[145.2] Bourke, 425, 421. For further examples, see Ploss, ii. Kind, 221; Black, 39; Tylor, ii. Prim. Cul., 364. In reference to the case, cited from Bastian by Dr. Tylor, of the ceremony in Malabar for expelling a demon by flogging the patient to a tree, nailing him there by the hair, and then cutting him loose, it may be interesting to mention that, at a recent meeting of the Folklore Society, a nail with hair still attached was exhibited from Ceylon; and it was stated by the exhibitor that the usual practice was to tear the patient loose.
[146.1] Bourke, 413. A similar prescription used by the Transylvanian Saxons. Von Wlislocki, Siebenb. Sachs., 86.
[146.2] Pliny, Nat. Hist., xxviii. 23.
[146.3] ii. Witzschel, 273.
[147.1] Marcellus, xxxiii. 26. I have thought it needless to discuss the rite at length, as it is well known. In England, the tree usually chosen is an ash. The best account of the rite that I know is given by Gaidoz, Vieux Rite, 15. See also White, Nat. Hist. Selborne, letter xxviii. to Daines Barrington; Kuhn und Schwartz, 443; County Folklore, Suffolk, 26; Ploss, ii. Kind, 221; ii. Brand, 590. It is also in use for sick sheep. Grimm, Teut. Myth., 1816.
[148.1] A. F. Dörfler, in iii. Am Urquell, 269; Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Mag., 140.
[148.2] A. F. Dörfler, in iii. Am Urquell, 269. A parallel remedy is prescribed to heal a man of impotence. Von Wlislocki, Volksgl. Mag., 140. The strength of the dead man is here probably intended to pass into the living.
[148.3] Von Wlislocki, Siebenb. Sachs., 85, 97.
[149.1] Von Wlislocki, in iii. Am Urquell, 11.
[149.2] R. Scot, 222. Scot suggests, in one of his sarcastic asides, that Saint Mary “perhaps hath the curing thereof by patent.”