| Show I 1 the luha chii of superstitions BI K irvina KINQ jill ar SALIVA OF LOWER ANIMALS HE saliva of the lower animals for ansta instance nee that of the dog la is imp supposed posed to have great healing powers wounds licked by a dog will heal quickly so says a publication of the american folklore folk lore society and go BO everybody knows who Is at all familiar with popular superstitions it would be hard to name a superstition more firmly rooted in the popular mind at and nd more widely spread than this As 1 in classic times pliny the great roman naturalist and horace the roman poet wrote in elegant latin on the same subject we must not be too squear squeamish nigh to notice it ourselves the ancients appear to have conceived the saliva of the lower animals as possessing a magical quality less spiritual and material akan that of man using the words spiritual and material immaterial in a rather loose sense that of the lower animals pos possessed sesso healing or deadly qualities as the case might be that of man mail protected against the evil eyo eye eyll evil spirita and bad luck in the dog cog licking tores tam supers superstition duon we have a combination of the ancient belief in the magic power of saliva and the doctrine of disease transfer encee the latter a primitive idea running through many current superstitions the dog from most ancient times perhaps because lie he has ban from most ancient times been the close coni coin pardon canlon of man has been regarded as a most handy ana receptive animal to which to transfer disease and still alg ure largely in current superstitions of the disease transference sort sorl Q by mcclure newspaper syndicate 0 9 by mcclon newspaper Mpa pr |
