[1014] Taboo thus helps the growth of civil law (especially of penal codes) by its collection of offenses, though only on condition of retiring from the field. Cf. Frazer, Psyche's Task, p. 17 ff.
[1015] Lev. xiv, 48-53.
[1016] Lev. xii.
[1017] So in many popular festivals; see Spencer and Gillen, Native Tribes of Central Australia; Hopkins, Religions of India, p. 453 ff.; Westermarck, Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas, chap. xlii.
[1018] Examples are given in Crawley's Mystic Rose, pp. 223, 480 ff., chap. x ff.
[1019] Tylor, Early History of Mankind, 3d ed., p. 129 ff.; Hubert and Mauss, in Année sociologique, vii; Frazer, Early History of the Kingship, lecture ii, especially p. 52 ff. (he defines taboo as "negative magic," magic, that is, employed to avoid malefic influences); cf. Crawley, The Mystic Rose, chap. ix, for the transmission of sex characteristics.
[1020] Cf. R. R. Marett, "Is Taboo a Negative Magic?" (reply to Frazer), in Anthropological Essays presented to E. B. Tylor.
[1021] Cf. Marett, op. cit.
[1022] R. Taylor, New Zealand, chap. viii; Alexander, Short History of the Hawaiian People.
[1023] Shortland, Maori Religion.