Comparative mythology corpus

Ritual Pollution From Contact With Death

1 appearances across 1 tradition groups.

Evidence

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TraditionSourcePassageConfidenceEvidenceRecord
Roman The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books VIII-XV EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION. / EXPLANATION.; lines 7108-7175 high Persons engaged in burial were considered polluted and excluded from temples until purification; Greeks purified returned persons previously thought dead by swaddling and treating them like newborn infants. record