KnowraScapegoatLinked fromLinked fromThe 10 pages that link to Scapegoat, each with the reason it gives.All 10Broader topic 3Related 6Compared with 1SacrificeRelated: Scapegoat rituals can remove impurity or guilt through symbolic transfer rather than divine feeding.Animal sacrificeCompared with: Unlike an offering consumed by a deity or community, a scapegoat carries pollution or blame away.Book of LeviticusBroader topic: This ritual in Leviticus 16 dramatizes the removal of communal wrongdoing.The Golden BoughRelated: Frazer describes rites that transfer communal evils onto a victim and remove them.Holy of HoliesRelated: Its rite accompanied the sanctuary purification centered on the high priest’s entry.William Holman HuntBroader topic: Hunt made this biblical image during travel in the Holy Land, using the landscape as evidence.Human sacrificeRelated: Scapegoating can accompany sacrificial logic, but does not necessarily involve killing or an offering.The Ones Who Walk Away from OmelasRelated: The child’s suffering is the hidden price assigned to the city’s shared happiness.Daphne du MaurierBroader topic: Its identity swap develops her recurring fascination with doubles and divided selves.BogeymanRelated: Calling an unwanted figure the bogeyman can concentrate diffuse anxieties into one target.