The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-12

who has been deserted by her lover, will take some of his hair and put it into the mouth of toad, or she will tie it around one of the legs of the batrachian. Then she puts the ani-
 nal under an iron pot, or she ties him to tree. or she digs a hole in the
 ground and lines it with tiles, so that
 the toad cannot get away, and as he slowly perishes her faithles lover Will
 also perish and pine and die finally, un-
 les he repent him of his misdeeds and
 come back to her arms, when the toad
 is set free. Of this class of custom
 there is again an infinite variety It
 shows that, in the pouplar mlnd, there
 is mysterious connection between the
 person and the things which belong to
 that person. It is on this account that
 the gift of lock of hair was esteemed
 so precious in those olden days when
 our grandfathers wrote the romance of
 the racen1en. For with it, man or Wo-
 man gave all theirselves into the keep
 ing of the other For it must be re-
 merlbered that this custom arose at a
 time when this thought was much
 stronger in the race brain than it is
 now.
 And even now there are sections Of
 earth where men and women pay close attention to what happens to that which
 they have taken from their own per sons. In the province of Lucca the
 women, when cobing their hair, never
 throw the combings out of the window lest they be bewitched by some one
 passing by. Dr. Pitre remembers a
 woman at Palermo who, when she was lying sick, having seen man pick up one of her hairs-as she thought, with malicious intent--jumped out of bed and followed him weeping and begging, that he should return it to her and not work her harm through it. The Turks are careful of he parings of their fin- gernails and of the combings of the hair, for similar reason, though this is sometimes attributed by Christian historians to the idea tha Turks believe in he resurrection of the physical body and that they therefore preserve every portion of the body that would other wise be thrown aside, so as to have all that belongs to them in the resurrec- tion.
 In Tuscany the hair is sometimes boiled in a pot, and the original owner of it has things made hot for him, in this way In Friuli the hair and some of the blood of the victim is boiled with nails needles, knives and other iron ware. and the victim has a hard time of it in that way. Even in H0ne parts of England a girl who has been forsak- en by her lover will be advised to get of I, ie h,iT nd hOil While if is simmering in the pot he finds no rest. 1 In Belgium, and also in the neighbor- | hood of Mentone, it is possible to be- witch an enemy by putting one of his | hairs in an egg and leaving it there un- til both rot. The enemy will then have all sorts of unpleasant experiences.
 It is this idea that any part of the | physical economy of a person has the same value as the whole that has given value to the excretions at times. and lies at the bottom of the queer habit If the gamin and the cokney of sitting )n coin to establish ownership. And nto this catalogue would pass no less han HOO various customs, which can oe traced to the mental habit of the ace, to learn things in some occult and hidden way and to express them by symbolic action.
 A careful comparison of the various tories involving these factors gives the 'esult that the race mind has thus sub consciously acquired three distinct ruths. The first relates to the fact hat there is a sense of proprietorship O be established between man and his 'elongings-th whatever is done to hem is done to him. This will be as the basis of the recogni- ion of mans relation to his wife, to his louse and to his property in any form 'he second is that the race mind has lways subconsciously realized the fact 1 hat the part is of the same nature as he whole calling attention to a familiar { Bible statement "inasmuch as ye have ( one it to the least of these, ye have { one it to Me" And the third is the ( act that the race mind has always ' admitted that there is a (