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 CORRESPONDENCE.

Women Fertilized by Stones.

With reference to my paper " Jacob and the Mandrakes," published in the Proceedings of the British Academy, Mr. W. Mackenzie, Procurator Fiscal of Cromarty, writes me from Dingwall (lOth September, 1917) as follows: "We are not without some traces and traditions of phallic worship here. There is a stone in the Brahan Wood which is said to be a ' knocking stone.' Barren women sat in close contact upon it for the purpose of becoming fertile. It serves the purpose of the mandrake in the East. I have seen the stone. It lies in the Brahan Wood about three miles from Dingwall."

J. G. Frazer.

Nature Myths from Samoa.

Folk-Lore, xxvi. 172; xxviii. 94.

Rev. E. E. V. Collocott, who forwarded the second collection of these tales through Rev. E. Brown, writes that they were collected in Tonga by the late l^r. J. E. Moulton.

ERRATUM. Vol. xxix. p. 144, line 7, after "these aie " insert " not.