The past in the present: what is civilisation? (1880)
Mitchell, Arthur, Sir, 1826-1909 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 181
pondent says— I have known persons comefor the water into which it has been dipped from a distanceof forty miles. It appears that there were various formsto be observed by the person who wished to benefit by itshealing powers. He was obliged, for instance, to draw thewater himself, and bring it… … Fig. 136.—Clach Dearg or Stone ofArdvoirloch. THE PAST IN THE PRESENT. 159 water; it was therefore necessary, if a visit had to be paid,that the bottle should be left outside.x The people who come under the sway of such supersti-tions as those I am now describing are by no means neces-sarily the…
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