XV-THE FIRE-DRILL. Vestal fire at Rome rekindled by the fire-drill, Use of the fire-drill by savages, The fire-sticks regarded by savages as male and female, Fire-customs of the Herero, Sacred fire among the Herero maintained in the chiefs hut by his unmarried daughter, The Herero chief as priest of the hearth, Sacred Herero fire rekindled by fire-sticks, which are regarded as male and female, and are made from the sacred ancestral tree The sacred Herero hearth a special seat of the ancestral spirits, Sacred fire-sticks of the Herero represent deceased ancestors, Sacred fire-boards as family deities among the Koryaks and Chuckchees.
