[1217] See Nat. Tr., pp. 329 ff.; Nor. Tr., pp. 210 ff.
[1218] This is the case, for example, with the corrobbori of the Molonga among the Pitta-Pitta of Queensland and the neighbouring tribes (see Roth, Ethnog. Studies among the N.W. Central Queensland Aborigines, pp. 120 ff.).—References for the ordinary corrobbori will be found in Stirling, Rep. of the Horn Expedition to Central Australia, Part IV, p. 72, and in Roth, op. cit., pp. 117 ff.
[1219] On this question see the excellent work of Culin, Games of the North American Indians (XXIVth Rep. of the Bureau of Am. Ethnol.).
[1220] See above, p. 81.
[1221] Especially in sexual matters. In the ordinary corrobbori, sexual licence is frequent (see Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., pp. 96-97, and Nor. Tr., pp. 136-137). On sexual licence in popular feasts in general, see Hagelstrange, Süddeutsches Bauernleben im Mittelalter, pp. 221 ff.
[1222] Thus the exogamic rules must be violated in the course of certain religious ceremonies (see above, p. 216, n. 1). A precise ritual meaning probably could not be found for these excesses. It is merely a mechanical consequence of the state of super-excitation provoked by the ceremony. It is an example of rites having no definite object themselves, but which are mere discharges of energy (see above, p. 381). The native does not assign them a definite end either; he merely says that if these licences are not committed, the rite will not produce its effects; the ceremony will fail.
[1223] Here are the very words used by Spencer and Gillen: "They (the ceremonies connected with the totems) are often, though by no means always, associated with the performance of the ceremonies attendant upon initiation of young men, or are connected with the Intichiuma" (Nor. Tr., p. 178).
[1224] We leave aside the question of what this character consists in. It is a problem which would lead us into a very long and technical development and which must therefore be treated by itself. Moreover, it does not concern the propositions established in this present work.
[1225] This is chapter vi, entitled Ceremonies Connected with the Totems.
[1226] Strehlow, III, pp. 1-2.