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In the foregoing chapter the primitive principle of the transference of ills to another person, animal, or thing was explained and illustrated. But similar means have been adopted to free a whole community from diverse evils that afflict it. Such attempts to dismiss at once the accumulated sorrows of a people are by no means rare or exceptional; on the contrary they have been made in many lands, and from being occasional they tend to become periodic and annual.
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Frazer, J.G. (1990). The Public Expulsion of Evils. In: The Golden Bough. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-00400-3_56
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