Chapter II: Positive and Negative Mana (Taboo)

122 I. 10. 15-16. 123 Servius on Vergil's Aeneid XI. 543; Festus: Camillus (Mueller, p. 43). 124 Festus: Patrimi et matrimi pueri (Mueller, p. 245). 125 See Frazer, The Fasti of Ovid, Vol. II, pp. 200-201. 126 Carmen Saeculare, passim. See E. S. McCartney, "The Role of the Child in Supplications," in The Classical Weekly, XXII, p. 151. 127 Ernest Crawley, Studies of Savages and Sex, p. 178. 128 Lafcadio Hearn, Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan, p. 125. 129 Numbers V. 2. 130 Numbers XIX. 11-16. 131 Apuleius, Metamorphoses II. 21-26; see also Lucan, Bellum Civile Vi. 529-537. 132 Epodi V. 133 See Theda Kenyon, Witches Still Live, Chapter XXV. 134 Petronius, Satyricon CXXXIV. 1. 135 Satyricon LIV. 136 Velleius Paterculus II. 4, 6. 137 Plutarch, Flaminius VII. 4. 138 Livy II. 8. 6-7. 139 Livy III. 22. 1. 140 Tacitus, Annales I. 62. 141 Gellius, Noctes Atticae XVI. 4. 4. 142 Festus: Aqua et igni (Mueller, p. 2). 143 Fasti II. 23; see Festus: Everriator (Mueller, p. 77). 144 Frazer, The Fasti of Ovid, Vol. II, p. 279. 145 Frazer, The Fasli of Ovid, Vol. II, pp. 279-283. 146 Festus: Patrimi (Mueller, p. 245). 147 Frazer, The Fasti of Ovid, Vol. 11, p. 197. 148 Gellius, Noctes Atticae X. 15.24. 149 Servius on Vergil's Aeneid III. 64. 150 Ovid, Fasti II. 557-564. 151 Cicero, De Legibus II. 23-58. 152 Servius on Vergil's Aeneid XI. 206. 153 Gaius, Institutiones II. 4. 154 Varro, De Lingua Latina V. 157. On sacer as equivalent to taboo see Frazer's article on "Taboo" in the Encyclopedia Britannica, Vol. xxiii.

155 Ovid, Fasti I. 627-629. 156 Varro, De Lingua Latina VII. 84. 157 Festus: Mortuae pecudis (Mueller, p. 161). 158 Leviticus XI. 39; see also Leviticus VII. 24. 159 Ovid, Fasti II. 283-284. 160 Petronius, Satyricon XLIV. 161 See Fasti VI. 397. 162 Ovid, Fasti I. 57-58; Festus: Religiosus (Mueller, p. 278); Varro, De Lingua Latina VI. 29; Livy VI. 1, 11; Macrobius, Saturnalia I. 15, 22, I. 16, 21-25; Gellius, Noctes Atticae V. 17, 1-2; Festus Nonarum (Mueller, p. 178); Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae XXV. 163 Livy XXII. 10. 164 I owe this explanation to Frazer, The Fasti of Ovid, Vol. II, pp. 79-82. 165 Festus: Mundus and Mundum (Mueller, pp. 154 and 156) Macrobius, Saturnalia 1. 16, 16-18 (quoting Varro). 166 Joannes Lydus, De Mensibus XIV. 29 (Wuensch): see Ovid, Fasti II. 557-558. 563-564. 167 The Religious Experience of the Roman People, p. 40. 168 Festus: Nonarum (Mueller, p. 178).