'Which a Man Shrinks from Bearing'
The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer: Chapter 3, sections 13-15, Transference of Evil
“The notion that we can transfer our pains and grief to some other being who may bear them instead...the savage fancies that it is equally possible to transfer his...accumulated misfortunes and sins...arises from a very obvious confusion between the physical and mental...”
Thus Frazer assigns the most highly assigned religious creed of modernity to the …