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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

Note 1221 — Chapter IV · THE POSITIVE CULT—continued III.—Representative or Commemorative Rites

Joseph Ward Swain translation

Especially in sexual matters. In the ordinary corrobbori, sexual licence is frequent (see Spencer and Gillen, Nat. Tr., pp. 96-97, and Nor. Tr., pp. 136-137). On sexual licence in popular feasts in general, see Hagelstrange, Süddeutsches Bauernleben im Mittelalter, pp. 221 ff.

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