Chapter V.

Animals.

Animal demons distinguished--Trivial sources of Mythology--
Hedgehog--Fox--Transmigrations in Japan--Horses bewitched--
Rats--Lions--Cats--The Dog--Goethe's horror of dogs--Superstitions
of the Parsees, people of Travancore, and American Negroes, Red
Indians, &c.--Cynocephaloi--The Wolf--Traditions of the Nez Perces
--Fenris--Fables--The Boar--The Bear--Serpent--Every animal power
to harm demonised--Horns