Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Egypt, ancient, theocratic despotism of, 48; magicians in, 52, 261; confusion of magic and religion in, 53; ceremonies for the regulation of the sun, 78; kings blamed for the failure of the crops in, 87; sacred beast responsible for the course of nature in, 87; human gods in, 96, 265; kings of, 104, 142, 174, 238, 333, 378; queen of, 142; personal names in, 245; reapers’ lamentations and invocations to Isis in, 338, 371, 424, 443, 444; sacrifice of red-haired men in, 378, 379; human sacrifices in, 443; religious attitude to pigs in, 472; rams, sacred in, 500; bulls as scapegoats in, 571; story of the external soul in, 674
England, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; anointing the weapon instead of the wound in, 42; May-trees and May-bushes in, 121; village May-poles in, 123; Jack-in-the-Green in, 129; undoing locks and bolts at a death in, 243; Harvest Queen in, 405; harvest customs in, 406, 459, 460; killing the wren in, 536; the Yule log in, 637; the mistletoe in, 662, 663; birth-trees in, 682; cure for rupture or rickets in, 682
Europe, dancing or leaping high to make crops grow in, 28; the Hand of Glory in, 30; belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; treatment of the navel-string and after-birth in, 40; contagious magic in, 44; confusion of magic and religion in, 53, 54; belief in magic in modern, 56; rain-making ceremonies in, 69; the May-pole or May-tree in, 119, 120; Midsummer festival in modern, 153; fear of having one’s likeness taken in, 194; belief as to consummation of marriage being impeded by locks and knots, 240; the Corn-mother in Northern, 399–412; comparison between the Lityerses story and harvest customs in, 426–431; “hunting the wren” in, 536; transference of evil in, 543–546; annual expulsion of demons among the heathen of, 559; annual expulsion of witches in Central, 560; expulsion of embodied evils in, 568; the mistletoe in, 661; superstitions as to menstruous women in, 606; fire-festivals of, 609–641; Midsummer fires in, 622; need-fire in, 638
Evils, expulsion of, public, 546; occasional, 547; periodic, 551; embodied, 562; occasional, in a material vehicle, 563; periodic, in a material vehicle, 568
Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, the, 112, 198; taboos observed by their kings, 172
