Bk. i, c. xiv.

Cronica Mexicana. See picture of Axayacatl in Boban’s catalogue of the Goupil collection, Paris, 1891, pp. 14, 15.

The best authority on Xipe’s costume is Sahagun (Mexican MS.).

Baring-Gould, Curious Myths of the Middle Ages, pp. 417 ff.

Sahagun, bk. v, c. xiii.

Werenfels, Dissertation upon Superstition, p. 6 (London, 1748). Bancroft, Native Races of the Pacific States, vol. ii, pp. 719 ff.

Roscher, Über Selene und verwandtes (Leipzig, 1890), pp. 49 ff.

Pliny, Nat. Hist., vol. ii, p. 223; Payne, Hist. New World, vol. i, p. 495.

Or calpulli, a muster-place at several festivals.

“They who seize the head,” alluding to the custom of taking the victims by the hair.