| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
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| Greece, priestly kings in, 9; ceremony performed by persons supposed to have been dead, 15; homoeopathic magic in, 16, 34; sacrifice of pregnant victims to ensure fertility in, 28; contagious magic in, 44; rain-making in, 69, 77; sanctity of kings and chiefs in Homeric, 89; forests of, 110; tree worship in, 111; custom as to foundations of new buildings in, 191; custom as to man-slayers in, 216; names of the priests of the Eleusinian mysteries not to be mentioned in, 259; the eight years’ cycle in, 279; human sacrifices in, 290; mode of ridding the fields of mice in, 530; scapegoats in, 541, 578; Midsummer fires in, 631; stories of the external soul in, 670 |
| Greek belief that the sun rode in a chariot, 79; calendar, 279; charms, 31, 32; Church, ceremonies on Good Friday in the, 345; divinities who died and rose again, 386; maxim not to look at one’s reflection in water, 192; maxim not to wear rings, 243; mythology, Adonis in, 325, 327; ritual of expiatory sacrifices, 473; sanctuaries, iron not to be brought into, 224; superstitions as to certain woolen garments and stones, 32 |
| Green Corn Dance, 486 |
| ——George, 126, 128 |
| ——Wolf, Brotherhood of the, 628, 664 |
| Greenland, woman in child-bed thought to control the wind in, 80; belief in the mortality of the gods in, 264 |
| Grey, Sir George, 689 |
| Grimm, Jacob, 709 |
| Grove, Arician, 5, 163, 301; Balder’s, 608; soul of the chief in a sacred, 681 |
| Groves, sacred, 110, 111; to Diana, 140 |
| Guanches of Teneriffe, 75 |
| Guarani Indians, 29, 601 |
| Guatemala, the Indians of, 687 |
| Guayaquil, Indians of, 431 |
| Guaycurus, the, 82 |
| Guayquiries of the Orinoco, 605 |
| Guiana, Indians of, 181, 601 |
| Guinea, priestly kings in, 169; belief of negroes in dreams, 182; human sacrifices in, 433; annual sacrifice of oxen at Great Bassam, 467; expulsion of the devil in, 554; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 597 |
| Gunputty, elephant-headed god, 100 |
| Gypsies, Green George among the, 126; annual ceremony performed by the, 568 |
| Hag (wrach), name given to the last corn cut in Wales, 403, 404 |
| Haida Indians, 27, 35 |
| Hair, used in magic, 13, 233–235; charms, 28, 29, 32; tabooed, 231; disposal of cut, 233; external soul in, 670; strength bound up with, 680; of criminals, wizards, and witches shorn, 681 |
| Hair-cutting, ceremonies at, 233 |
| Halfdan the Black, Norwegian king, 379 |
| Hallowe’en, 609; fires, 632–636; divinations at, 634; witches, fairies, and hobgoblins let loose at, 634; and Beltane, the two chief fire festivals of the British Celts, 656 |
| Halmahera, driving away devils in, 548 |
| Hand of Glory, 30 |
| Hands, tabooed, 204–206, 208, 210, 212, 214, 233; not to be clasped, 240; of enemies eaten, 498 |
| Hannibal, his retirement from Italy, 348 |
| Hanover, harvest customs in, 400, 401, 454; Easter bonfires in, 615 |
| Hare, corn-spirit as, 452 |
| Hares not eaten lest they make the eaters timid, 495; witches changed into, 657 |
| Haroekoe, East Indian island, fisherman’s magic in, 18 |
| Harpocrates, the younger Horus, 364 |
| Harran, mourning for Tammuz in, 338; legend of Tammuz in, 442 human sacrifices in, 444 |
| Harvest, rain-charm at, 341; custom of the Arabs of Moab at, 372, 378; expulsion of devils after, 557, 575 |
| Harvest child, 406; cock, 451; customs, 400–410; goat, 454; hen, 451; May, 118, 124; mother, 401 |
| Harz Mountains, 42; Carnival in the, 307 |
| Hawaii, capture of souls by sorcerers in, 188; festival of Macahity in, 282, 283 |
| Hawk, Isis in the form of a, 364 |
| Hawks revered by the Ainos, 516 |
| Hawthorn at doors on May Day, 121 |
| Hays of Errol, 702 |
| Head, prohibition to touch the, 207, 230, 231; regarded as sacred, 230; tabooed, 230–231; supposed to be the residence of spirits, 230; of horse in Roman sacrifice, 478. See also Heads |
| Head-hunters, 433 |
| Headache, caused by clipped hair, 234, 237; transferred to animal, 540 |
| Heads, of lac gatherers not to be cleansed, 21; of man-slayers shaved, 215; of dead kings removed and kept, 295. See also Head |
| Heart, of Dionysus, 388, 389; of jackal not eaten lest it make the eater timid, 495; of lion or leopard eaten, 495; of waterouzel eaten to acquire wisdom and eloquence, 496; of wolf and of bear eaten to acquire courage, 496 |
| Hearts, of men and animals offered to the sun, 79, 589; of dead kings eaten by their successors, 295; of men sacrificed, 431; of men eaten to acquire their qualities, 497 |
| Heaven, between, and earth, 592–607; fire of, 644; Queen of, 711 |
| Hebrew prophets, their ethical religion, 51 |
| Heitsi-eibib, Hottentot god or hero, 264 |
| Helen of the Tree, 356 |
| Heliogabalus, sun-god at Emesa, 330 |
| Helle and Phrixus, children of King Athamas, 290 |
| Hemp, promoting the growth of, 28, 624 |
| Hen, sacrificed by woodman after felling tree, 112; heart of, not eaten, 495 |
| Hera, adoption of Hercules by, 14; and Zeus, their marriage, 143 |
| Hercules, 14, 425, 443 |
| Hercynian forest, 109 |
| Herdsmen dread witches and wolves, 649 |
| Hermotimus of Clazomenae, 185 |
| Hermutrude, legendary queen of Scotland, 155 |
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