Here the belief in the concrete virtue and substance of the written word is very clear.

The Hindus think that the continued repetition of the Gayatri or sacred prayer to the sun is a means of acquiring virtue, and the prayer is personified as a goddess.

The enunciation of the sacred syllable Aum or Om is supposed to have the most powerful results.

Homer's phrase 'winged words' perhaps recalls the period when the words were considered as physical entities which actually travelled through the air from the speaker to the hearer and were called winged because they went so fast.

A Korku clan has the name _lobo_ which means a piece of cloth.