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made to drink liquor.91 Mourners among all high-caste Hindus shave the head except the top knot. So among the Kanara Sênvis, when a denth happens, the chief mourner shaves his fnco and lend, except the top-knot.83 The Belgaum Marathậs shave the face after & denth, and wrapping a piece of gold with the shaven bair born it in the funeral pyre.83 Among higirer class Hindus, after shaving, a man or a woman is considered unclean, and will not eat or touch anything. This is, perlaps, because they are specially liable to be attacked by spirits as the hair is about, and a spirit may settle in it, and so in the person. So it was important to take care of the parings of nails and hair-clippings. Originally the idea seems to have been that spirite would pass through them into the owner, afterwards it was thought that the magician would work with them. So the ancient Persians drew a circle round parings of nails and hair-clipping, and poured earth on them.84 Among the Kois of Bastar the white or harmless wizards let their hair grow, and become inspired by performing a quick dance.85 In South India, Lingayats sometimes carry a ling in the hair,88 and a man who has been troubled by an evil spirit lets his hair and nails grow for a year, and then offers them to a goddess.87 The Kol women, like the old Greek women, when they wish to become possessed, walk up a hill with their hair loose.88 The dying Beni-Isra'il is shaved, except the face. Spirits enter through the bair. So the Parsi corpse-bearers have to wash their hair in human urine. The Parsis believe that spirits gather wherever hair and nails are left.91 They believe that there is a great danger, unless the bair and nails are buried with prayers, that evil spirits will feast on them and work sorcery with them.92 Young men offered their hair at the temple of Syria.93 The Burmans wash their head only once a month, because the Burmans, and especially the people of Pega, believe that frequent washing destroys and irritates the genius who dwells in the head and protects men. The young Burmans, on entering into a monastery, get their locks cat off, Japanese children have little patches of hair left tied with strings of ribbon.96 Some Papuans of New Guinea turn their black wool or frizzle light red by rubbing it with barnt coral or wood ashes.97 The hair-dress of early tribes is perhaps spiritual. The Wagogos of East Africa twist their wool into countless strings, which they braid with baobab fibre, and at the end tie little brass balls and coloured beads.es The Mandingos of Africa cat the child's hair and spit into its face. Zula women leave a small tuft on the crown of the head.100 Among the North American Indians many tribes cat their hair after a death. The mention that the Dakotas after cutting the hair rub the head with white earth, suggests that the object was to keep off spirits. On the other hand, in some cases, the cutting off the hair was a sacrifice; 80 in North America, the Nebraska Indians bound locks of women's hair with the body. Otber North American tribes wore their hair matted and dishevelled. Among the North American Indians several tribes also keep a look of hair as the ghost of the dead. In this case the hair is kept as # memorial. In the Sandwich Islands, in 1799, to stop a volcano, the king out his holy hair and threw it into a river. The Peruvians pulled a hair ont of the eye-brows in worshipping. The Greek bride offered a lock to Aphrodite. Till B. C. 300 the Romans never cat the hair. Among the Romans there was (A.D. 100) 8
31 Op. cit. Vol. XXIII. P. 94.
* Op. cit. Vol. XV. p. 165. # Op. cit. Vol. XXI. P. 127.
# Dabistan, Vol. I. p. 317. * Jour. R. A. Soc. Vol. XIII. p. 416.
* Dubois, Vol. I. p. 157. Op. cit. VOL. II. p. 376.
# Tylor's Primitius Culture, VOL. II. p. 261. # Bombay Gazetteer, Vol. XVIII. p. 532
9Bleek's Vendidid, p. 70. 1 Bleek's Avesta Vendidad, p. 124.
91 Op. cit. p. 124
# Inman, Vol. II. p. 791. * Shway Yoe's The Burman, Vol. II. p. 92.
Op. cit, Vol. L p. 87. * St. John's Nipon, p. 194.
Earl's Papuans, p. 5. Cameron's Acron Africa, Vol. I. p. 97.
Tylor's Primitive Culture, Vol. II. p. 431. 200 Gardiner's Zulu Country, p. 100.
1 Among the tribes who out their hair short are the Dakotas (p. 161), Ionuits (p. 167), Californians (p. 151), and the Pinas (p. 99). - First Rep. Ethno. Com. Amer. 1880.
. First Report of Ethnology. Washington, p. 166. Op. cit. p. 159. • Op. cit. pp. 98, 185.
Op. cit. pp. 108, 160. • Spencer's Principles of Sociology, Vol. I. p. 291. Pliny's Natural History, Book vii., Chap. 19,
