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FRAZ/19/5
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Typed letter from Alastair W. R. Miller to Sir James Frazer
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- 26 Apr. 1935 (Creation)
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Saviour's Bank, Chipping Campden, Glos. - Has just read 'Adonis' and asks if the Hogmanay custom cited in Carmichael's 'Ortha nan Gàidheal', in which a man wearing a bull's hide is hit with sticks while circling a house, suggests the annual death of the fertility god.