Scatalogic Rites of All Nations; A Dissertation upon the Employment of Excrementitious Remedial Agents in Religion, Therapeutics, Divination, Witchcraft, Love-Philters, etc., in all parts of the globe. Based upon Original Notes and Personal Observation, and Upon Compilation from over One Thousand Authorities
New York, NY: W.H. Lowdermilk & Co., 1891. First Edition. Hardcover. Large octavo. xxiv + 496pp. Publisher's brown cloth gilt titled on spine, beveled edges, top edge gilt, bibliography and index. The first edition of this unusual work which offers the reader a "fair" examination of the place of feces, urine, etc. in ritual, myth and magic - with an emphasis on aboriginal cultures. It was considered so unusual that the title page is imprinted: "Not For General Purusal". Includes chapters on witchcraft, and amulets & talismans. Chapter headings: Urine dance of the Zunis; Feast Of Fools In Europe; Commemorative Character Of Religious Festivals; Human Excrement Used In Food By The Insane And Others; Employment Of Excrement In Food By Savage Tribes; Urine In Human Food; Ordure Of The Grand Lama Of Thibet; Stercoranistes; Bacchic Orgies Of The Greeks; Poisonous Mushrooms Used In Ur-Orgies; Mushroom In Connection With The Fairies; Use Of Poisonous Fungi Quite Probably Existed Among The Mexicans; Onion Adored By The Egyptians; Sacred Intoxication And Phallism; Inquiry Into The Druidical Use Of The Mistletoe; Cow Dung And Cow Urine In Religion; Ordure Alleged To Have Been Used In Food By The Israelites; Excrement Gods Of Romans And Egyptians; Latrines; Inquiry Into The Nature Of The Rites Connected With The Worship Of Bel-Phegor; Obscene Tenures; Tolls Of Flatulence Exacted Of Prostitutes In France; Obscene Survivals In The Games Of English Rustics; Urine And Ordure As Signs Of Mourning; Urine And Ordure In Industries; Urine In Ceremonial Ablutions; Urine In Ceremonial Observances; Ordure In Smoking; Courtship And Marriage; Siberian Hospitality; Parturition; Initiation Of Warriors, Confirmation; Hunting And Fishing; Divination; Omens, Dreams; Ordeals And Punishments, Terrestrial And Supernal; Insults; Mortuary Ceremonies; Myths; Urinoscopy, Or Diagnosis By Urine; Ordure And Urine In Medicine; Amulets And Talismans; Witchcraft, Sorcery, Charms, Spells, Incantations, Magic; A Few Remarks Upon Temple Or Sacred Prostitution, And Upon The Horns Of Cuckolds; Cures By Transplantation; Use Of The Lingam In India; Phallic Superstitions In France And Elsewhere; Burlesque Survivals; Worship Of Cocks And Hens; Persistence Of Filth Remedies; Explanation Of The Reason Why Human Ordure And Human Urine Were Employed In Medicine And Religious Ceremonies; Easter Eggs; Use Of Bladders In Making Excrement Sausages. Just a bit of light overall shelf wear, cloth slightly darkened, spine ends, corners and board edges lightly bumped, pages edges & endpapers browned, pages toned, text unmarked. Overall a tight, clean and complete VG+ copy. (no dust jacket). Quite scarce. Item #66796
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