Note 580 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 3)
Reading edition
Grihya-Sûtras, translated by H. Oldenberg, part i. pp. 168, 282 sq., part ii. p. 188 (Sacred Books of the East, vols. xxix. and xxx.). Compare Sonnerat, Voyage aux Indes Orientales (Paris, 1782), ii. 81; E. Thurston, Ethnographic Notes in Southern India (Madras, 1906), p. 1. So among the Kookies of Northern Cachar in India the young couple at marriage place each a foot on a large stone in the middle of the village. See Lieut. R. Stewart, “Notes on Northern Cachar,” Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, xxiv. (1855) pp. 620 sq. In the old ruined church of Balquhidder in Perthshire there is an ancient gravestone on which people used to stand barefoot at marriages and baptisms. See The Folk-lore Journal, vi. (1888) p. 271.