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This was intended as a chapter in a book on Hungarian folklore published by the author in 1925, but was not then included. Numerous rites are discussed in detail and seen to be fundamentally similar from country to country, but in some of them the meaning, which in essence is the overcoming of the Oedipus complex, is particularly clear.