 Australian Aborigines would rub themselves with a human victim's caul fat to gain his powers.In religions like Christianity where animal sacrifice is no longer practiced, it is common to consecrate the oil in a special ceremony.According to scholars belonging to the early part of the twentieth century (Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Bonnet, Cothenet, Kutsch, Martin-Pardey) officials of ancient Egypt were anointed as part of a ceremony that installed them into office.