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THE ABORIGINES OF NEW SOUTH _—. 
red stones,* and the Cingalese when they are sick offer 
a red cock to the evil spirit that has caused the sickness 
The blacks of Congo wash and anoint a corpse and 
paint it red,+ and their black brethren of eg 
when they are celebrating the rite of cireumcisio 
wear anything red about them lest the child should ied 
sanctioned in honor of their goddess Mulitta, she seats 
herself on a mat in a public place and covers her head, 
shoulders, and arms with the blood of a fowl ; she thea 
retires for her devotions, and these being fini ed 8 
washes herself, returns, and is rubbed all over with 
white chalk where the blood had been. 
The young ladies of Congo—also a : black country— 
have a similar custom, but they besmear their faces 
necks with red paint. 
- Those who pass through the Bora paint themse ce 
white at its close. It is well known that in the anci® 
rituals white was the colour sacred bee the ene” 
benign god, before whom darkness flies away, 
spirits ‘cme depart at the the crowing of the cock, the 
harbinger of the dawn. 
ve heard 
The cock, that is oe uate et to the morn, ; : 
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throa! 
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hether in sea or fire, in h or alr, 
The ie ot and erring spirit hies 
b Siva, the eter . 
, To his confine 
An, India. white agates, represen 
the brand of Typhon upon him, 
influences, to disease and death fro 
fathers’ gods and has, learnede the 
dances of his tribe, he comes forth 
