Show THE WHY of superstitions by ily H KIN KINQ GOATS AND HEALTH fairly common ain ID this country and practically or aniT al ersal versal in to england as well ell as la to tain continental countries of 0 li Is that if one keeps other animals it Is to a good thine thing to bay a goat or two around also the coats pats keep the oth er animals healthy this Is 13 in accordance with the char aai act r assigned the got as a bearer of at the afflictions and ins sins of others from time immemorial IN atness the scope coat goat of the jews among the early races of india coats goats were sacrificed by the thousand thou and at certain festivals as offering offerings to the deities of the lower call and the goat as a substitute for the human sacrifice of a boy was of to dionysus ti tie e wine go eol I 1 by thi tho creeks greeks in twine being thus sacrificed it rill be seen tie goat peael his characteristic part a part well nell ex pressed by a colern slang phrase phrae voicing en PI old ide idea idel L lihen an une one Is 1 wade to bear the blume for ilin hi dete fictions of others we se say he ile Is tie boat goat 1 or it teems I 1 nm am the goat so we can see hy it Is nell to have boat pat or two about the place to take ua apon themselves the diseases which other otherwise ise might be ile attached to the other dom domestic estle animals onlin ali and to absorb our tad luck an I 1 the gont goat Is especial ly dedicated to being the goat for animals from the fact th thit it he to 1 a cred to the treat god pan the iod god of tho the fields and farm forms and of the docks and herds in fact lan 10 was represented in to greek art as having the upper part of his body like that ot of an elderly nian man while the lower part we was like the hind quarters 0 of a eoal pit |