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of Contact with Inanimate Objects.
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The common underlying principle in all these practices is, therefore, for the most part in connection with sacredness, and as a safeguarding of the person concerned against the loss of that sacredness. In a few cases, as we have seen, it is to acquire a special virtue.

F. W. H. Migeod.