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See the articles devoted to these castes in my "Castes and Tribes of Southern India," 1909.

B. Govinda Nambiar, Indian Review, May, 1900.

M. J. Walhouse, "Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 22.

"Report of the Chemical Examiner, Madras," 1908, 5.

Journ. and Proc. Asiat. Soc., Bengal, 1905, i. No. 9.

Rev. A. C. Clayton, Madras Museum Bull., 1906, v., No. 2, 82.

Cf. odi cult, 228-9.

"Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 22.

Gloyer, Jeypore, Breklum, 1901.

"Gazetteer of the Bellary District," 1904, i. 60.

"Gazetteer of the South Arcot District," 1906, i. 93.

"Gazetteer of the Tanjore District," 1906, i. 76.

Journ. Anthrop. Soc., Bombay, ii. 1890, 282-5.

Indian Review, May, 1900.

Journ. Royal Asiat. Soc., 1884, xvi. 185-6.

For a detailed account of demonolatry among the Shanans, I would refer the reader to the Rev. R. (afterwards Bishop) Caldwell's now scarce "Tinnevelly Shanans," 1849.

Madras Museum Bull., 1900, iii., No. 1, 51.

Madras Mail, 18th November, 1905.

An example of so-called homoeopathic magic. See Haddon, "Magic and Fetishism" (Religions ancient and modern), 1906, 19-22.

"Ind. Ant.," 1876, v. 22.

Laccadiveans come to the Malabar coast in sailing-boats.

Nature, 18th October, 1906.

Madras Mail, 18th November, 1905.

F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1901, iii., No. 3, 317.

Madras Mail, 19th November, 1897.

In like manner, the chief mourner at the funeral among many castes, after breaking a water-pot at the graveside, retires without looking back.

F. Fawcett, Madras Museum Bull., 1900, iii., No. 1, 51.

"Gazetteer of the Madura District," 1906, i. 103.

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