HOLY DAYS

Characteristics of religious festivals, p. 85.—Festival times often marked by cessation of labour, pp. 85, 86.—Origin of the conception of a “holy” day, pp. 86, 87.—Consecration of holy days to particular divinities, pp. 87, 88.—Connection between tabooed days and holy days, p. 88.—The taboo element in the festivals observed by Dravidian peoples of India, pp. 88-90.—The Hebrew Day of First-fruits, pp. 90, 91.—Greek holy days, p. 91.—The Athenian Plynteria, pp. 92, 93.—The Roman Vestalia, pp. 93, 94.—Ferial days of the Romans as tabooed days, pp. 94-100.