Note 587 — Chapter III · SYMPATHETIC MAGIC (continued 3)
Reading edition
W. Munzinger, Sitten und Recht der Bogos (Winterthur, 1859), pp. 33 sq. For an Indian example of swearing on a stone see J. Eliot, “Observations on the Inhabitants of the Garrow Hills,” Asiatick Researches, iii. 30 sq. (8vo ed.). On the custom see further my article, “Folk-lore in the Old Testament,” in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor (Oxford, 1907), pp. 131 sqq.