"Purificatory" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... occasions would be reprobated, is regarded as excusable and harmless." Outside Europe, the Berbers of Morocco still maintain this midsummer festival, and in the Rif they light bonfires; here the fires seem to be now regarded as mainly purificatory, but they are associated with eating ceremonies which are still regarded as multiplicative. (Westermarck, "Midsummer Customs in ...
— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis
... Whether the use of purificatory water is to be traced to the sense of moral or spiritual sin is doubtful to my mind; in view of the general nature of primitive Shinto. The interpretation given the system by W.E. Griffis, in his volume on the "Religions of Japan," ...
— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick |
