Motif
Communal noise, procession, and purification in epidemic rite
communal_noise_procession_and_purification_in_epidemic_rite
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
1 occurrences
1 traditions
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 4349-4409 confidence: medium
Buro: a prepared, provisioned prao carries away disease-demons; gongs and drums frighten demons; young men strike people with water-dipped branches, put the branches in the prao, tow it far out to sea, address Grandfather Small-pox, and afterward the people bathe in the sea.
Buro participants beat gongs and drums and later bathe in the sea; Tikopia participants carry a canoe around the island with cries and beating of bushes before launching it.
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