Note 955 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER
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J. Reinegg, Beschreibung des Kaukasus, ii. (Hildesheim and St. Petersburg, 1797), p. 114. Among the Abchases of the Western Caucasus girls make rain by driving an ass into a river, placing a puppet dressed as a woman on a raft, and letting the raft float down stream. See N. von Seidlitz, “Die Abchasen,” Globus, lxvi. (1894) pp. 75 sq.