ticks most
elaborately plumed. He was preceded by a guardian with drawn
bow and arrows, while another followed, _twirling the
sounding slat_, which had attracted alike my attention and
that of hundreds of the Indians, who hurriedly flocked to the
roofs of the adjacent houses, or lined the street, bowing
their heads in adoration, and scattering sacred prayer-meal
on the god and his attendant priests. Slowly they wound their
way down the hill, across the river, and off toward the
mountain of Thunder. Soon an identical procession followed
and took its way toward the western hills. I watched them
long until they disappeared, and a few hours afterward there
arose from the top of 'Thunder Mountain' a dense column of
smoke, simultaneously with another from the more distant
western mesa of 'U-ha-na-mi,' or 'Mount of the Beloved.'

Then they told me that for four days I must neither touch nor
eat flesh or oil of any kind, and for ten days neither throw
any refuse from my doors nor permit a spark to leave my
house, for 'This was the season of the year when the
"grandmother of men" (fire) was precious.'

Here then, in Zuni, we have the bull-roarer again, and once more we
find it employed as a summons to the mysteries. We do not learn,
however, that women in Zuni are forbidden to look upon the
bull-roarer. Finally, the South African evidence, which is supplied by
letters from a correspondent of Mr. Tylor's, proves that in South
Africa, too, the bull-roarer is employed to call the men to the
celebration of secret functions. A minute description of the
instrument, and of its magical power to raise a wind, is given in
Theal's _Kaffir Folklore_, p. 209. The bull-roarer has not been made a
subject of particular research; very probably later investigations
will find it in other parts of the modern world besides America,
Africa, New Zealand, and Australia. I have myself been fortunate
enough to encounter the bull-roarer on the soil of ancient Greece and
in connection with the Dionysiac mysteries. Clemens of Alexandria, and
Arnobius, an early Christian father who follows Clemens, describe
certain toys of the child Dionysus which were used in the mysteries.
Among these are _turbines_, ~konoi~ and ~rhomboi~. The ordinary
dictionaries interpret all these as whipping-tops, adding that
~rhombos~ is sometimes 'a magic wheel.' The ancient scholiast on
Clemens, however