# Memorials of Human Superstition being a paraphrase and commentary on the Historia Flagellantium of the Abbé Boileau, Doctor of the Sorbonne

Author: Lolme, Jean Louis de, 1740-1806

Genre: Category: History - Other

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/68362

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## Summary

words; at every word the Patient recites, he receives a lash from the other Man; which, when he has recited the whole verse three times over, makes up the prescribed number of thirty-nine; and at every time he says the last word, he strikes his own breast with his fist[12]. This operation being concluded, the _Agent_ in his turn becomes the _Patient_, and places himself in the same situation as the other had done, who then uses him in the same brotherly manner in which the former had used him, and they thus mutually chastise each other for their sins, and _rub one another_, Buxtorf observes, _like Asses_.

## Chapters

- [Book XIX. of his Spirit of Laws, relates, after the Historian of](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/memorials-of-human-superstition-being-a-paraphrase-and-commenta-39ec18cc/chapters/2/index.md)
- [lxxviii. This verse, in the Hebrew language, contains just thirteen](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/memorials-of-human-superstition-being-a-paraphrase-and-commenta-39ec18cc/chapters/1/index.md)