[384] So in some Christian bodies.
[385] The details are given at great length by Westermarck, op. cit., chap. xxxvii, with references to authorities.
[386] It is by nature nonsacred, and so remains so long as it has not been made sacred by the special ceremonies that abound in savage communities. We have here the germ of the dualistic conception of man's constitution—the antagonism between spirit and body.
[387] Hollis, The Nandi, pp. 58, 92.
[388] Cf. the danger to a common man of eating a chief's food; see Frazer, Golden Bough, 2d ed., i, 321 f.
[389] Frazer, In Journal of the Anthropological Institute, xv, 94, quoted by Westermarck.
[390] H. Spencer, Principles of Sociology, i, § 140.
[391] In Christianity in connection with the eucharistic meal and other observances.
[392] The true principle is stated in Isa. lviii, 3 ff.
[393] Cf. article "Calendar" in Hastings, Encyclopædia of Religion and Ethics.