It is improbatte that Cornet unique in France. where supersti tion is still rife in many rues lets. The prevalence of super-may. w ¢ cause of rural dis. tricts than in the towns. Too many French peasants refer a quack doctor to a regular medical prac tioner, one if a chibl falls ill it is) the common pra many' parts France to tie a ribbon round that part of the image of a saint]
Jeorresponding to the part of the: child's body that is affected of course, the practice magic, about which Sie Frazer has so much to say In other cases the iaiaze of a saint! touched with the clothes of the sick person, and in yet others it is necessary that ths sick person should touch the image. Peasants have been known to suffering from pneumon the pour impressed by the remarka similarity of expression b the women in the countries stretch ing from Hongkong to Dibuyath the Brak sav it among the among the Khasi women ard. the Abors. the Mishmis, the Khachatis, and the Gurkhall; north of Mandalay mong the Kachins, the Moros, and the Shans and Chins, Around 1M, I noticed it among tha women who came from the tribes of south west China, between Chittagong ty 700 miles and ix one of the most interesting: bits of country geographically and ethnographically en the globe, Manipur, Hatlong, Landing tone may see naked women, pleturesquedy women, and very dressed" Khacharis. the railway sta: tions and tea estates are crowded with Abors (two kinds) Mishmis (two kinds) and Kbamtis. In fact every railway station on the Assam-Bengal railway. provides sits 08 peculiar and partiesiar people, Added to the diferent bill there is every known and Indian people from the Tami elejcas in the south to the and Rengali in the north, Assam is famous for its tea gardens which are mostly north of Lamding and Tingulia, Prom the
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