| Show banish tibet scapegoat when crops are failure when the crops fail or other trouble comes on the people of tibet the tribe assembles and a goat led by a black rope is brought before them by its owner the man pleads tor for its we uie and very likely in the distant past he may have brought his goat as a substitute for the sacrifice of his own but now the only punishment is the banishment of the goat from the flock A white rope is substituted lor for the black one athe goat is then gayly adorned and having been well fed is driven off to the hills an exile no one may touch it or lay jay a load on it it is a wanderer doing penance for the sins ot of the people in other parts of tibet there used to be and may be still a man he was one who was either destitute or had done some wrong like the goat he was first well fed and then compelled to roam for three years in central tibet a banished man who would have found it hard to live in the bitter winter but whom none would help |
