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Scapechicken

>Dear Basya:
>
>Your song is a hoot;  or should I say, a cackle?
>
>It is an example of the folk process in action.

It also, not uncleverly, I thought, makes the anthropological/mythopoetic
link with the scapegoat (scapechicken!)  -- a point that several
list-correspondents seem to have missed.  (See Leviticus XVI.) And of
course, folk music is the perfect medium for preserving folk custom.  

Jeffrey Miller
Burden of Proof Research Inc.
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Toronto, Ontario  Canada  M5P 1H3
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