3 of 12) by James George Frazer § 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails. 3 of 12) by James George Frazer § 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails.
But even when the hair and nails have been safely cut, there remains the difficulty of disposing of them, for their owner believes himself liable to suffer from any harm that may befall them. The notion that a man may be bewitched by means of the clippings of his hair, the parings of his nails, or any other severed portion
of his person is [pg 268] almost world-wide, 924 and attested by evidence too ample, too familiar, and too tedious in its uniformity to be here analysed at length. The general idea on which the superstition rests is that of the sympathetic connexion supposed to persist between a person and everything that has once been part of his body or ...
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