{121} This action was practised by the Zulus in divination, and,
curiously, by a Highlander of the last century, appealing to the dead
Lovat not to see him wronged.

{124} A folk-etymology from [Greek text] = to rot.

{127} A similar portent is of recent belief in Maori tradition.

{133} See Essay on this Hymn.

{136} In our illustration both the lyre with a tortoise shell for
sounding-board, and the cithara, with no such sounding-board, are
represented. Is it possible that "the tuneful shell" was primarily used
_without_ chords, as an instrument for drumming upon? The drum,
variously made, is the primitive musical instrument, and it is doubted
whether any stringed instrument existed among native American races. But
drawings in ancient Aztec MSS. (as Mr. Morse has recently observed) show
the musician using a kind of drum made of a tortoise-shell, and some
students have (probably with too much fancy) recognised a figure with a
tortoise-shell fitted with chords, in Aztec MSS. It is possible enough
that the early Greeks used the shell as a sort of drum, before some
inventor (Hermes, in the Hymn) added chords and developed a stringed
instrument. _Cf_. p. 39.

{138} Such sandals are used to hide their tracks by Avengers of Blood
among the tribes of Central Australia.

{140} This piece of wood is that in which the other is twirled to make
fire by friction.