Note 698 — Chapter VII · ORIGINS OF THESE BELIEFS—end Origin of the Idea of the Totemic Principle or Mana

The corrobbori is distinguished from the real religious ceremonies by the fact that it is open to women and uninitiated persons. But if these two sorts of collective manifestations are to be distinguished, they are, none the less, closely related. We shall have occasion elsewhere to come back to this relationship and to explain it.