Motif
expulsion beyond civic boundary
expulsion_beyond_civic_boundary
A motif of the Sacrifice and Offering family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
2 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 4552-4624 confidence: high
In Siam, a woman was formerly carried through all streets with music, insulted and pelted with dirt, thrown on a dunghill or thorn hedge outside the ramparts, forbidden to return, and believed to absorb malign influences and evil spirits.
The Siamese woman is thrown outside the ramparts and forbidden to return, and the Tibetan victim is marched to the city walls and driven outside Lhása.
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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 4874-4924 confidence: high
At Chaeronea the ceremony called the “expulsion of hunger” involved a slave beaten with rods of agnus castus and turned out with the words, “Out with hunger, and in with wealth and health.”
Several scapegoats are turned out, cast out, killed outside the city, conveyed beyond the boundary, or have ashes cast into the sea.
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