Note 6 — Chapter XXXIV
C. H. (Charles Henry) Tawney translation
Literally—placing it upon his head.Cp. also the following passage from Brand’s Popular Antiquities, Vol. II, p. 78. “Borlase quotes from Martin’s Western Islands. ‘The same lustration by carrying of fire is performed round about women after child-bearing, and round about children before they are christened, as an effectual means to preserve both the mother and the infant from the power of evil spirits.’” Brand compares the Amphidromia at Athens. See Kuhn’s Westfälische Märchen, Vol. I, pp. 125, and 289: Vol. II, pp. 17 and 33–34.