Note 56.2 — Chapter XV · THE COUVADE AND OTHER ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE STRENGTH OF THE BLOOD-TIE—CONCLUSION OF THE INQUIRY INTO THE THEORY OF THE LIFE-TOKEN.

Suprà, vol. i., p. 213; Jülg, 53; Ovid, Metam., viii. 848. So in the island of Florida, when a man sells a pig he takes back its tarunga, or soul, in a dracæna-leaf, which he hangs up in his house, not, however, to recall the identical animal sold, but to animate another pig, when littered. Codrington, 249. This explains a custom in the south of France. When a farmer sells a calf he cuts off a piece of its hair and makes the cow swallow it, “so that she may not regret her calf, and that a better price may be got for it.” ix. Rev. Trad. Pop., 581. The original reason doubtless was that the calf might be born again of her.