(M170) Often the clipped hair and nails are stowed away in any secret place, not necessarily in a temple or cemetery or at a tree, as in the cases already mentioned. Thus in Swabia you are recommended to deposit your clipped hair in some spot where neither sun nor moon can shine on it, for example in the earth or under a stone.(972) In Danzig it is buried in a bag under the threshold.(973) In Ugi, one of the Solomon Islands, men bury their hair lest it should fall into the hands of an enemy who would make magic with it and so bring sickness or calamity on them.(974) The same fear seems to be general in Melanesia, and has led to a regular practice of hiding cut hair and nails.(975) In Fiji, the shorn hair is concealed in the thatch of the house.(976) Most Burmese and Shans tie the combings of their hair and the parings of their nails to a stone and sink them in deep water or bury them in the ground.(977) The Zend-Avesta directs that the clippings of hair and the parings of nails shall be placed in separate holes, and that three, six, or nine furrows shall be drawn round each hole with a metal knife.(978) In the _Grihya-Sûtras_ it is provided that the hair cut from a child’s head at the end of the first, third, fifth, or seventh year shall be buried in the earth at a place covered with grass or in the neighbourhood of water.(979) At the end of the period of his studentship a Brahman has his hair shaved and his nails cut; and a person who is kindly disposed to him gathers the shorn hair and the clipped nails, puts them in a lump of bull’s dung, and buries them in a cow-stable or near an _adumbara_ tree or in a clump of _darbha_ grass, with the words, “Thus I hide the sins of So-and-so.”(980) The Madi or Moru tribe of central Africa bury the parings of their nails in the ground.(981) In Uganda grown people throw away the clippings of their hair, but carefully bury the parings of their nails.(982) The A-lur are careful to collect and bury both their hair and nails in safe places.(983) The same practice prevails among many tribes of South Africa, from a fear lest wizards should get hold of the severed particles and work evil with them.(984) The Caffres carry still further this dread of allowing any portion of themselves to fall into the hands of an enemy; for not only do they bury their cut hair and nails in a secret spot, but when one of them cleans the head of another he preserves the vermin which he catches, “carefully delivering them to the person to whom they originally appertained, supposing, according to their theory, that as they derived their support from the blood of the man from whom they were taken, should they be killed by another, the blood of his neighbour would be in his possession, thus placing in his hands the power of some superhuman influence.”(985) Amongst the Wanyoro of central Africa all cuttings of the hair and nails are carefully stored under the bed and afterwards strewed