. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. o UJ I- 0. yiccER] THE ARROW-CHARMING 257* in wliicli the breath is life, ami the kings at ouce the seat and thesymbol of vitality. Naturally the fleshly symbol is from a dead body;and just as the lung denotes vitality in life, so (in primitive thought) itdenotes an emphasized, as it were an incarnated, antithesis of vitalityin death. Xext, as the recipes continue, this death-symbol is exposedto the most jjotent agencies of <leath—to the bites of maddened rattle-snakes, to the stings of
. Annual report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. o UJ I- 0. yiccER] THE ARROW-CHARMING 257* in wliicli the breath is life, ami the kings at ouce the seat and thesymbol of vitality. Naturally the fleshly symbol is from a dead body;and just as the lung denotes vitality in life, so (in primitive thought) itdenotes an emphasized, as it were an incarnated, antithesis of vitalityin death. Xext, as the recipes continue, this death-symbol is exposedto the most jjotent agencies of <leath—to the bites of maddened rattle-snakes, to the stings of irritated scorpions, to the venouied trailings ofharried centipedes. Then the deadly creatures are themselves killed,and the fanged heads of the serpents, the stinging tails of the scor-pions, and the tiery feet of the centipedes, together with portions ofredolent ordure from the grave-cairns, and other symbols of death anddecay are crushed and macerated with the mass in a wizards brew,grewsome beyond the emasculated and degraded witchs broth ofmedieval times. Finally, the grisly mess is allowed to simmer in
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