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By courtesy of 

 J. B. Lippincott Company 



FLINT AMULETS OF THE PR^EDYNASTIC PERIOD. EGYPT 



The chipped stone implements of prehistoric man are -=-/»«d ^ ''^V^.^^'^'f '^'""'^Xen 

 ence in many parts of the world. In Ireland the flint arrow-head .s beheyed to have been 

 shot at man or beast by the fairies and to protect the wearer agamst .„,u y from them 

 the Scandinavian peasants share with the Burmans a delusion alrnost universal ''■"""^ P"°"- 

 tive people, that these prehistoric stone implements have fallen trom the sky and are 

 charms against lightning 



