[264.1] De Mensignac, 12, quoting Anne Raffenel. Mr. Crombie cites from Burckhardt, a similar custom among the Bedouin. If a thief be caught and abused by the man he has wronged, and can manage to spit on another, the latter must defend him, even against a fellow-tribesman, and may kill the assailant in his defence. Congress Report (1891), 257.
[264.2] De Mensignac, 22. A similar record by Peters is quoted by W. Simpson, Sikh Initiation, 5.
[264.3] Paulitschke, 246. Cf. the Pueblo story of the reason why all the Hano can talk Hopí and none of the Hopitah can talk Hano. viii. Rep. Bur. Ethn., 36. The language of some of the lower animals is acquired in folktales elsewhere by the creature spitting into the hero’s mouth. In Ashango-land guests are given red powder to rub themselves with. Du Chaillu, Ashango-land, 341. This appears to be a modified form of the blood-covenant.
[265.1] Paulitschke, 206.
[265.2] De Mensignac, 9.
[265.3] Casalis, 306.
[265.4] Addy, 59.
[265.5] De Mensignac, 12, citing Réville. I have mislaid a reference to a more direct authority. Cf. the practice in the Cordilleras mentioned on p. 208.
[266.1] ii. Brand, 572 note. The practice is a very familiar one. A variant practice is to spit on the first money received in the New Year. This is also practised in France. De Mensignac, 69.
[266.2] Monseur, 90.