Survivals at Rome of previous eras of quasi-religious experience. Totemism not discernible. Taboo, and the means adopted of escaping from it; both survived at Rome into an age of real religion. Examples: impurity (or holiness) of new-born infants; of a corpse; of women in certain worships; of strangers; of criminals. Almost complete absence of blood-taboo. Iron. Strange taboos on the priest of Jupiter and his wife. Holy or tabooed places; holy or tabooed days; the word _religiosus_ as applied to both of these 24-46 LECTURE III ON THE THRESHOLD OF RELIGION: MAGIC Magic; distinction between magic and religion. Religious authorities seek to exclude magic, and did so at Rome. Few survivals of magic in the State religion. The _aquaelicium_. Vestals and runaway slaves. The magical whipping at the Lupercalia. The throwing of puppets from the _pons sublicius_. Magical processes surviving in religious ritual with their meaning lost. Private magic: _excantatio_ in the XII. Tables; other spells or _carmina_. Amulets: the _bulla_; _oscilla_ 47-67 LECTURE IV THE RELIGION OF THE FAMILY Continuity of the religion of the Latin agricultural family. What the family was; its relation to the _gens_. The _familia_ as settled on the land, an economic unit, embodied in a _pagus_. The house as the religious centre of the _familia_; its holy places. Vesta, Penates, Genius, and the spirit of the doorway. The _Lar familiaris_ on the land. Festival of the Lar belongs to the religion of the _pagus_: other festivals of the _pagus_. _Religio terminorum._ Religion of the household: marriage, childbirth, burial and cult of the dead 68-91 LECTURE V THE CALENDAR OF NUMA Beginnings of the City-state: the _oppidum_. The earliest historical Rome, the city of the four regions; to this belongs the surviving religious calendar. This calendar described; the basis of our knowledge of early Roman religion. It expresses a life agricultural, political, and military. Days of gods distinguished from days of man. Agricultural life the real basis of the calendar; gradual effacement of it. Results of a fixed routine in calendar; discipline, religious confidence. Exclusion from it of the barbarous and grotesque. Decency and order under an organising priestly authority 92-113 LECTURE VI THE DIVINE OBJECTS OF WORSHIP