168 HOW THE HORSE LEARNS 



Teaching the horse to he afraid 



of a man dressed in red, not to be afraid 



of a man dressed in ivhite, 



to be afraid of a given object or of a, given place. 



A servant dissuaded his mistress from the idea, 

 which involved great trouble to him, of keeping 

 a number of cats, by making them appear posses- 

 sed by demons. He did it in this way. He gave 

 them food, and whilst they were eating drew from 

 his pocket a long, strong and thick rosary, and 

 whipped them. After having made them run about 

 for some time by beating them he replaced the 

 rosary in his pocket and allowed tliem to eat. Thus 

 the cats learnt not to eat on being shown the 

 rosary aud to eat when the rosary was replaced in 

 the pocket. 



This man possessed sagacity. Bad or good asso- 

 ciations may be coupled with anything. A bad 

 association may be coupled with red clothing and 

 the horse may be taught to be afraid of the red 

 clothing by having him severely ill-treated by 



