First, the scapegoat provides a “visible and tangible vehicle for bearing away a community‟s invisible and intangible evils.” Second, “when a general clearance of evils is resorted to periodically, the interval between the celebrations of the ceremony is commonly a year, and the time of year when the ceremony takes place usually coincides with some well-marked change of season.” Third, Frazer states out “that this public and periodic expulsion of devils is commonly preceded or followed by a period of general license, during which the ordinary restraints of society are thrown aside, and all offences, short of the gravest, are allowed to pass unpunished.” And finally, Frazer notes that the scapegoat victim is often believed to be divine, “the employment of a divine man (woman) or animal as a scapegoat is especially to be noted.”