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“All this is accomplished when proper care is taken with the disposal of one’s hair and nails. But we must also note that when such care is not taken – when disposal is not a ritual and does not repeat the acts of a mythic model – the reverse can be the effect. For if proper disposal serves to create the cosmos, then improper disposal can de-create it or, to put it negatively, can serve to create chaos out of cosmos”

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Treatment of Hair and Fingernails among the Indo-Europeans

Bruce Lincoln, In History of Religions, Vol.16, No.4, The Mythic Imagination (May, 1977) pp 360, University of Chicago Press

on the disposal of hair and nails
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