10 ATHENS. 
CHAP, ceremonies attending sneezing' ; ofierings made 
, of locks of hair'^; a veneration for salt'; 
with their various modes of divination. 
To collect and enumerate all of them, would 
require a longer residence in the country. An 
attention to suck examples of antient ceremonies 
and superstitions is hovvever useful; because, 
having been transmitted from father to son, and 
being found at this day in countries widely 
separated, they serve to assist an inquiry 
into the origin of nations ; and if they do not 
enable us to trace a connection between 
different branches of the same stock, with as 
much certainty as the relation of languages, yet 
they sometimes tend to confirm the truths 
which are thereby suggested. In such an 
inquiry, perhaps there will be found nothing 
more perplexing than the evident analogy 
between some of the customs of the present 
inhabitants of Greece and those of other nations, 
differing both as to situation and in every 
peculiarity of language ; such, for example, as 
Funeral may bc obscrvcd in comparing the funeral 
manians. ccremonies of the yllhnnians with those of 
(1) Urapfih IK hliuv. Plut. Tkemist. p. 85. 1. 23. 
(2) Vid. Lucian, Pausanias, See. Human hair is often suspended 
among the dona voliva made by tlie inhabitants of India to their Gods. 
(3) nw^Xsj. DemoiM. p. 241. 
