Identifier: memoirsproceedin66manc (find matches)
Title: Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Subjects: Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society
Publisher: Manchester : The Society
Contributing Library: American Museum of Natural History Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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^co/^i^/i Pork Taboo who are still, as they formerly were, in the vast majority. Incertain districts, as in the Hebrides, the descendants of pork-eating intruders have acquired the prejudice. James VI ofScotland and some contemporary lords had likewise succumbedto the ancient taboo. Nothing persists like immemorial superstitions or likefood prejudices based on superstitious beliefs. It is thecommon people who perpetuate old-world customs and stillobserve Halloween, May-day and other pre-Christian festi-vals, who visit wishing wells and make metal offeringsand tie rags to washing trees. In the seventeenth centuryDingwall Presbytery, as its minutes show (1656â1678) had todeal with offenders among the common people who perpetuated heathenish practices at Loch Maree, including the sacri-ficing of bulls, the pouring of oblations of milk on the hills,etc. Fairies, goblins, etc., are still believed in by sections ofthe inhabitants of Scotland. The pork taboo is only one ofmany survivals.
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INVERNESS BOAR STONE. That the pork taboo is of Eastern origin there can be littledoubt. In Egypt the black pig acquired an evil reputationbecause it was a form assumed by Set, the slayer of Osiris.Set was the prototype of the Satanic pig demon. As Egyptianbarley and Egyptian religious beliefs associated with theagricultural mode of life reached this country at a very early Manchester Memoirs. Vol, Ixvi. (1922), No. 3 23 period, so apparently did the Egyptian pig taboo. In Troythe star-spangled sow mother took the place of the star-spangled goddess-cow Hathor. The sow mother was alsoknown in Crete where it was believed by one of the cults thatMinos, or Zeus-Dionysus was suckled by a sow (the goddess),as Romulus and Remus were by the wolf, and other heroeswere by the sheep, the deer, the cow, etc. Wherefore, ithas been recorded, all the Cretans consider this animal (thesow) sacred, and will not taste of its flesh; and the men ofPraesos perform sacred rites with the sow, making her the

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