(Glasgow, 1900), p. 248. These are examples of the beneficent application of the menstruous energy. [249] _Taboo and the Perils of the Soul_, pp. 1 _sqq._ [250] For a similar reason, perhaps, ancient Hindoo ritual prescribed that when the hair of a child's head was shorn in the third year, the clippings should be buried in a cow-stable, or near an _udumbara_ tree, or in a clump of _darbha_ grass, with the words, "Where Pushan, Brihaspati, Savitri, Soma, Agni dwell, they have in many ways searched where they should deposit it, between heaven and earth, the waters and heaven." See _The Grihya-Sûtras_, translated by H. Oldenberg, Part ii. (Oxford, 1892) p. 218 (_Sacred Books of the East_, vol. xxx.). [251] Petronius, _Sat._ 48; Pausanias, x. 12: 8; Justin Martyr, _Cohort ad Graecos_, 37, p. 34 c (ed. 1742). According to another account, the remains of the Sibyl were enclosed in an iron cage which hung from a pillar in an ancient temple of Hercules at Argyrus (Ampelius, _Liber Memorialis_, viii. 16). [252] A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _Nord-deutsche Sagen, Märchen und Gebräuche_ (Leipsic, 1848), p. 70, No. 72. i. This and the following German parallels to the story of the Sibyl's wish were first indicated by Dr. M.R. James (_Classical Review_, vi. (1892) p. 74). I have already given the stories at length in a note on Pausanias, x. 12. 8 (vol. v. pp. 292 _sq._). [253] A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _op. cit._ pp. 70 _sq._, No. 72. 2. [254] A. Kuhn und W. Schwartz, _op. cit._ p. 71, No. 72. 3. [255] Karl Müllenhoff, _Sagen, Märchen und Lieder der Herzogthümer Holstein und Lauenburg_ (Kiel, 1845), pp. 158 _sg._, No. 217. CHAPTER III THE MYTH OF BALDER [How Balder, the good and beautiful god, was done to death by a stroke of the mistletoe.]