CHAPTER 4: THE PROVINCE OF THE IMMOLATED KINGS

[Back to Note 1] Leo Frobenius, Märchen aus Kordofan. Atlantis, Vol. IV. (Jena: Eugen Diederichs, 1923), pp. 9-17. [This is indeed the same Darfur in Western Sudan where a near-genocide of the indigenous tribes — the people of Kush, according to this tale — occured in Sudan during the on-going (as of 2018) civil war. — Editors]

[Back to Note 2] Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca historica III.5-6.

[Back to Note 3] Frobenius, op. cit., p. 19.

[Back to Note 4] Cf. Joseph Campbell, “Editor’s Introduction,” A Thousand and One Nights (New York: Joseph Campbell Foundation, 2017), p. 22, citing John Payne, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night (London, 1882-1884), kVol. IX, pp. 261-392.

[Back to Note 5] Jeremiah Curtin, Myths and Folklore of Ireland (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1890).

[Back to Note 6] Standish H. O’Grady, Silva Gadelica (London: Williams and Norgate, 1892).

[Back to Note 7] Joseph Campbell, “Folkloristic Commentary,” Grimm’s Fairy Tales (New York: Pantheon Books, k1944), p. 833, citing Johannes Bolte and Georg Polivka, Anmerkungen zu den Kinder- und Hausmarchen der Bruder Grimm (Leipzig, 1912- 1932), Vol. IV, pp. 443-44.

[Back to Note 8] ‘Ali Abu-l Hasan ul-Mas’udi, Marujudh-Dhahab (Les Prairies d’or), C. Barbier de Maynard and Pavet de Courteille, eds., 9 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Imperiale, 1861-1877), Vol. 4, pp. 89-90.

[Back to Note 9] Frobenius, op. cit., p. 22.

[Back to Note 10] Ibid., pp. 20-21.

[Back to Note 11] Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough (one-volume edition; New York: The Macmillan Company, 1922), p. 267.

[Back to Note 12] Frobenius, Monumenta Africana, pp. 318-22.

[Back to Note 13] Duarte Barbosa, Description of the Coasts of East Africa and Malaabar in the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century (London: The Hakluyt Society, 1866), p. 172; cited by Frazer, op. cit., pp. 274-75.

[Back to Note 14] Leo Frobenius, Schicksalskunde im Sinne des Kulturwerdens (Leipzig: R. Voigtlanders Verlag, 1932), p. 127.

[Back to Note 15] Leo Frobenius, Monumenta Terrarum: Der Geist uber den Erdteilen. Erlebte Erdteile, Bd. VII (Frankfurt am Main: Forschungsinstitut fur Kulturmorphologie, 1929), 392-94, citing, among others, E. Pechuel-Losche, Volkskunde von Loango (Stuttgart: Strecker und Schroder, 1907)l, pp. 155-92, who, in turn, cites O. Dapper, Beschreibung von Afrika (1668) and the Abbot Proyart (1776).