Note 142.2 — 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.
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Krauss, Sitte und Brauch, 546. At Lesbos he throws it behind the oven, and asks the oven for an iron tooth to crunch marbles and eat biscuits. Georgeakis, 331. To the same order of ideas belongs the custom, said to prevail among the Hindus, of throwing their milk-teeth into a dung-pit and praying that their new teeth may grow as fast as a dung-heap does. i. N. Ind. N. and Q., 102, citing G. T. Lushington, in Journ. As. Soc. Bengal, 1833.