Item 97 - Typed letter from J. S. Furnivall to Dr Frazer

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Pegu Club, Rangoon - Shares information on the harvest custom of the Talaings of Lower Burma: the last sheaf is brought home separately, which is given the name Bonmagyi, but rapidly disappearing as a custom; also gives information on snake worship by Burmans, and the tradition of having a rope pulling competition if there is a drought, also a game by children called 'The comb seller and the serpent', and a similar game called 'Little birds waggling heads'; has come across a snake charm in a peddlar's pack. Writes of a local Talaing spirit, the lord of the land, whose name is not uttered; makes a brief mention of a sacrificial ceremony of burying a doll with some of the hair and nails of a sick person.