lecture vi.

[1698] Cranz, _Greenland_, i, 192 ff.; Rink, _Danish Greenland_, p. 142 f.

[1699] Brinton, _Cakchiquels_, p. 47.

[1700] Cf. Noldeke, article "Arabs (Ancient)" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, i, 667, 671.

[1701] Ellis, _Yoruba_, p. 56 ff.; id., _Ts.h.i.+_, p. 124 ff.

[1702] P. R. Gurden, article "Ahoms" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1703] Rivers, _The Todas_, p. 249 ff.

[1704] A. Bertrand, _La religion des Gaulois_, pp. 257, 259, 263.

[1705] Jastrow, _Religion of Babylonia and a.s.syria_, p. 341.

[1706] On Hebrew divination see articles "Divination" in Hastings, _Dictionary of the Bible_, and in the _Encyclopaedia Biblica_.

[1707] Deut. xiii, 1; xviii, 10.

[1708] The Hebrew text is doubtful, and its meaning is not clear; cf. Gray, "The Book Of Isaiah," in _The International Critical Commentary_.

[1709] Gen. xliv, 5.

[1710] Cf. Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_, ii, 1 ff., 62 ff.

[1711] _Timaeus_, 72.

[1712] Xenophon, _Memorabilia_, i, 3, 4: ta ?p? t?? ?e??

s?a???e?a.

[1713] Originally diviners from the flight of birds, but the area of their divinatory functions was gradually extended.

See Wissowa, _Religion der Romer_, p. 450 ff.; Fowler, _Religious Experience of the Roman People_, lecture xiii.

[1714] Charged with the interpretation of the entrails of sacrificed animals, and also of lightning and portents.

[1715] Wissowa, op. cit., p. 474.

[1716] Cf. above, -- 895 f.

[1717] This story (connected with Thebes) appears to represent some sort of protest against the Dionysiac cult when it was first brought to Greece; cf. Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Pentheus."

[1718] Cf. above, -- 927.

[1719] 1 Sam. xix, 24; cf. Mic. i, 8 ff.

[1720] Their "visions" sometimes show literary art (Ezek. xl ff.; Zech. i-viii).

[1721] Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Sibylla."

[1722] That is, she was not to be tolerated as a rival of the great oracular G.o.d.

[1723] Cf. Wissowa, _Religion der Romer_, pp. 239, 462 ff.

[1724] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_, ii, Index, s.v. _c.u.mes_.

[1725] Wissowa, _Religion der Romer_, p. 463; Fowler, _Religious Experience of the Roman People_, p. 339.

[1726] Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, x, 27 (in connection with Vergil's verses, _Eclogues_, iv, 13 f.); xxviii, 23 (the initial letters in _Sibylline Oracles_, viii, 268-309, giving a t.i.tle of Christ). So Eusebius, in his report of the Oration of Constantine, xviii; cf. Lactantius, _Divinae Inst.i.tutiones_, lib. i, cap. vi.

[1727] _Oracula Sibyllina_, ed. Alexandre (Greek text, with Latin tr.); ed. Friedlieb (Greek text, with German tr. and additions by Volkmann); ed. Rzack (critical Greek text); Terry, _The Sibylline Oracles_ (Eng. tr., blank verse).

[1728] On the att.i.tude of early Greek philosophers (Pythagoras, Democritus, Empedocles, Thales, Xenophanes) toward divination, and the relation of the latter to the idea of divine providence, see Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_, i, 29 ff.

[1729] See Chapter iii.

[1730] Cf. Barton, _Semitic Origins_, chap. i.

[1731] Cf. Breasted, _Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt_.

[1732] Fowler, _Religious Experience of the Roman People_, chaps. i, xvi.

[1733] Bertrand, _La religion des Gaulois_; Rhys, _Celtic Heathendom_; Usener, _Gotternamen_; articles "Celts" and "Aryan Religion" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1734] Cf. the sketch given above, Chapter vii; Tylor, _Primitive Culture_; Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., pa.s.sim.

[1735] Spencer and Gillen, _Native Tribes of Central Australia_, and _Northern Tribes of Central Australia_; Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_; Quatref.a.ges, _The Pygmies_; Hyades and Deniker, _Mission scientifique du cap Horn_; Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_.

[1736] Fritsch, _Die Eingeborenen Sud-Afrika's_; article "Bantu" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.

[1737] Callaway, _The Amazulu_.

[1738] See above, -- 837.

[1739] Rivers, _The Todas_.

[1740] Codrington, _The Melanesians_; W. Ellis, _Polynesian Researches_; Williams and Calvert, _Fiji_; Turner, _Samoa_; Kramer, _Die Samoa-Inseln_; Taylor, _New Zealand_; H. Ling Roth, _The Natives of Sarawak and British North Borneo_.

[1741] Brinton, _The Lenape_; Matthews, _Navaho Legends_; Dorsey, _Traditions of the Skidi p.a.w.nee_; Teit, _Thompson River Indians_; Boas, _The Kwakiutl_; Dixon, _The Northern Maidu_ and _The Shasta_; _Journal of American Folklore_, pa.s.sim.

[1742] Van Gennep, _Tabou et totemisme a Madagascar_; A.B.