558 MEDICINE-MEN OF THE APACHE. 



semblables, ce qui est expressement eoudamiie par le Synode de Ferrare 

 en 1012.&quot; * Evidently the desire was to be buried with cords or amulets 

 which in life they dared not wear. 



We may infer that cords and other articles of monastic raiment can 

 be traced back to a most remote ancestry by reading the views of (iod- 

 frey Higgins, in Auacalypsis, to the effect that there was a tradition 

 maintained among the Carmelites that their order had been established 

 by the prophet Elisha and that Jesus Christ himself had been one of 

 its members. Massingberd, speaking of the first arrival of the Car 

 melites in England (about A. D. 1215), says: &quot;They professed to be 

 newly arrived in Italy, driven out by the Saracens from the Holy Land, 

 where they had remained on Mount Carmel from the time of Elisha 

 the prophet. They assert that the sons of the prophets had con 

 tinued on Mount Carmel as a poor brotherhood till the time of Christ, 

 soon after which they were miraculously converted, and that the Virgin 

 Mary joined their order and gave them a precious vestment called a 

 scapular.&quot; 2 



ANALOGUES TO BE FOUND AMONO THE AZTECS, PERUVIANS, AND 



OTHERS. 



According to the different authorities cited below, it will be seen that 

 the Aztec priests were in the habit of consulting Fate by casting upon 

 the ground a handful of cords tied together; if the cords remained 

 bunched together, the sign was that the patient was to die, but if they 

 stretched out, then it was apparent that the patient was soon to stretch 

 out his legs and recover. Mendieta says : &quot; Tenian uiios cordeles, hecho 

 de ellos un manojo como llavero donde las mujeres traeu colgadas las 

 llaves, lanzabanlos en el suelo, y si quedaban revueltos, decian que era 

 senal de muerte. Y si alguno 6 algunos salian extendidos, tenianlo por 

 sefial de vida, dicieudo: que ya comeuzaba el enfermo a extender los pi6s 

 y las manos.&quot; ;l Diego Duran speaks of the Mexican priests casting lota 

 with knotted cords, &quot;con nudillos de hilo echabau suertes.&quot; 4 When 

 the army of Cortes advanced into the interior of Mexico, his soldiers 

 found a forest of pine in which the trees were interlaced with certain 

 cords and papers which the wizards had placed there, telling the Tlas- 

 caltecs that they would restrain the advance of the strangers and 

 deprive them of all strength: 



Hallaron un Pinar nmi espeso, lleno de hiloo i papeles, que enredaban los Arboles, 

 i atravesabaii el caniiuo, de que inucho se rieron los Castellanos; i dixeron graciosos 

 donaires, quaudo luetfo supicron que los Hechiceros havian dado a eutender a los 

 Tlascalteoas que con aquellos hilos, i papeles liavian de tener ii, los Castellauos, i qui- 

 tarles sus fuercaa. 6 



1 Picart, C6remonii nt Coutnmes, et., vol. 10, p. r&amp;gt;(i. 



* Massingberd, The English Reformation, London, 1857, p. 105. 

 Mendieta, p, 110. 



1 Vol. 3, cap. 5, p. 234. 



* Herrera, dec. 2. lib. 6, p. HI. 



