Animal sacrifice
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Hay Pressing, 1870s-1930s
Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1182
Scope and Contents
Photograph of men using a machine to press hay in [South Africa] in the early 20th century.
Dates:
1870s-1930s
Letter to James Cossar Ewart from Sir William Ridgeway, 07 February 1903
Item
Identifier: Coll-14/9/9/17
Scope and Contents
Ridgeway thanks Ewart for the photograph of a pony's head. He asserts that the conclusion that no asses had evolved west of the Nile is incorrect and cites a renowned Arab historian and geographer, Al-Masudi. He mentions the appearance of curiously striped wild asses in the province of Nubia, on the West side of the Nile. Ridgeway discusses the implications of the infiltration of asses into this area and explores its possible origins. He states that he is writing to Walter Burton Harris, who...
Dates:
07 February 1903
Note of a cure for falling sickness, September 1909
Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW117/84
Scope and Contents
Note which states that sacrificing a black cat or a black cock is a cure for falling sickness [epilepsy]. Text has been scored through as if transcribed elsewhere.
Dates:
September 1909