The History of the Hair and Nails, by Bruce Lincoln

i've read about some of these, of these folk beliefs before. So this is a paper by bruce lincoln, who is a scholar of religious studies at the university of chicago. It was published in 19 77 and it's worth noting that i'm citing it because it's still really interesting. You you have this ritualof, at a certain age, the child's hair is shaved or cut, and then it is, in a kind of symbolic ritual way, planted within dung or within the earth. And there's this association with on or herbs. Oh, yes, i am ready for this, because've, i've read about a certainly nothing on the ship level