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Word: transsub (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1929-1929
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Usage:

...furies, into the forest to share and slake their ecstasy." Author Seabrook understood the totality of this abandon following as it did upon ceremonial Voodoo rites of purification. He himself, a white, an American, shared in the rites. At his initiation ceremony, he says, he witnessed the virtual transsub stantiation of girl into goat, at the sacrificial altar. Goat moaned, girl bleated; and when finally the goat was killed it was the girl that cried out in death agony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goat Moaned, Girl Bleated | 2/4/1929 | See Source »

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