Foundation Rites With Some Kindred Ceremonies; a Contribution to the Study of Beliefs, Customs, And Legends Connected With Buildings, Locations, Landmarks, Etc., Etc.
Foundation Rites With Some Kindred Ceremonies; a Contribution to the Study of Beliefs, Customs, And Legends Connected With Buildings, Locations, Landmarks, Etc., Etc.
Burdick, Lewis Dayton
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* Myths of the New World, p. 163, note. • Principles of Sociology , vol. i., p. 791. 12 Digitized by Google 178 Foundation Rites. blood was the life, 1 and by it, or its substitutes, the favor and protection of the indwelling spirit was assured, or it might be conceived as vivifying the stone itself. One of the means by which a tutelary deity known as the suhman is procured, among some African tribes, is by taking red earth and mixing a paste of it with blood, into which the red tail-feathers o...f a parrot are stuck. The suhman possesses supernatural powers. It protects houses from fire, guards against accidents, and brings death to its owner's enemies, or to the enemies of him to whom the use of the suhman has been permitted.* Bed-painted stones set at the foot of the sacred Vata- tree protect children in India, and a row of stones daubed with red paint set up in the field act as its guard- ian.* The Gonds kidnapped Brahman boys for sacrifi- cial victims for the sowing and reaping, sprinkling their blood over the plowed field or the mature crop.
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