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Scatalogic Rites of All Nations

by John G. Bourke

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  1. 1Preface
  2. 2I — Preliminary Remarks
  3. 3II — The Urine Dance of the Zuñis
  4. 4III — The Feast of Fools in Europe
  5. 5IV — The Commemorative Character of Religious Festivals
  6. 6V — Human Excrement Used in Food by the Insane and Others
  7. 7VI — The Employment of Excrement in Food by Savage Tribes
  8. 8VII — Urine in Human Food
  9. 9VIII — The Ordure of the Grand Lama of Thibet
  10. 10IX — The Stercoranistes
  11. 11X — The Bacchic Orgies of the Greeks
  12. 12XI — Poisonous Mushrooms Used in Ur-Orgies
  13. 13XII — The Mushroom in Connection With the Fairies
  14. 14XIII — A Use of Poisonous Fungi Quite Probably Existed Among the Me…
  15. 15XIV — The Onion Adored by the Egyptians
  16. 16XV — Sacred Intoxication and Phallism
  17. 17XVI — An Inquiry Into the Druidical Use of the Mistletoe
  18. 18XVII — Cow Dung and Cow Urine in Religion
  19. 19XVIII — Ordure Alleged to Have Been Used in Food by the Israelites
  20. 20XIX — Excrement Gods of Romans and Egyptians
  21. 21XX — Latrines
  22. 22XXI — An Inquiry Into the Nature of the Rites Connected With the Wo…
  23. 23XXII — Obscene Tenures
  24. 24XXIII — Tolls of Flatulence Exacted of Prostitutes in France
  25. 25XXIV — Obscene Survivals in the Games of the English Rustics
  26. 26XXV — Urine and Ordure as Signs of Mourning
  27. 27XXVI — Urine and Ordure in Industries
  28. 28XXVII — Urine in Ceremonial Ablutions
  29. 29XXVIII — Urine in Ceremonial Observances
  30. 30XXIX — Ordure in Smoking
  31. 31XXX — Courtship and Marriage
  32. 32XXXI — Siberian Hospitality
  33. 33XXXII — Parturition
  34. 34XXXIII — Initiation of Warriors — Confirmation
  35. 35XXXIV — Hunting and Fishing
  36. 36XXXV — Divination — Omens — Dreams
  37. 37XXXVI — Ordeals and Punishments, Terrestrial and Supernal
  38. 38XXXVII — Insults
  39. 39XXXVIII — Mortuary Ceremonies
  40. 40XXXIX — Myths
  41. 41XL — Urinoscopy, or Diagnosis by Urine
  42. 42XLI — Ordure and Urine in Medicine
  43. 43XLII — Amulets and Talismans
  44. 44XLIII — Witchcraft — Sorcery — Charms — Spells — Incantations — Magic
  45. 45XLIV — A Few Remarks Upon Temple or Sacred Prostitution, and Upon t…
  46. 46XLV — Cures by Transplantation
  47. 47XLVI — The Use of the Lingam in India
  48. 48XLVII — Phallic Superstitions in France and Other Parts of Europe
  49. 49XLVIII — Burlesque Survivals
  50. 50XLIX — The Worship of Cocks and Hens
  51. 51L — The Persistence of Filth Remedies
  52. 52Li — An Explanation of the Reason Why Human Ordure and Human Urine…
  53. 53LII — Easter Eggs
  54. 54LIII — The Use of Bladders in Making Excrement Sausages
  55. 55LIV — Conclusion
  56. 56Addenda
  57. 57Bibliography of the Principal Authorities Consulted

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