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The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3)

Note 121.1 — 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.

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A. F. Dörfler, in iii. Am Urquell, 269. A still more repulsive Gipsy charm is reported by Dr. von Wlislocki, in which the hair, saliva, blood, nail-parings, etc., of the man are worked up into a dough and formed into a rough figure supposed to represent him. The treatment of the figure is analogous to the other cases cited. Volksgl. Zig., 104.

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