| He made observations regarding initiation cicatrices, the fact that the teeth of male initiands were not removed. |
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| During this ambiguous period, the common attributes of initiands are stressed, originating a peculiar social bond that Turner calls communitas. |
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| On physical return the initiands find that they are different, they do not see things the same way they once did. |
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| The old men knew they were lying when they maintained that the sound of the bullroarer was the voice of supernatural beings or that initiands were to be swallowed by monsters. |
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