Note 988 — Chapter V · THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER
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Fr. A. Jaussen, “Coutumes arabes,” Revue Biblique, April 1903, p. 248. Elsewhere the same writer describes this ceremony as a mode of putting a stop to cholera. See his Coutumes des Arabes au pays de Moab (Paris, 1908), p. 362. To pass between the pieces of a sacrificial victim is a form of oath (Genesis xv. 9 sqq.; Jeremiah xxxiv. 18; Dictys Cretensis, Bell. Trojan. i. 15; R. Moffat, Missionary Labours and Scenes in Southern Africa, p. 278) or of purification (Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae, 111; Apollodorus, Bibliotheca, iii. 13. 7; Livy, xl. 6; E. Casalis, The Basutos, p. 256; S. Krascheninnikow, Beschreibung des Landes Kamtschatka, pp. 277 sq.). Compare my note on Pausanias, iii. 20. 9.