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INDEX.

A.

• Abgott, 105.
• Achaians, 180.
• Achilleis, Mr. Grote's theory of, 187.
• Achilleus, 20, 24, 112, 187, seq.
• Adeva, 121.
• Aditi, 104, 110.
• Adonis, 25, 204.
• Agamemnon, 19, 187, seq., 200.
• Agassiz, his belief in the immortality of lower animals, 231.
• Agni, 110.
• Ahana, 20.
• Aharyu, 20, 121, 196.
• Ahi, 58, 114, 118.
• Ahmed and the Peri Banou, 30, 43, 49.
• Ahriman, 121.
• Ahuramazda, 121.
• Aias, 193.
• Aineias, 193.
• Aithiopes, 199.
• Aladdin's ring, 45; his request for a roe's egg to hang in the dome of his palace, 50.
• Aleian land, 50.
• Alexandrian library, 15.
• Alexikakos, 117.
• Allegorical interpretations of myths inadequate, 21, 214.
• Ambrosia, 63.
• American culture-myths, 152; sun-catcher-myth, 170; tortoise-myth, 172.
• Amrita, 63.
• Analogical reasoning among savages, examples of, 217.
• Animism, 215.
• Anro-mainyas, 121.
• Anteia, 205.
• Antigone, 115.
• Antiquity of man, 176.
• Antwerp, 71.
• Aphrodite, 18, 28, 30, 190, 204.
• Apollo and the Messiah, 203.
• Apsaras, 96.
• Arabian Nights, 11,13, 36, 43, 50, 99, 111, 239.
• Argive as an epithet, 202.
• Argonauts, 133.
• Arkadians, 73.
• Arktos, 73.
• Armida's gardens, 30.
• Artemis, 18, 28, 190.
• Aryan immigration into Europe, 197.
• Ash-tree dreaded by venomous snakes, 61.
• Ass delivered from enchantment by old coat, 101.
• Association of ideas variously illustrated in scientific and in barbaric thought, 216.
• Astarte, 25, 204.
• Astyages, 114.
• Athene, 20, compared by Mr. Gladstone to the Logos, 203.
• Auerbach's cellar, 124.
• Autolykos, 71.
• Aymar, Jacques, 38, 40.
• Azidahaka, 114.

B.

• Baba Abdallah, 43.
• Babel, 72.
• Baga, 104.
• Bagaios, epithet of Zeus, 104.
• Balder, 25.

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• Banier, Abbé, 15.
• Barbaric and Aryan myths, 149.
• Barbarossa, 26, 201.
• Baring-Gould, 7, 17, 26, 29, 40, 43, 51, 80, seq.
• Bazra, 71.
• Belisarius, 15.
• Bellerophon, 19, 205.
• Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, 43.
• Berserkir madness, 79, 89.
• Beth-Gellert, 7.
• Bhaga, 104.
• Bishop Hatto, 34, 72, 227.
• Blue-beard, 60.
• Boabdil, 26.
• Bog, Bogie, 104.
• Boots, 9; his eating-match with the Troll, 131.
• Brahman and goat, 12.
• Bréal, Michel, 116.
• Bridge of souls, 48.
• Bridge of the dead, 151.
• Brisaya, 20, 196.
• Briseis, 20, 196.
• Brunehault, 201.
• Brynhild, 132.
• Bug-a-boo and Bugbear, 104.
• Byrsa, 71.

C.

• Cacus, 117, 121.
• Cæcius, 117, 121.
• Cannibalism, abnormal: tailor of Châlons, 81; beggar of Polomyia, 82; Jean Grenier, 83; Jacques Roulet, 84.
• Cannibals (in Zulu folk-lore) and Trolls, 165.
• Cardinal points, 160.
• Carib lightning-myth, 169.
• Carvara, 20, 124.
• Cassim Baba, 43.
• Cat-woman, 91.
• Catalepsy, 78, 222.
• Catequil the thunder-god, 65.
• Cattle of Helios, 116, 119.
• Celestinus and the Miller's Horse, 125.
• Châlons, tailor of; 81.
• Changelings, 86.
• Charis and Charites, 190.
• Chark, 62.
• Charlemagne, 26, 199, seq.
• Charon's ferry-boat, 49; obolus in funeral rites, 234.
• Chateau Vert, 72.
• Chesterfield, Lord, his remark about the capriciousness of the human mind, 218.
• Chimaira, 114.
• Clerk and Image, 59.
• Cloud-maidens, 96.
• Clouds as cows, 19, 49; as birds, 50; as mountains or rocks, 54.
• Cows as psychopomps, 49.
• Cox, G. W., 9, 14, 89, 193, 197, 211.
• Creation of man, 65.
• Cushna, 118.
• Cyrus, legend of his infancy, 114.

D.

• Dagon, 19, 24.
• Dahana, 113.
• Dancers of Kolbeck, 27.
• Danish legend of Tell, 3.
• Daphne, 113.
• Daras, 71.
• Dasyu, 113.
• Davy's locker, 124.
• Dawn as detector of crimes, 57, 210.
• Day swallowed by Night, 77.
• Death misinterpreted by savages, 75.
• Demoniacal possession, 237.
• Deva, 107.
• Devil and walnut, 36; etymology of, 106; in mediæval mythology, 123-129; a profound scholar according to Scotch divines, 124; blillded like Polyphemos, 125; his gullibility, 125, seq.
• Dewel, Gypsy name for God, 105.
• Dido and the ox hides, 71, abandoned by Aineias, 111.
• Dietrich, 201.
• Diocletian's ostrich, 44.
• Diomedes, 193.
• Dionysos, 124.
• Divining-rod, 37, 55, 64.
• Dog howling under the window, 35, 76.

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• Dogs, how far capable of fetichistic notions, 221.
• Don Carlos, 22.
• Dorians in Peloponnesos, 180.
• Dousterswivel, 37.
• Dreams, primitive philosophy of, 219.
• Drowning man ought not to be rescued, 215.
• Durandal, 24.
• Dyaus, or Dyaus-pitar, 20, 50, 52, 107, 108.

E.

• East of the sun and west of the moon, 98.
• Echidna, 58, 114.
• Echoes fetichistically explained, 224.
• Ecstasy, 222.
• Eden-myth, 122.
• Efreets, 123.
• Egeria, 30.
• Egil, 5, 24.
• Eleanor, wife of Edward I., 22.
• Eleven thousand virgins, 28.
• Elixir of life, 63.
• Elizabeth, Hungarian countess, 80.
• Elizabeth, wife of Philip II., 22.
• Elves, 96.
• Embodiment, theory of, 226.
• Endymion, 25, 161.
• England, the land of ghosts, 28.
• Eos, 198.
• Epimenides, 26.
• Epimetheus, 64.
• Erceldoune, Thomas of, 30.
• Erinys, 57, 114, 123, 210.
• Erlking, 31, seq.
• Erotic virtues of lightning-plants, 65.
• Es-Sirat, 48.
• Esquimaux moon-myth, 162.
• Etymological myths, 70.
• Etzel, 201.
• Euhemeros, 15.
• Eumenides, 223.
• Euphemisms for dreaded beings, 223.
• Eurykleia, 25.
• Eurystheus, 112, 169.
• Evil, Jewish conception of, 122.
• Excalibur, 24.

F.

• Fafnir, 132.
• Fairies degraded by Christianity, 129.
• Faithful John, 9, 142.
• Farid-Uddin Attar, 5.
• Fasting, origin of the practice in savage philosophy, 237.
• Faust, black dog which appeared in his study, 124.
• Feather-dresses, 98.
• Fena and Phoinix, 71.
• Fenrir, 77.
• Fern-seed, 44
• Fetches, 228.
• Figuier, Louis, his fancies concerning metempsychosis, 231.
• Fiji theory of souls, 18; of the second death, 230.
• Fingal, 71.
• Fish, in the tale of Sindbad, 172.
• Fisherman and Efreet, 36.
• Foi scientifique, 39.
• Folliculus, 7.
• Forget-me-not, 42.
• Forty Thieves, 42.
• Four a sacred number, 160.
• Freeman, E. A., his view of the Trojan War, 199, seq.
• Freischütz and Devil, 127.
• Frere's "Old Deccan Days," 10.
• Freudenberger, Uriel, 3.
• Frodi and his quern, 66.
• Funeral sacrifices illustrating theory of object-souls, 233.
• Furies, 57, 123.

G.

• Gaia, 198.
• Gambrinus, 128.
• Gandharvas, 95.
• Garcilaso de la Vega, 112.
• Gellert, 6.
• Gertrude, 34.
• Gessler, 2.
• Gesta Romanorum, 7, 44, 94, 125.
• Ghost, geist, etymology of, 225.
• Giant who had no Heart in his Body, 9, 132, 146, 163, 227.

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• Giants or Trolls as uncivilized prehistoric Europeans, 130.
• Gladstone, W. E., his "Juventus Mundi," 174, seq.; maintains the unity of the Homeric poems, 181, seq.; his uncritical views of ancient history and legend, 191; his ignorance of comparative mythology, 203; unsoundness of his philology, 206.
• Glaukos, 199.
• Glaukos and Polyidos, 60.
• Glistening Heath, 132.
• Gnat and Shepherd, 7.
• God, etymology of, 105, 198.
• Golden Fleece, 133.
• Gorgon's head, 58.
• Graiai, 50.
• Grateful beasts, 9.
• Great Bear, 73.
• Grenier Jean, 83, 90.
• Grote, G., his theory of the structure of the Iliad, 187.
• Guilliman, his work on Swiss antiquities, 3.
• Gunadhya, 33.
• Guodan, 105.
• Gyges, ring of, 44.

H.

• Hagen, 24.
• Hair of werewolf growing inward, 89.
• Hamelin, piper of, 31.
• Hamlet, 195.
• Hand of glory, 45, 56.
• Hare-lip, 161.
• Harold Blue-tooth, 4.
• Harold Hardrada, 5.
• Harpies and swan-maidens, 164.
• Hassan of El-Basrah, 13.
• Hatto (Bishop), 34, 72, 227.
• Heartless Giant, 9, 132, 146, 163, 227.
• Hektor, 189.
• Helena, 20, 121, 196.
• Helios, oxen of, 205.
• Hellenes, 180.
• Hemingr, 5, 24.
• Hephaistos and Aphrodite, 65, 190; and Devil, 124.
• Herakleids, legend of, 179, 192.
• Herakles, 15, 24, 112, 169.
• Herakles and Geryon, 117.
• Heraldic emblems, 78.
• Hercules and Cacus, 22, 116, seq.
• Here, 19.
• Hermes, 19, 20, 32, 35, 67, 124, 204.
• Hesperides, 15.
• Hildesheim, monk of, 26.
• Hindu practice of self-immolation for purposes of revenge, 75.
• Historic period, beginning of, 177.
• Hitopadesa, 12.
• Holda, 35.
• Holy water, 63.
• Homer, birthplace of, 178.
• Homeric poems, date of, 179; Wolfian hypothesis, 181; unity of style, 185; not analogous to ballad poetry, 186; artistic structure, 187; unhistorical character, 191.
• Homerids, 183.
• Hörsel, 28.
• Hörselberg, 29.
• Houris, 102.
• Hyperboreans, garden of, 114.

I.

• Ida, 114.
• Iliad, its structure, according to Grote, 187.
• Ilsenstein shepherd, 41.
• Indian summer, myth of, 25.
• Indra, 109, seq., 196.
• Indra Savitâr, 56.
• Invisibility from use of talismans, 44.
• Iokaste, Iole, and Iamos, 113.
• Iole, 19, 196.
• Ioskeha, 156.
• Iris, 204.
• Itshe-likantunjambili, 168.
• Ixion, 19, 50.

J.

• Jack and Jill, 28, 213.
• Jack and the Beanstalk, 23, 33, 79, 151, 163, 168.
• Jack the Giant-killer, 130.

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• Jacolliot, "Bible in India," 205.
• Jewish notion of the firmament, 48.
• Jinn, 129, 239.
• Jonah and the whale, 77.
• Joseph of Arimathæa, 27.
• Joseph and Zuleikha, 205.
• Jötuns, 129.
• Jupiter, 20, 108, 117.

K.

• Kaikias, 117.
• Kalypso, 30, 111.
• Kamtchatkan lightning-myth, 169.
• Karl the Great, 200.
• Kasimbaha, 163.
• Kelly, W. K., on lightning-myths, 49, 62, 66.
• Kennedy, P., his Irish legends, 86, 101, 136.
• Kerberos, 20, 124.
• Kinships among barbaric myths, 150.
• Kirke, 111.
• Koroibos, Olympiad of, 177.
• Krilof's Fables, 7.
• Kuhn's "Descent of Fire," 47; his theory of myths not incompatible with Max Müller's, 119.

L.

• Labe, Queen, 111.
• Lad who went to the North Wind, 67.
• Lady of Shalott, 49.
• Laios, 112.
• Lancashire witch bequeaths her soul to a friend, 226.
• Lapps as giants or Trolls, 130.
• Latium, 72.
• Leichnam, 102.
• Leopard and Ram, 131.
• Leto, 198.
• Lightning-birds, 51, 168.
• Lightning-myths in barbaric folk-lore, 168, seq.
• Lightning-plants, 40, 44, 55, 61.
• Llangeller, 7.
• Lotos-eaters, 50.
• Loup-garou, 69.
• Luck-flower, 43.
• Lykson, 69.
• Lykegenes, 71.
• Lykians, 73, 199.

M.

• Maitland, blasphemous remark of, 104.
• Malay swan-maidens, 162.
• Malleus Maleficarum, 5.
• Man in the Moon, 27.
• Manabozho, 153.
• Mandara, or Manthara, 63, 171.
• Manes-worship, 74, 236.
• Maori divination with Venus and moon, 218.
• Mara, 93, seq.
• Maréchal de Retz, 80.
• Master Thief, 11, 35.
• Maui, 67, 169.
• Max Müller, his theory of mythology inadequate, 135, 210.
• Medeia, 111.
• Medusa, 58, 114.
• Meleagros, 19, 24, 112.
• Melusina, 96.
• Memnon, 199.
• Merchant of Louvain and Devil, 126.
• Merlin, 26.
• Mermaid's cap, 100.
• Mermaids foretokening shipwreck, 103.
• Metempsychosis, 74, 230, seq.
• Mice and rats as souls, 33.
• Michabo, 25, 73, 153.
• Milesian, soubriquet for the Irish, 71.
• Milky Way, 151.
• Mirror, when broken, portends a death in the family, 217.
• Mishkat-ul-Másábih, 22.
• Mitra, 110.
• Moon and hare, 161.
• Moon-myths among barbarians, 161.
• Moon-spots, 27.
• Mother Goose, 27.
• Mouse Tower, maut-thurm, 34, 72.
• Muri-ranga-whenua, 169.
• Mykenai, its ancient supremacy in Greece, 200.
• Myth, definition of, 21, seq.

N.

• Names, savages unwilling to tell them, 223.
• Nausikaa, 102.
• Necklace of swan-maiden, 99.
• Nectar, 63.
• Nephele, 133, 196.
• Nessos-shirt, 24.
• Nestor, 193.
• Nibelungenlied, 132; as illustrating Iliad, 201.
• Nibelungs, 196.
• Nick, as epithet of the Devil, 124.
• Niebuhr's views concerning words common to Greek and Latin, 206.
• Night-and-morning-myth resembles storm-myth, 119.
• Night-folk, 129.
• Nightmare, 93.
• Nixy and her glove, 99.
• Not a Pin to choose between them, 128.
• Numa, 30.
• Nymph, 97.

O.

• Oberon, horn of, 33.
• Odin, 32, 35, 67, 105, 124; his golden ship, 49; his magic cudgel, 67, 217.
• Odin, lord of the gallows, 56.
• Odysseus, 23, 25, 30, 53, 111.
• Oidipous, 22, 60, 112.
• Oinone, 19, 113.
• Olaf, Saint, 132.
• Olaf Tryggvesson, 26.
• Olger Danske, 26.
• Olympiad of Koroibos, 177.
• Omar, 15.
• Oracle-possession, 237.
• Ormuzd, 121.
• Orpheus, 32, 124.
• Orthros, 118.
• Ossa and Pelion, 54.
• Other self, primitive doctrine of, 219, seq.

P.

• Palmatoki, 3, 24.
• Pan, his relationship to the Devil, 124.
• Panch Phul Ranee, 61.
• Panehatantra, 7.
• Panis, 20, 58, 118, 120, 196.
• Paris, 20, 193; invested with solar attributes, 195, 198.
• Parizade, 11.
• Patroklos, 189.
• Paul Pry, 36.
• Pavilion given by the Peri Banou to Ahmed, 49.
• Peisistratos, his recension of Homer, 181.
• Pelasgian theory of Niebuhr, 206.
• Penelope, 24, 111.
• Permanence in language and culture, conditions essential to, 149.
• Peter Schlemihl, 224.
• Phæthon, 19.
• Philip II., 22.
• Philological method, how far useful in the study of myths, 144, seq.
• Phœnician origin of the Irish, 71.
• Phoibos, 19.
• Phoibos Lykegenes, 71.
• Phoroneus, 65.
• Phrixos and Helle, 133.
• Pictures, animation of, 223.
• Piper of Hamelin, 31.
• Pitris, 76, 237.
• Pliny's account of springwort, 44.
• Polomyia, cannibal beggar of, 82.
• Polynesian sun-myth, 170.
• Polyphemos, his one eye, 50, 53; his blinding, 125.
• Poseidon, 204.
• Pramantha, 64.
• Primeval philosophy, 16, 18, 21, 47, 216.
• Princesses carried off by Trolls and Efreets, 132.
• Prometheus, 64.
• Puncher, 5.
• Punchkin, 10, 132, 146.
• Putraka, 13.

Q.

• Quetzalcoatl, 157.

R.

• Rain-water, mythical conception of, 63.
• Rainbow, 151, 204. .
• Rakshasa, 77.
• Rama and Luxman, 9, 142.
• Rattlesnakes afraid of ash-trees, 61.
• Red James, 100.
• Red Riding Hood, 77.
• Renan, E., his suggestion that an exploration of the Hindu Kush might throw light on the origin of language, 175.
• Retz, Maréchal de, 80.
• Rhampsinitos, 14.
• Rickard the Rake, 86.
• Riksha, 73.
• Rip van Winkle, 26.
• Robin red-breast, 71; wickedness of killing robins, 51, 214.
• Roc's egg, 50.
• Romulus as guardian of children, 237.
• Roulet, Jacques, 84, 90.
• Rousseau, J. J., his method of inquiring into the safety of his soul, 218.

S.

• Sacrifices, 233.
• Saktideva, 77.
• Samu and his brethren, 230.
• Sancus, 117.
• Sanskrit names of Greek deities, 20.
• Sarama, 20, 119, seq., 196.
• Sarameias, 20, 204.
• Saranyu, 57, 210.
• Sarpedon, 193, 199.
• Sassafras, 43.
• Satan, 122.
• Saxo Grammaticus, 3.
• Scaletta, 71.
• Scarlet fever, in Persian folk-lore, 239.
• Schamir, 43, 51.
• Scribe, his remark about the possible number of dramatic situations, 115, 133.
• Sculloge of Muskerry, 136-140.
• Sea of Streams of Story, 13.
• Seal-women, 100.
• Sebastian of Portugal, 26.
• Selene, 198; and Endymion, 161.
• Serpent in Eden, 122.
• Serpent's venom neutralized by ash-tree, 61.
• Sesame, 42, 168.
• Seven Sleepers, 26.
• Seyf-el-Mulook, 10.
• Shotover, 72.
• Siberian swan-maidens, 163.
• Siegfried, 24.
• Sieve of the Daughters of Danaos, 48.
• "Signatures," doctrine of, 55.
• Sigurd, 24, 132.
• Simoom, 239.
• Sindbad, his great fish, 172.
• Sioux, lightning-myth, 62.
• Sir Elidoc, 61.
• Sir Guyon, 59.
• Sirens, 32
• Sisyphos and his stone, 50.
• Skin-changers, 89.
• Skithblathnir, 49.
• Sky descending at horizon, 48.
• Sky-sea, 49.
• Skye-terrier and ball, 220.
• Slamming door, 229.
• Sleeping Beauty, 25.
• Snake leaves, 60.
• Snake of darkness, 114.
• Solomon, 43.
• Soma, 63.
• Somadeva, 13, 77.
• Song of sixpence, 212.
• Soul, quitting body during lifetime, 78; as shadow, 224, as breath, 225, seq.; resemblance to body, 228, seq.; killed over again, 230; souls of beasts, 230; of plants, 231; of inanimate objects, 232.
• Spencer, Herbert, on totemism, 74; on the doctrine of ghosts, 222.
• Spento-mainyas, 121.
• Sphinx, 22, 60, 114.
• Spirits, doctrine of, 225, seq.

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• St. George and the Dragon, 23.
• St. John's sleep at Ephesus, 26.
• Stars as missiles for stoning the Devil, 22; as angels' eyes, 76; as pitris, 76.
• Storm-myth, resemblance to dawn-myth, 119.
• Story-roots, 115.
• Succubus, monkish tale of, 94.
• Sun as prototype of Don Juan, 111.
• Sun-catcher-myths, 112, 169.
• Sun-myths, 23; why they are so numerous, 134.
• Sun-worship, 108.
• Sunset-clouds representing hell, 48.
• Suttee, not sustained by Vedic authority, 233; remarkable case of, in England, 234.
• Swan-maiden as psychopomp, 102.
• Swearing, Puritan horror of, 224.
• Symplegades, 54.

T.

• Tannhauser, 29.
• Tantalos, 73.
• Tawiskara, 156.
• Tell, William, 1-6, 15, 24, 239, 241.
• Te pi and Ukuhlonipa, or tabuing of chief's name, 223.
• Themis, 206.
• Thor, 19, 65, 124.
• Three Princesses of Whiteland, 12.
• Three Tells of Rütli, 26.
• Tithonos, 27.
• Tom of Coventry, 36.
• Tom Thumb, 77.
• Tortoise supporting world, 171.
• Totemism, 74.
• Trance, 78.
• Trolls, 129, seq.
• Trojan War, 20; elements of the myth found in the Vedas, 20, 120, 194; how far a sun-myth, 195; how far a genuine tradition, 199, seq.
• Tuesday, etymology of, 108.

U.

• Undine, 98.
• Unity of human culture, 149.
• Unkulunkulu, 236.
• Ursula, 28.
• Urvasi and Purûravas, 95.
• Usilosimapundu, 172.
• Utahagi, 163.
• Uthlakanyana, 166.

V.

• Valkyries, 19, 102.
• Valley of diamonds, 50.
• Van Diemen's Land, the home of ghosts, 28.
• Varuna, 50, 110.
• Vasilissa the Beautiful, 77.
• Venus, 25.
• Venusberg, 29.
• Viracocha, 156.
• Vittikâb, 33,124.
• Vivasvat, 110.
• Vivien, 26.
• Völsunga Saga, 132.
• Vritra, 114, 118, 120.
• Vulcan, 124.

W.

• Wainamoinen, 33.
• Wali and cook, 7.
• Wandering Jew, 27, 114.
• Waterspout, 239.
• Waxen image, necromancy with, 217.
• Wayland Smith, 5, 124.
• Werewolf, etymology of, 69; hallucination, 85; summary of the superstition, 88; enchantment variously cured, 90, 92; in South Africa, 164.
• Werewolves and witchcraft, 79, 91; in Aryan and barbaric folk-lore, contrasted, 165.
• White bear as bridegroom, 98.
• Why the sea is salt, 66.
• Wild Huntsman, 27, 33, 76.
• William of Cloudeslee, 5, 24.
• Wind-and-Weather, 132.
• Windows opened to let souls pass out, 76, 229.
• Winterthür, John of, 2.
• Wishbone, 55.

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• Wishrod, 66.
• Wolf of darkness, 77.
• Wolf girdle, 90.
• Wolfskin, 89.
• Wolfian hypothesis, 181.
• World-tortoise, 171.
• Wraiths, 228.

Y.

• Yama, 76.
• Yarrow and rue, 100.
• Yellow hair of solar heroes, 202.
• Yggdrasil, 65.
• Youth of the World, 175.

Z.

• Zendavesta, 121.
• Zeus, 20; etymology of, 107.
• Zeus Lykaios, 69.
• Zio, 108.
• Zohak, 114.
• Zulu folk-lore, 165-169.