Note 48 — Chapter I · THE EVIL EYE AND THE SCARING OF GHOSTS.
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Similarly, among the Drâvidians, the Kos drink the blood of the sacrificial bull; the Malers cure demoniacs by giving the blood of a sacrificed buffalo; the Pahariyas, in time of epidemics, set up a pair of posts and a cross beam, and hang on it a vessel of blood.48 So, the Jews sprinkled the door-posts and the horns of the altar with blood, and the same customs prevail among many other peoples.