Chapter 30 THE DIVINE SCAPEGOAT

In many cases, however, at expulsion of the devils, the part of devil is played by a man who is driven away, often he is beaten away. Now I have already said that, by Mr. Frazer's theory (as I understand it), the mock-king at the Sac?a was 'sacrificed' in a double r?le; namely both as the king's proxy (the king being a god) and also as Tammuz, not