On the requirement to break a bough in Frazer’s The Golden Bough

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This is a one page handout, presenting a puzzle from J.G. Frazer regarding why, to become the priest of Diana at Nemi, one had to first break a bough in the sacred grove.

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Terence Rajivan Edward
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