Motif
annual expulsion of human or personified scapegoat
annual_expulsion_of_human_or_personified_scapegoat
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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comparative
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2) / CONTENTS; lines 4626-4706 confidence: high
Halberstadt: each year a man believed stained with heinous sins is brought to church on the first day of Lent in mourning garb with muffled head and is turned out after service.
Halberstadt has an annual chosen man expelled from church during Lent; Entlebuch annually drives Posterli from the village into neighboring territory.
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