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Scientific American, Vol. 97, No. 8 (August 24, 1907) (1907)

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of human hair is regarded as object, protecting the owner from injury by accident hung at their cinctures, and a few of them waved a panacea to ward off misfortune; while a straw image and helping him to success in the chase. A Korean thrown out of a Korean’s house on the last day of the black… … deity. From behind her advanced a bevy of smiling in like manner, and is believed by the natives to be sins of the household, as well as to obliterate all traces of bad luck. all-powerful in averting calamity and death. young women, gracefully carrying on their heads bas- In old England the women…

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