Passover

===Apotropaic ritual===
The Passover ritual is thought by modern scholars to have its origins in an [[Apotropaic magic|apotropaic]] rite, unrelated to [[the Exodus]], to ensure the protection of a family home, a rite conducted wholly within a clan.<ref>{{cite book|first=Jeffrey G.|last=Audirsch|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|title=The Legislative Themes of Centralization: From Mandate to Demise|publisher=Wipf and Stock Publishers|year=2014|page=108|isbn=978-1620320389|access-date=April 23, 2016|archive-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403034602/https://books.google.com/books?id=yQaQBAAAQBAJ&pg=PA108|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Hyssop]] was employed to daub the blood of a slaughtered sheep on the lintels and door posts to ensure that demonic forces could not enter the home.<ref>{{cite book|first=Bernard M.|last=Levinson|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57|title=Deuteronomy and the Hermeneutics of Legal Innovation|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=1997|pages=57–58|isbn=978-0195354577|access-date=April 23, 2016|archive-date=April 3, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403035045/https://books.google.com/books?id=U-GJFShHwzsC&pg=PA57|url-status=live}}</ref>