Tom Tit Tot; An Essay On Savage Philosophy in Folk-Tale
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1 Henderson 2 says that in Scotland ' the little one's safeguard is held to lie in the placing of some article of clothing belonging to the father near the cradle, ' while in South China a pair of the father's trousers are put near the bedstead, and a word-charm pinned to them, so that all evil influences may pass into them instead of harming the babe, 3 and in New Britain a charm is always hung in the house to secure the child from like peril. 4 In Ruthenia it is believed that if a wizard know...s a man's baptismal name he can transform him by a mere effort of will. Parkyns says that it is the custom in Abyssinia ' to conceal the real name by which a person is baptized, and to call him only by a sort of nickname which his mother gives him on leaving the church. The baptismal names in 1 Vol. Ii. P. 143. 2 Folk-Lore of the Northern Counties, p. 14. 3 Dennys, Folk-Lore of China, p. 13. 4 Journal, Anthrop. Institute, 1889, p. 293. INTANGIBLE THINGS 93 Abyssinia are those of saints, such as Son of St.
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