Note 66 — XXX. COURTSHIP AND MARRIAGE.
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Les Catharistes qui étoient une espèce choisie de Manichéens, pétrissoient le pain Eucharistique avec la semence humaine.—(Thiers, “Superstitions,” etc., Paris, 1741, vol. ii. lib. 2, chap. i. p. 216; and Picart, “Coutumes et Cérémonies,” etc., Amsterdam, 1729, vol. viii. p. 79.)
E. B. Tylor says that “about A.D. 700 John of Osun, patriarch of Armenia, wrote a diatribe against the sect of Paulicians” (who were believed to be the descendants of the Manicheans, and in turn to have transmitted their doctrines to the Albigenses). In the course of the diatribe the patriarch declares that “they mix wheaten flour with the blood of infants, and therewith celebrate their communion.”—(E. B. Tylor, “Primitive Culture,” London, 1871, vol. i. p. 69.)