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Rh 147. Impurity after shaving.

151. Calls of animals interpreted.

156. Messengers chosen, and letters marked, to show be the contents happy or no.

157. The Philosopher's Stone in Nepal.

159. Chittagong: folk-etymology of the name.

166. Dog's tongue burnt, and the ashes mixed with oil, cures any sore; for "dogs never die of any wound that they can lick."

167. To stop rain, put some rain-water in a pot and bury it. [Sympathetic]

207. Tansen the Singer: legends about him: he plays without instrument, the tune coming from his shoulders; by song he melts a stone, by song he collects the deer from the forest. (Cf. Orpheus.)

209. Folklore of Parrot, Water Wagtail, Grasshopper. 215. Of the Fire-fly; 217, the Squirrel; 224, the Bee.

214. Charm to call a demon (you wear a red garment at night).

219. Earth from a rat's hole as a remedy. [Rats are usually deemed unlucky.]

222. Ludhiana fair.—Cattle tied all night at a shrine for luck. [Symbolic offering?]

225. Youngest Son in Folklore: called "master of the house." [Possibly this superstition is referred to in the obscure lines of Hesiod, Op. 372-5: "Let there be a sole-born son to cherish the paternal home; for thus will wealth increase in your dwelling. But thou shouldest die old, leaving in it another son." Does this mean you are to kill all those between, keeping the first for work and the last for inheritance?]

227-S, 273, 277, 278, and others.—Charms.

267. Ludhiana: Sacred Groves.

283. Scorpion bite cured by application of the scorpion.

285. In old times when a man had to sell his son, he took him to market with a straw in his mouth, as a sign he was for sale. [The vision of men sucking straws, in our country fairs, will recur to the memory of many.]

W. H. D. R.