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on the folk lore connection, Academy, 15th February 1896). Dr Tylor (Primitive Culture, ii, pp. 430-433) says that primitive tribes baptised their youth to make them brave and fearle , saying that it made them proof against death by any weapon, For this cause the New Zealander used to baptise his sun twice; but Kelts thought that one baptism was enough to enable a warrior “to kill a Con naught man daily.” These Kelts named their babes at baptism, like the Romans when performing similar lustrations, or the Azteks (see Pre scott’s Conquest of Merico, pp. 57, 482) as already noticed, [It is remarkable that in Syria profe ed Moslems (says Bald ens per ger) sometimes accept Christian baptism because it is supposed to remove a natural bad smell from the body, and this is especially notable because the same fact is stated, in connection with Syria, in the 18th century. It probably meant no more than purification, but it is one of many instances where Moslems are influenced by the Christian domination of the past in Syria—Ep.] H Colonel Ellis narrates the performance of baptismal rites among the Ishi, and Ewe speaking tribes of W. Africa (Yoruba, p. 153, and Ewe, p. 154), The votaries of Pan, Bakkhos, Siva, and other solar gods alike baptised. 284