the Story that the Jay Can Make Itself and ITS Nest Invisible to Escape the Attention of Birds and Other animals of Prey. But the View is held in the Val Dtlliez. There are also many Legends of metamorphoses and spontaneous Gen eration. Thus Plane Trees are. Generate believed to mosquitoes, and dung heaps' to give birth to worms. Some of these Beliefs May be Due to the Age-Old Supersition of the 'miasma' 'which marshes and Other Places were reputed to give off unhealthy. A Survival- of. this may even be found in a widespread belief that the breath of certain animals, eg, of the frog, is in itself noxious.