[1874] Primitive Culture, ii, 375 ff.; cf. Spencer, Principles of Sociology, i, 280 ff.
[1875] So often in ascetic practices.
[1876] So, for example, in the Imitatio Christi.
[1877] Euripides, Iphigeneia in Aulis, 1581 ff. (Iphigeneia); Gen. xxii (Isaac); and similar procedures in Hesiod, Theogony, 535 ff.; Ovid, Fasti, iii, 339 ff.; Aitareya Brahmana, ii, 8; Çatapatha Brahmana, i, 2, 3, 5.
[1878] The expulsion of sin or evil in the person of a beast or a human being is a totally different conception. See above, § 143.
[1879] Isa. liii.
[1880] Isa. xl, 2.
[1881] Cf. §§ 128, 217 ff., 1023.
[1882] Other examples are given in Fowler, Roman Festivals, pp. 81 (shepherd sacrifice), 96 (Feriæ Latinæ), 194 (at the temple of Hercules), and cf. his Religious Experience of the Roman People, Index, s.v. Meals, Sacrificial.
[1883] Foucart, Des associations religieuses chez les Grecs. For the Isis ceremony cf. Apuleius, Metamorphoses, xi, 24 f.