[134.6] B. W. Schiffer. in iv. Am Urquell, 74.
[134.7] Hershon, Talmudic Miscellany (Boston, 1880), quoted by Bourke, 347. Compare the reason for the Australian native’s objection to passing under a leaning tree, or to being stepped over, when lying down, by a woman. iii. Curr, 179; ii. 301.
[135.1] Aulus Gellius, x. 15.
[135.2] iv. Sacred Books of the East, 186.
[136.1] xxx. Sacred Bks., 164, 62. Cf. iii. N. Ind. N. and Q., 190.
[136.2] i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 76.
[136.3] ii. Mitford, 266. So, too, in Korea, “old gentlemen keep a little bag in which they assiduously collect the combings of their hair, the strokings of their beard, and parings of their nails, in order that all that belongs to them may be duly placed in their coffin at death.” Griffis, 271.
[137.1] Wilken, Haaropfer, 52, 50, 51.
[137.2] De Mensignac, 9, citing Anne Raffenel, Nouveau Voyage dans les Pays des Nègres, and Hovelacque, Les Nègres de l’Afrique sus-Equatoriale. Mungo Park, 246, also describes the ceremony, but does not mention the special point now under consideration.
[137.3] Dorsey, Omaha Sociology, 249.