not pare the nails of female children till they are four years of age.(906) In Uganda a child’s hair may not be cut until the child has received a name. Should any of it be rubbed or plucked off accidentally, it is refastened to the child’s head with string or by being knotted to the other hair.(907) Amongst the Ewe negroes of the Slave Coast, a mother sometimes vows a sacrifice to the fetish if her infant should live. She then leaves the child unshorn till its fourth or sixth year, when she fulfils her vow and has the child’s hair cut by a priest.(908) To this day a Syrian mother will sometimes, like Hannah, devote her little one to God. When the child reaches a certain age, its hair is cut and weighed, and money is paid in proportion to the weight. If the boy thus dedicated is a Moslem, he becomes in time a dervish; if he is a Christian, he becomes a monk.(909) Among the Toradjas of central Celebes, when a child’s hair is cut to rid it of vermin, some locks are allowed to remain on the crown of the head as a refuge for one of the child’s souls. Otherwise the soul would have no place in which to settle, and the child would sicken.(910) The Karo-Bataks of Sumatra are much afraid of frightening away the soul (_tĕndi_) of a child; hence when they cut its hair, they always leave a patch unshorn, to which the soul can retreat before the shears. Usually this lock remains unshorn all through life, or at least up till manhood.(911) In some parts of Germany it is thought that if a child’s hair is combed in its first year the child will be unlucky;(912) or that if a boy’s hair is cut before his seventh year he will have no courage.(913) § 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting.