Note 87 — Chapter I · TABOOED DAYS AT CRITICAL EPOCHS
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The elpanam consists of several large structures, which serve as a guest-house for strangers and as a town-hall for feasts and public gatherings. The institution is found under different names in many of the East Indian islands, and even more widely. See H. Webster, Primitive Secret Societies, New York, 1908, pp. 8 sqq.