Identity area
Reference code
Add. MS b/36/237
Title
Copy letter from A. Mitchell Innes to J. G. Frazer
Date(s)
- c 1947-c 1955 (Creation)
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Item
Extent and medium
1 item; typescript copy
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Name of creator
Name of creator
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Scope and content
British Legation, Montevideo. Dated Feb. 27 - Writes with information about titles of the King of Siam, a theory for the custom of drinking of the blood of a murdered person, the custom of the soul leaving the body during sleep, a National Geographic magazine article about a man in Tunisia burying hair cuttings and nail parings to keep away the Evil One, the Egyptian belief in ghosts of murdered men, and an asthma cure involving Paraguayan hairless dogs.