Warriors and youths are sometimes forbidden to eat deer's flesh because it will make them timid, but they are encouraged to eat the flesh of tigers, bears, and other ferocious animals, because it will make them brave.

The Gonds, if they wish a child to be a good dancer, cause it to eat the flesh of a kind of hawk, which hangs gracefully poised over the water, with its wings continually flapping, on the look-out for its prey.

They think that by eating the flesh the limbs of the child will become supple like the wings of the bird.

If a child is slow in learning to speak, they give it to eat the leaves of the pipal tree, which rustle continually in the wind and are hence supposed to have the quality of making a noise.

All qualities, objective and instrumental, were conceived of in the same manner, because in the absence of verbs or abstract terms their proper relation to the subject and object could not be stated or understood.