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savages and the untutored herd of civilized society. It is very certain 

 that what constitutes the knowings, the sayings, and the ways or wonts 

 of the untutored, the unthinking, and the unprogressive among us, re- 

 mind us much of savagery. It is also very certain that each age of the 

 world, each gradusof society, resembles the geological ages; that is, each 

 one in addition to all that it has added of new, embraces or includes 

 much of all the antecedent ages, grades, or epochs. The folk-lorists are, 

 therefore, altogether scientific in collecting the lore of savages cii masse, 

 the lore of barbaric and civilized peoples, so far as they are survivals 

 of times not their own. 



Practically, therefore, what do the folk-lorists wish us to collect, and 

 how shall we name and classify our material after it is gathered ? Just 

 at this writing we are inclined to use Miss Burne's modification of jNfr. 

 Gomme's scheme. For the filing of tales the folk-lore society has adopted 

 a scheme with i:>rinted headings as follows: 



1. Generic name of story (not to be filled up). 



2. Specific name. 



3. Dramatis persona3. 



4. Thread of story. 



5. Incidental oil cmnstances, 



6. Where jjublislied. 



7. Nature of collection. 



(1) Original or translation. 



(2) If oral, state narrator's name. 



(3) Other particulars. 



8. Special points noted by the editor of the above. 



(Signed) . 



Including all human thought and wont, or creed and cult respecting 

 the spirit world under the term religion, we necessarily view the medi- 

 cine man of savages as a priest rather than as a physician. It is hard 

 to tell whether in America or in Australia more is being done to under- 

 stand the social and intellectual condition of the aborigines. 



The men and women who in lower tribes stand for the clergy, as dis- 

 tinguished from the laity, or uninitiated, are variously styled doctors, 

 wizards, or witches, sorcerers, seers, or prophets, mediums, soothsayers, 

 necromancers, rain-makers (better weather makers), magicians, augurs, 

 fortune tellers, enchanters, priests, personators, diviners, etc. 



Now, these can readily be divided into two classes or functions, viz, 

 those who see into, understand, and reveal the spirit world; and those 

 who have more or less control over it, compelling it to do their bidding. 



The medicine man, doctor, sorcerer, wizard, fetish man are all of the 

 latter class. Whatever disease and death may be, whether merely the 

 person or spirit of some noxious thing, or an independently existing 

 spirit, one of the powerful charmers can induce or compel it to do his 

 bidding, either by direct command, or by some diplomatic action called 

 magic. 



