Though Feldstein grew up worshipping Barbra Streisand’s gumptious Funny Girl protagonist, Fanny Brice, the actor had never seen a female film character as fiercely herself as Johanna.

In some of the Hebrides they attributed the same oracular power to a large black stone by the sea-shore, which they approached with certain solemnities, and considered the first fancy which came into their own minds, after they did so, to be the undoubted dictate of the tutelar deity of the stone, and, as such, to be, if possible, punctually complied with.

Youngfolk are sometimes seen to have placed a ' puthi-mala ' (garland of beads) of blue, white or amber colour round their necks.

tacit consent : consent by silence, or by not raising an objection