[364] In Ex. iv, 24 f., Yahweh is about to kill Moses, apparently for neglecting a ritual act.
[365] Examples in Tylor, Primitive Culture, ii, 429 ff.; cf. Knox, Religion in Japan, p. 39.
[366] See the practices described by Rivers, in The Todas, Index, s.vv. Bathing, Purification.
[367] Schneckenburger, Proselytentaufe; article "Proselyten" in Herzog, Real-Encyklopädie.
[368] In the New Testament baptism is said to be "for the remission of sins" (Acts ii, 38), and is called "bath of regeneration" (Tit. iii, 3); a quasi-magical power is attributed to it in 1 Cor. xv, 29.
[369] For the Mazdean use of urine see Vendidad, Fargard v, 160; xvi, 27, etc.; for use of buffalo's dung, Rivers, The Todas, pp. 32, 173 f., etc.
[370] Rivers, op. cit., p. 367.
[371] Compare, however, the use of natural pigments for decorative and religious purposes; see above, § 115 ff.
[372] The Toda ceremony of burning a woman's hand in the fifth month of pregnancy, and a child's hand on the occasion of a funeral (Rivers, The Todas, pp. 315, 374), may be purificatory, but this is not clear; cf. Frazer, in Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xi.
[373] Lev. xv, 30; xvi, 15 ff.