Abstract
IN a recent paper (“Oceanic, American Indian, and African Myths of Snaring the Sun”, by Katharine Luomola, Bernice P. Bishop Museum, Bull. 168; 1940) the author has made an exhaustive study of myths and magical practices for sun snaring which she has collated and analysed. In each section the stories and processes are given in full and then compared with each other and with those of the other sections, and by this method possible centres of diffusion have been determined. There are striking similarities in some of the myths, for example, in the use of a woman's hair as a snare, which tale, with variations, seems to have diffused in Polynesia from the Society Islands, and in North America from the Lake Superior Ojibwa and the Menominee.
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