Scatalogic Rites of All Nations: A dissertation upon the employment of excrementitious remedial agents in religion, therapeutics, divination, witchcraft, love-philters, etc., in all parts of the globe

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The generally sacred character of dancing.—Fray Diego Duran’s account of the Mexican festivals.—The Urine Dance of the Zuñis may conserve a tradition of the time when vile aliment was in use.