] Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, p. 365 ff.; Fowler,
_Roman Festivals_, Index. The Romans, with their
thoroughness where public religion was concerned, divided
all the days of the year into the three classes, _dies
festi_ (festive, for worship), _dies profesti_ (for ordinary
business), and _dies intercisi_ (mixed, partly for religion,
partly for ordinary affairs).
[1008] Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_, iii,
29 (Burma).
[1009] J. H. King, _The Supernatural_, Index, s.v. _Luck_.
[1010] Many examples are given in Westermarck's _Origin and
Development of the Moral Ideas_, chap. xxxvii f.; cf. above,
Sec. 204 ff., on fasting.
[1011] Howitt, _Native Tribes of South-East Australia_, p.
630 ff.
[1012] E. A. Gait, article "Caste" in Hastings,
_Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics_.
[1013] Frazer, _Golden Bough_, 2d ed., i, 321.
[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 _Annee 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_.
[1024] Exod. xxiii, 10 f.
[1025] Livy, i, 31.
[1026] Codrington, _The Melanesians_, p. 215 ff.; George
Brown, _Melanesians and Polynesians_, p. 273 ff.
[1027] Seligmann, _The Melanesians of British New Guinea_,
Index, s.v. _Taboo_.
[1028] H. Ling Roth, _The Natives of S
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