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II, 69.
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(17) Of sorcery.
" Hath he set his hand to sorcery or witchcraft ?
Cf. note 2 on p. 126, to III, 114.
Cf. Exod. xxii, 18, "Thou shalt not suffer a witch to
live " ;
Lev. xix, 26, " Neither shall ye use enchantments, nor
practise augury." Cf. also 31 ; xx, 6, 27 ; Deut. xviii, 11.
II, 88-93.
III, 16,
(18) Of pointing ivith the finger.
" Hath he incurred a tabu by pointing his finger at a person
—the person of father or mother, elder brother or sister,
friend or neighbour, god or king, master or mistress ?
" Tabu of pointing at the fire."
Cf. II, 7, " Hath he pointed his finger . . . ? "
Ill, 23.
(19) Of sunstroke.
" Tabu from sitting on a seat in the sun."
(20) Of beasts.
Ill, 30. " Tabu against striking the young of beasts."
42. "[Tabu] of asking a man for wild beasts at the side of
a cattle-stall."
Here also add II, 115, 116, *' He asketh of domestic and
wild beasts," and for want of a better place ; YIII, 40,
" From the tabu of having found chance oxen (or) sheep
belonging to men and taking them " ; and III, 35, " Tabu
of slaughtering a sheep and touching its riksu (?)."
Cf. Lev. xxii, 27, " When a bullock or a sheep or a goat
is brought forth, then it shall be seven days under the dam "
(before being sacrificed) ; Deut. xxii, 6, *' If a bird's nest
chance to be before thee," etc. Cf. Sabbathy xix, 1, ** If (on
the Sabbath) one hunts a wild beast or a bird which one has
on one's domain, it is not a guilty act, but it is a crime to
wound them."
Exod. xxiii, 4, " If thou meet thine enemy's ox or his ass
going astray, thou shalt surely bring it back to him again " ;
Deut. xxii, 1, '' Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his
sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them."
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