A similar custom, with the omission of the stinging, is reported of the Tamanaks in the region of the Orinoco.
At Giggenhausen and Aufkirchen, two other villages of Upper Bavaria, a similar custom prevailed, yet with some interesting differences.
A similar custom prevailed in the neighbouring department of Deux-Sevres; but here it was the priest who kindled the bonfire, and old men used to put embers of the fire in their wooden shoes as a preservative against many evils.
A similar custom appears to prevail at Thebes;(324) it used to be observed by the Macedonian peasantry, and it is still kept up at Therapia, a fashionable summer resort of Constantinople.
We did not learn the object of this practice, but Nordenskioeld, who observed a similar custom at Pitlekaj, was informed that it was to keep the leads from closing.
If this be so, it is a remarkable point of similarity between these widely separated Eskimo, for I can learn nothing of a similar custom at any intermediate point.
A similar custom prevailed in the neighbouring department of Deux-Sèvres; but here it was the priest who kindled the bonfire, and old men used to put embers of the fire in their wooden shoes as a preservative against many evils.
A similar customappears to prevail at Thebes;[324] it used to be observed by the Macedonian peasantry, and it is still kept up at Therapia, a fashionable summer resort of Constantinople.
The similar legends of the mysterious disappearance of early kings in other lands, for example at Rome and in Uganda, may well point to a similar custom of putting them to death for the purpose of preserving their life.
A similar custom used to be constantly transforming the language of the Abipones of Paraguay, amongst whom, however, a word once abolished seems never to have been revived.
The same or a similar custom is believed to obtain among the hill states about Kangra.
M125) With this noisy ceremony we may compare a similar custom which is still observed year by year at the same season in the long and spacious Piazza Navona at Rome.
A similar custom is believed to obtain in the hill states about Kangra, and to have given rise to a caste of "outcaste" Brahmans.
A protective motive is also assigned for a similar custom observed in Chota Nagpur, a region of India which is the home of many primitive tribes.
In Italy, a similar custom prevails; and in some places it is supposed that the Cumin possesses the power of keeping the thief in the house along with the bread which he wished to steal.
In China, a similar custom prevails, but the Nut given there is the Betel Nut.
In Russia, a similar custom is extant, the favourite tree there being the Quercus Ilex.
The old Roman custom of presenting women with a key as a symbol of an easy delivery(1089) perhaps points to the observance of a similar custom.
M216) A similar custom used to be constantly transforming the language of the Abipones of Paraguay, amongst whom, however, a word once abolished seems never to have been revived.
A similar customis observed by the Greeks, Bulgarians, and Roumanians.
A similar custom appears to be observed in Minorca.
The similar legends of the mysterious disappearance of early kings in other lands, for example at Rome and in Uganda,(59) may well point to a similar custom of putting them to death for the purpose of preserving their life.
Again, the same notion of rescuing the child from dangerous spirits comes out very clearly in a similar custom observed by the natives of Laos, a province of Siam.
The men also have a similar custom, which they perform on horseback.
A similar custom of "throttling" the farmer's wife at the threshing is practised in some parts of Bavaria, only there the pressure is applied by means of a straw rope instead of a flail.
A similar custom is believed to obtain among the hill states about Kangra, and to have given rise to a caste of "outcaste" Brahmans.
A similar custom is observed at Indersdorf in Upper Bavaria; the man who throws the straw Goat into the neighbour's barn imitates the bleating of a goat; if they catch him they blacken his face and tie the Goat on his back.
In Essex a similar customused to be observed at Christmas, and the verses sung by the boys were almost identical with those sung in Ireland.
A similar custom appears to have been annually celebrated by the Asiatic Greeks at the harvest festival of the Thargelia.
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