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themselves, such as hair, points of fingers, drops of blood, &c. ? 
221. Are oblations and libations usual at meals P and to whom ? 
Austerities. —222. Do priests, devotees, or the whole nation 
perform religious austerities, such as fasting, flagellation, ex¬ 
posure, &e. P 223. What are the motives ? Are spiritual com¬ 
munications ever obtained by dreams, visions, &c. ? 224. Does 
the suffering of the worshipper give pleasure to the deity ? 
225. Is it a self-imposed punishment for offences ? 226. Are 
austere devotees considered holy ? and are they respected and 
supported by the people ? 227. Is public penance and mortifi¬ 
cation done on any solemn occasion ? 228. Can the divine an¬ 
ger be thus averted. 
Purification. —229. Are ceremonial purifications practised ? 
230. Are any persons at any time impure or unclean, and re¬ 
quiring purification, as after child-birth, during menstruation, 
after bloodshed or funeral, &c. ? 231. Do they purify them¬ 
selves, or is it the priest’s office ? 232. What is used for lustra¬ 
tion—water, urine, herbs, fire, smoke ? 233. Does any kind of 
baptism exist ? how soon after birth, and connected or not with 
the naming ? 234. Is there an understood distinction between 
physical, ceremonial, and moral purification ? 235. Are disease, 
ill-fortune, contamination by contact with the dead, violation 
of religious ordinances, and moral wickedness capable of being 
removed by purification ? 236. Is the cleaning of the house¬ 
hold and lighting of new fire a part of the purification P 237. Is 
unchastity &c. connected with ceremonial impurity? and how is 
it atoned ? 238. Are the same words used to denote bodily 
cleanness and moral purity ? 
Special and Miscellaneous Ceremonies , 8fc. —239. Are there 
other religious ceremonies connected with birth, marriage, 
burial, &c. ? 240. Is new fire made on special occasions ? and 
by whom ? 241. Is it customary to turn to the east or west or 
to bury corpses so ? 242. Are religious dances, pantomimes, 
processions in masks or disguise, &c. in use ? 243. Are games 
practised with a religious significance ? 244. Is the installation 
of a chief or king a religious act ? 245. Is any religious cere¬ 
mony used in treaties or alliances ? 
