The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Papyrus of Ani) · 65 of 357 · tr. E.A. Wallis Budge
Chapter 6 (part 21)
The Australian blacks kill a man, cut out his caul-fat, and rub themselves with it, "the belief being that all the qualifications, both physical and mental of the previous owner of the fat, were communicated to him who used it"; see Fraser, Golden Bough , vol.
ii., p.
88.]