Researches Into the Early History of Mankind And the Development of Civilization
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P. 44 ; vol. Ii. P. 295. Purchas, vol. Iv. P. 1339, J520, etc. Etc. Dobrizhoffer, vol. Ii. P. 72. Klemm, C. G. , vol. Ii. P. 169, 171-2. See Strabo, xv. 1, 22. 2 Regnard, ' Lapland, " in Pinkerton, vol. I. P. 163, 180. Ravenstein, p. 93. Molina, 'Hist, of Chile, " E, Tr. ; London, 1809, vol. Ii. P. 106. Falkner, 'Pata- gonia, ' Hereford, 1774, p. 117. See Baot. An, voL ii. P. 123. IMAGES AND NAMES. 139 medicine-man, has cast off the proper accompaniments of his trade, and juggles with fiddles a...nd accordions. The question whether there is any historical connexion among the superstitious practices of the lower races, is distinct from that of their development from the human mind. On the whole, the similarity that runs through the sorcerer's art in the most remote countries, not only in principle, but so often in details, as for instance in the wide prevalence of the practice of bewitching by locks of hair and rubbish which once belonged to the victim, often favours the view that these coincidences are not independent growths from the same principle, but practices which have spread from one geographical source.
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