140 S/icIls as evidence 0/ the Mii^rations. 



in England tliey are occasionally noticed worn in long 

 strings by travelling g}'psies. 



According to Professor Ridgewa)-,"'^ cowries are still 

 used, combined with a Christian medal, in Corfu as a 

 child's amulet ; and also in Montenegro. 



In the following pages frequent references will be 

 found to the use of cowr}'-shel!s as amulets of magical 

 import in Africa, Asia, Pacific Islands, and elsewhere. 



The custom of decorating the trappings of horses with 

 cowries, doubtless with the object of averting the evil eye, 

 is found in Persia as well as in India (where elephants 

 carry such ornament), in Hungary and in Norway. 

 And according to Ridgeway {op. cit., p. 248), Mr. F. \V. 

 Hasluck, when travelling in the Moreain 1907, saw a boar's 

 tusk charm on a horse in Triphylia, with a [)cndant of a 

 cross formed of four cowries sewn on leather. 



I.ane, in his " Modern I'^gyptians," ""^ informs us that 

 cowries are still used by the people of Egypt, and are 

 regarded as a protection against the evil eye. With this 

 object the}' are often attached to the trappings of camels, 

 horses, and other animals, as well as to the caps of children. 

 Pickering"' remark's that on ascending the Nile to Kenneh, 

 the modern capital of the Thebaid, about 30 miles below the 

 site of ancient Thebes, cowries were seen used as money 

 by market women of the Ethiopian [? Soudanese] race. 

 Culin, in his "Chess and Playing Cards,"'"'" reports that in 

 the streets of "Cairo" at the Columbian E.xposition was a 

 family of liishareen from the Eastern desert, near .Assouan, 



'•'■'■ W. Ridgewuy, "The Origin of tlie Turkish Crescent," /(3//r//. A'oy. 

 Aiillirop. lint., G. B. and I., vol. 38 (1908), p. 248, pi. 21, lig. 23. 



''* \\. W. Lane, '' Modern Egyptians," vol. i., 1849, P- 343- 



'''- I'ickering, "Races of Man"' (Bohn\<; lul.), 1863, as quoted liy 

 .Stearns, '' Eihno-conchology," AV//. U..S. Nat. Mas., 18S7, (18S9), [). 303. 



«« Stewart Culin, "Chess and Playing Cards," Rept. U.S. Nat. .Mus., 

 1896, (189S), p. 815 footnote. 



