Add. MS b/36/74
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c 1947-c 1955
Part of Additional Manuscripts b
Dartmouth House, 47 Dartmouth Park Hill, N.W. Dated May 21 '08 - Has been reading 'Adonis, Attis & Osiris' and offers some notes from his experience in Africa: on kings responsible for drought, the human wives of the python god, reincarnation of the dead, sacred stones to heal barrenness [this witnessed with H. B. Johnstone, the Vice Consul in Tunis], fire worship, worship of springs or volcanoes, the new birth, and a special virtue ascribed to genital organs