. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Druidical Monuments, f and even down to near the Roman times. They are represented inFigs. 227, 228, 229, and 230. Boucher, PI. XXVII. f Ibid., Pis. XXXIII. and XXXIV. IN CONNECTION WITn HUMAN ORIGINS. 367 We should remember that many of the instruments we call axes wereprobably used only in sacrifices, and some, perhaps, merely as votiveofferings or amulets; being too small, and made of material
. Types of mankind : or ethnological researches, based upon the ancient monuments, paintings, sculptures, and crania of races and upon their natural, geographical, philological, and biblical history . Druidical Monuments, f and even down to near the Roman times. They are represented inFigs. 227, 228, 229, and 230. Boucher, PI. XXVII. f Ibid., Pis. XXXIII. and XXXIV. IN CONNECTION WITn HUMAN ORIGINS. 367 We should remember that many of the instruments we call axes wereprobably used only in sacrifices, and some, perhaps, merely as votiveofferings or amulets; being too small, and made of materials too fra-gile, to have been of any use either as weapons or as tools. Moreover,they were fitted so slightly to their cases, that they must have becomedetached whenever a blow was struck, and would thus have been leftin the wound, or, in case of sacrifice, would have dropped into thehole of the dolmen made to receive the blood of the victim. Thissuperstition still exists among some savage tribes, who, in their humansacrifices,always leave the knife in the wound; and may perhaps betraced in the practice of Italian bravos, with whom it is a point ofprofessional honor to leave the stiletto sticki
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