Note 28 — Chapter VI · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
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In some places, a relative of the child’s on the mother’s side presents it with a necklace of gold beads shaped like large black ants. When the child attains the age of eight or ten years this necklace is offered to some god or goddess. The child is named Sānkalio as it wears round its neck this sānkal or chain, that is, necklace.28