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Scientific Essays and Lectures

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  • Title: Scientific Essays and Lectures
  • Author : Charles Kingsley
  • Release Date : January 23, 1875
  • Genre: Essays,Books,Science & Nature,
  • Pages : * pages
  • Size : 118 KB

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The superstitious man, according to him, after having washed his hands with lustral water--that is, water in which a torch from the altar had been quenched--goes about with a laurel-leaf in his mouth, to keep off evil influences, as the pigs in Devonshire used, in my youth, to go about with a withe of mountain ash round their necks to keep off the evil eye. If a weasel crosses his path, he stops, and either throws three pebbles into the road, or, with the innate selfishness of fear, lets someone else go before him, and attract to himself the harm which may ensue. He has a similar dread of a screech-owl, whom he compliments in the name of its mistress, Pallas Athene.


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