Water

with these and taste: 5. Earth, with the gun as_ of sound, feeling, colour, taste, and smell. Skandinavians, who still carry fire to protect them, used to place it in pits dug in new lands to drive away demons, and keep it alight beside babes till baptised (see also Candles), Dr Stewart, minister at Lochaber (Journal Scot. Ant. Socy., March 1890) witne ed such rites in Wig tons hire in 1889. 127