Show THE WHY of SUPERSTITIONS 8 By Dy H H. H KINQ SNAKES AND WATER H EltE are two snake SUI superstitions which are ore spread o er a n region stretching from fum Nova O S Scotia to In i sas sac and which perhaps exist In other othir sections If It a drop of ruin fulls fall on fin finI v I 0 dead snake before sundown the lie snake will still conic come to tu ii lire life fe If a u person bitter bitten by a snake cannot get el to water before the snake do does dares Ih the I In- In bitten person per person son Ion will die But nut If the bitten lilt hit ten Ion person reaches water first the s snake dies lic V have bare here the survival sUl of If the iii i int nt conception of moisture water moisture water as the vivifying force of nature the nature the cult cull ill ol Isis the moon moun goddess for fur according I to Pliny and all the other II I scientists and und before them accord accordIng log lag to the conception of those wine will serve the of a stilt still It ll more mire hour hoary r eld the moon was the Ille source of all ell moisture The first of the superstitious we wt are considering Is an un i evident echo of one of ot the stories of l 11 isle lii She wished It to get possession of the nil name IIII of lin the hit the sun so sun so made a 8 serpent of ut ear it placed It In to las Ila's path pulli It I. and It came Clime to life liCe and und lilt hit the lIot sun god who wha revealed his name In escape further trouble All the elements here the here the serpent brought to tu life Ilfe b I try moisture In the suns sun's path path-Ihal path that Is before tie tie- fore his disappearance from Ih the IlIn ens The file roots Of bf most of the Ille serpent superstitions of ot today are found In III the isis Osiris myths In In the second su so- superstition 0 we nine have butt both Ir magic und and mythology y The bitten reaches the water lint and tie the water waler revivifies re him as 08 Isis Isla revivified rectified Osiris after lifter th the work ork of YI the great r al ser serpent t A tl l. l Tile The 1 lie evil principle imparted imparted I bythe liy by the serpent Is killed and und In III dying reacts re r reacts acts by sympathetic tangle upon the the serpent und and the serpent Is 18 killed also O Q b bj Di McClure N w f 1 fl i i ii i 1 ct a b Dv bw Mol Mii lurr lur lui r t I |