[1080] Ibid.
[1081] References on this question will be found in our memoir on La Prohibition de l'incest et ses origines (Année Sociol., I, pp. 1 ff.), and Crawley, The Mystic Rose, pp. 37 ff.
[1082] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 133.
[1083] See above, p. 121.
[1084] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., pp. 134 f.; Strehlow, I, p. 78.
[1085] Spencer and Gillen, Nor. Tr., pp. 167, 299.
[1086] In addition to the ascetic rites of which we have spoken, there are some positive ones whose object is to charge, or, as Howitt says, to saturate the initiate with religiousness (Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 535). It is true that instead of religiousness, Howitt speaks of magic powers, but as we know, for the majority of the ethnologists, this word merely signifies religious virtues of an impersonal nature.
[1087] Howitt, ibid., pp. 674 f.
[1088] Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., p. 454. Cf. Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 561.
[1089] Howitt, Nat. Tr., p. 557.