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wear when they had no other clothing.71 The Dhôrs of Poona put a face-cloth on the dead.13 The Belgaum Kômtis, at their weddings, stretch a three-cornered cloth in front of the boy's house, and at a rich Mudliar's funeral a cloth is spread for the procession to walk on.73 When a high caste Dharwar girl comes of age, a washerman is called. He folds & cloth, draws coloured lines on it, spreads it in the makhar, or wooden frame, and the girl is made to sit on it.74 The Bijapur Brahmaņs, when a child is being named, apparently to keep spirits off the mother as that would affect the child, set her standing on a wooden stool with a cap on her head and with shoes on.75 A cloth is held between the bride and bridegroom in the Bijapur Ghisadi's wedding procession.76 In Bijapur Silvant and Holiyachibalki Lingayats cover their water-pots with a cloth.77 Among the Maratha Gavandis of Sholapur, the chief jaourner ties a piece of cloth across his shoulder and chest.78 When a Kánara Havig Brahman teaches a son the Gáyatri, or Sun-hymn, he covers himself and the boy with a cloth.70 Amony the Roman Catholics of Kanara, at their Baptism, the priest draws the end of his stole over the child's face, when he takes it into the church.80 When a Beni-Iara 'il babe is being circumcised, his father sits, praying, covered with a veil.81
Among the Bengal Kharwars women dance doubly veiled.82 In the Brahman marriage, in Bengal, Brihaspati, or the gods' teacher, is called on to guard children till they wear clothes.83 Iu Bengal, when a buffalo is sacrificed to Durga, a cloth is laid on its back.84 Gloves used to be worn by Parsi women in their monthly sickness, 85 and most Pârsi women cover their hair with a piece of cloth.86 Musalman women in Turkistân wear thick, dark, horse-hair veils.87
A Burman, when attacked with cholera has a cloth thrown over his face.89 In China, strips of cloth and paper are used to drive away spirits,89 and a strip of white or yellow cloth is sometimes hung at the end of streets to keep off spirits.90 Before 1868, the Japanese emperor used never to leave his palace or be seen. If he walked, as he rarely did, cloths were spread to keep him from touching the earth.91 The Shinto god at Mishima is a pole with bits of paper or rags fastened to it.03 Across the archway of the Shinto temple of Ine, in Japan, a simple white cloth or curtain hangs.83
The Nicobar people keep off spirits by putting up a screen made of pieces of cloth, which hides from their banefal sight the place where the houses stand.94 The Papuan mother covers her child with leaves when any stranger Tocks at it.95 The emperor of Uganda, in East Africa, has crimson and white standards.96 The disease spirit in Central Africa is put into a rug and carried to some tree, and there laid by nailing it into the tree-stem.97 Rag-trees are no specialty of Central Africa. They are common in India, Persia, Ethiopia, America, and Western Europe. 98
In Russia, to get rid of an ague, make a rag doll, whisper words, into it, and throw it somewhere where it will be noticed. Whoever picks up the rag will pick up the ague.90
11 Walhouse in Jour. Anthrop. Inst. Vol. V. p. 473. [So do Andamaneze when clothed in petticoats by Euro. Jan. -- ED.) 2 Rombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVIII. p. 435.
73 Op. cit. Vol. XXI. p. 98. ** Op. cit. Vol. XXII. p. 189. + Op. cit. Vol. XXIII. p. 84.
76 Op. cit. Vol. XXIII. p. 192. 57 Op. cit. Vol. XXIII. p. 221.
78 Op. cit. Vol. XX. p. 93. 59 Op.cit, Vol. XV. p. 124.
80 Op. cit. Vol. XV. p. 338. 81 Op.cit. Vol. XVIII. p. 528.
82 Dalton's Descriptive Ethnology of Bengal, p. 130. *: Colebrooke's Miscellaneous Essays, Vol. I. p. 213. 84 Ward's View of the Hindus, Vol. I. p. 117. Si Rarzet, 22nd August 1478.
86 From MS, notes. * Schuyler's Turkistus, Vol. I. p. 124.
88 Shway Yoe's The Burman, Vol. II. p. 110. 89 Gray's China, Vol. II. p. 32.
90 Op. cit. Vol. II, p. 32. 91 Reed's Japan, Vol. II. p. 301.
2 Op. cit. Vol. II. p. 301. 93 Op. cit. Vol. II. p. 247.
# Spencer's Principles of Sociology, Vol. I. p. 189. 95 Earl's Papuans, p. 49.
90 Stanley's Dark Continent, Vol. I. p. 391. 97 Op. cit. Vol. I. p. 143.
98 Tylor's Primitive Culture, Vol. II, p. 150. » Mes. Romanoff's Rites arul Customs of the Greco-Russian Church, p. 228.
