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common cure for bile, fainting, and headacce. At a Hindu wedding, a horn is blown when the lucky moment comes.40 The practice of blowing horns at weddings was formerly common; at present it is going out of fashion. 41 Among the Bharadis of Ahmadnagar, when a child's ears are bored, a shingi or horn, made of horn or of brass, is tied round the child's neck to be blown by the child before worshipping his gods or taking his food. The Lingayats of Bijapur in Srivan (July-August), the great spirit month, carry a long pole wound round with a coloured cloth and surmounted by a conical globe. They call this nandi-kodu, or Nandi's horn.43 In Coorg, at a festival, at which a man used to be sacrificed, rude dances are performed, in one of which the dancers wear the horns of the spotted deer. Naris, a Persian, had horns on his tiara; so also had the Assyrians.45 A small horn called corniculum was worn on a Roman helmet as a mark of honour.46 The Egyptian god Chnum wore ram's horos.47 The Jewish altar had horns. At each corner of the masonic altar is a horn.48 In the Bombay Dekhan the hêmádpanti, i.e., from seventh to eleventh century, Hindu temple roofs have horn-like bosses on the stones, and horns adorn the top of the spire of many Mahîdêra temples. The Roman horn of plenty is still a Freemasons' symbol.49 In China (in 1321), some women wore a great spike of horn on the forehead to shew they were married.50 Both among the fifth century White Huns of Central Asia, Persia, and India and among the later Huns of Asia and East Europe the women wore horns on their heads, a practice which was the origin of the fashionable highpeaked Hunische hats of fourteenth century Europe. Among the Druses of Lebanon the women wear silver horns.51 The women of one division of the wandering Vañjârâs of Western India wear a high horn-like spike of wood. The Sanangs, a wild Malay tribe, greatly prize rhinoceros' horn as a cure.62 The Dyaks of Borneo wear chips of deer horn as amulets and keep deer horns as talismans against sickness, death and defeat.53 A favourite charm in West Africa is a large horn filled with mud and bark, with three small horns at its lower end. This horn is believed to keep slaves from running away,54 The people of Madagascar consider the horns of cattle a symbol of strength. All horns are supposed to have a medical power like hart's horn,55 Pinto says that, while in South-West Africa, when stricken by a strong fever, the people covered him with amulets, his chest with horns of antelopes and his right arm with bracelets of crocodile teeth.56 Rhinoceros' horn is a great antidote of poison.57 The Bongos of the White Nile make horn-like points on their roofs.58 Bracelets of horn are worn by the Msuahili women of East Africa.59 The musicians at Dahomey wear horns.60 In Central Africa, a horn is used as a bleeding cup.cl
In England (1724), it was the practice to swear on the horns at Highgate near London.62 - The Italian traveller Della Valle (1623) tells of a piece of horn owned by the captain of the ship Dolphin, which was believed to be unicorn horn, because it was good against poison. In Eng. land, the husband of an adulteregs used to be described as wearing horns.84 The phrase, which is in use in French, German, Spanish and Italian, as well as in English, is that the unfaithful wife presents her husband with horns. This is a hard saying. The horns given by the wife cannot be the horns emblematic of power; they must be the guarding horns. Apparently, what
39 Information from Mr. P. B. Joshi,
4. Information from Mr. P. B. Joshi. 41 Information from Mr. P. B. Joshi.
+1 Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVII. p. 190. 13 Op. cit. Vol. XXIII, p. 229.
** Rice's Mysore, Vol. III. p. 265. 18 Jones' Coronations, p. 4.
46 Sunith's Greek and Roman Antiquities, Vol. I. p. 543. 47 Tiele's Egyptian Religion, p. 97.
+8 Mackay's Freemasonry, p. 15. 49 Op. cit. p. 64.
60 Yule's Cathay, Vol. I. p. iii. 01 Elworthy's The Evil Eye, p. 199; Smith's Dictionary of the Bible, Vol. I. p. 827. 12 Earl's Papuans, p. 154.
63 Featherman's Social History, Vol. II. pp. 282, 283. 4 Cameron's Across Africa, Vol. II. p. 219.
06 Sibree's Madagascar, p. 334, 16 Pinto's How I Crossed Africa, Vol. I. p. 285. BT Stanley's Barbosa, p. 101, + Schweinfurth's Heart of Africa, Vol. I. p. 277. 89 New's East Africa, p. 61. Burton's Visit to Dahomey, Vol. I. p. 213.
61 Park's Travels, Vol. I. p. 277. • Chambers's Book of Days, p. 118.
# Hakluyt Society Edition, Vol. I. pp. 4, 5, # From MS, notes,
