Note 44 — LECTURE II. The Origin and Contents of Primitive Religions.

Bishop Calloway, in Jour. Anthrop. Institute, i., p. 177; and in his Religious System of the Amazulu, p. 232. The Bushmen explain it as “a kind of beating of the flesh,” which tells them the future, and where lost things may be found. They add: “Those who are stupid do not understand this teaching.”—Bleek, Bushman Folk-lore, p. 17.