[142.2] Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 546. At Lesbos he throws it behind the oven, and asks the oven for an iron tooth to crunch marbles and eat biscuits. Georgeakis, 331. To the same order of ideas belongs the custom, said to prevail among the Hindus, of throwing their milk-teeth into a dung-pit and praying that their new teeth may grow as fast as a dung-heap does. i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 102, citing G. T. Lushington, in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1833.
[142.3] Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1797.
[143.1] iii. Am Urquell, 198, from the collection of Dr. Colerus of Berlin. The same remedy is prescribed by Etmuller (Opera, Lyons, 1690), quoted Bourke, 412. It is also mentioned by Pettigrew, 97.
[144.1] Liebrecht, in Gerv. Tilb., 245, quoting Thiers; vii. N. and Q., 8th ser., 6.
[144.2] ii. Brand, 589, citing Shaw, History of the Province of Moray.
[144.3] Tuchmann, in vi. Mélusine, 86.
[144.4] Ploss, ii. Kind, 221.
[144.5] Von Wlislocki, Siebenb. Sachs., 85.
[144.6] iii. Am Urquell, 198.
[145.1] i. Sax. Leechd., 333.