Category: Archaeology & Anthropology
§ 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects. § 2. The Transference to Stones and Sticks. § 3. The Transference to Animals. § 4. The Transference to Men. § 5. The Transference of Evil in Europe. § 6. The Nailing of Evils.
(M238) In an earlier part of this book we saw that many peoples have been used to observe an annual period of license, when the customary restraints of law and morality are thro...
7. CHAPTER I. THE TRANSFERENCE OF EVIL.(M1) In the preceding parts of this work we have traced the practice of killing a god among peoples in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society; and I have atte...
9. CHAPTER III. THE PUBLIC EXPULSION OF EVILS.(M83) We can now understand why those general clearances of evil, to which from time to time the savage resorts, should commonly take the form of a forcible expulsion of devils....
10. CHAPTER IV. PUBLIC SCAPEGOATS.(M128) Thus far we have dealt with that class of the general expulsion of evils which I have called direct or immediate. In this class the evils are invisible, at least to commo...
12. CHAPTER VI. HUMAN SCAPEGOATS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY.(M178) We are now prepared to notice the use of the human scapegoat in classical antiquity. Every year on the fourteenth of March a man clad in skins was led in procession throu...
15. Part i. bk. vii. ch. 6, vol. ii. pp. 228 _sqq._; Molina, “Fables andRites of the Yncas,” in _Rites and Laws of the Yncas_ (Hakluyt Society, 1873), pp. 20 _sqq._; J. de Acosta, _History of the Indies_, bk. v. ch. 28, vol. ii. pp. 375 _sq._ (Haklu...
8. CHAPTER II. THE OMNIPRESENCE OF DEMONS.(M51) In the foregoing chapter the primitive principle of the transference of ills to another person, animal, or thing was explained and illustrated. A consideration of the mean...
13. CHAPTER VII. KILLING THE GOD IN MEXICO.(M214) By no people does the custom of sacrificing the human representative of a god appear to have been observed so commonly and with so much solemnity as by the Aztecs of anci...
17. Book iii. Hymn 55, stanza 18 (vol. ii. pp. 76 _sq._).782 J. A. MacCulloch, in Dr. J. Hastings’s _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, iii. (Edinburgh, 1910) pp. 78 _sqq._ Compare S. de Ricci, “Le calendrier Gaulois de Coligny,”...
16. Part iii. (Oxford, 1894) p. 108 (_Sacred Books of the East_, vol.647 On the positive benefits supposed in certain cases to flow from a beating compare S. Reinach, “La flagellation rituelle,” _Cultes, Mythes et Religions_, i. (Paris, 1905) pp....
11. CHAPTER V. ON SCAPEGOATS IN GENERAL.(M172) In the first place, it will not be disputed that what I have called the immediate and the mediate expulsions of evil are identical in intention; in other words, that whet...
6. Chapter VIII. The Saturnalia and Kindred Festivals.§ 1. The Roman Saturnalia. § 2. The King of the Bean and the Festival of Fools. § 3. The Saturnalia and Lent. § 4. Saturnalia in Ancient Greece. § 5. Saturnalia in Western Asia....
2. Chapter I. The Transference of Evil.§ 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects. § 2. The Transference to Stones and Sticks. § 3. The Transference to Animals. § 4. The Transference to Men. § 5. The Transference of...
4. Chapter IV. Public Scapegoats.5. Chapter VI. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity.3. Chapter III. The Public Expulsion of Evils.1. Part VI: The Scapegoat.