Note 687 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 3)
Reading edition
N. Adriani and A. C. Kruijt, “Van Posso naar Parigi, Sigi en Lindoe,” Mededeelingen van wege het Nederlandsche Zendelinggenootschap, xlii. (1898) pp. 434 sq. In Parigi after a birth the kindspek (?) is wrapt in a leaf and hung in a tree at some distance from the house. For the people think that if it were burned, the child would die (ibid. p. 434).