secret societies
8 subentries
- secret societies (70:7sec)
- based on rite of blood-drinking (89:9.3)
- built social castes (70:7.15)
- employed by kings to collect taxes (70:7.18)
- for women (70:7.13)
- kept unscrupulous kings on anxious seat; practiced lynch law (70:7.16)
- power of mystery conferred on members (70:7.2-7)
- puberty initiation tests (70:7.7-15)
- sociopolitical and religio-mystical types (70:7.1)
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