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The Homeric Hymns - A New Prose Translation; and Essays, Literary and Mythological by Andrew Lang
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{66} The anthropomorphic view of the Genius of the grain as a woman
existed in Peru, as I have remarked in "Myth, Ritual, and Religion," i.
213. See, too, "Golden Bough," i. p. 351; Mr. Frazer also notes the Corn
Mother of Germany, and the Harvest Maiden of Balquhidder.

{67} "Golden Bough," p. 351, citing from Mannhardt a Spanish tract of
1649.

{68} Howitt, on Mysteries of the Coast Murring (_Journal Anthrop.
Instit_., vol. xiv.).

{69} De Smet, "Oregon Mission," p. 359. Tanner's "Narrative" (1830),
pp. 192-193.

{72} Pater, "Greek Studies," p. 90.

{74a} "Africana," i. 130.

{74b} _Journal Anthrop. Instit_. (1884), xiii. pp. 444, 450.

{74c} _Op. cit_., xiv. pp. 310, 316.

{75} "New South Wales," by Barren Field, pp. 69, 122 (1825).

{76a} Aristophanes, _Ranae_, 445 _et seq_.; Origen. _c. Cels_., iii. 59;
Andocides, _Myst_., 31; Euripides, _Bacch_, 72 _et seq_. See Wobbermin,
_Religionsgeschitliche Studien_, pp. 36-44.

{76b} Wobbermin, _op. cit_., p. 38.
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