celebrated by the Persians, [402]

Sacred dramas, as magical rites, [373] sqq.

—— harlots, [370], [371], [372]

—— slaves, [370]

Sacrifice, human, successive mitigations of, [396] sq., [408];

the Brahmanical theory of, [410] sq.

Sacrifices, human, their influence on cosmogonical theories, [409] sqq.;

of deified men, [409]

Sacrificial victims, beating people with the skins of, [265]

Sagar in India, use of scapegoat at, [190] sq.