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 chief’s 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.