| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
Subject Index |
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| Jay, blue, as scapegoat, 545 |
| Jeoud, sacrificed by his father, 293 |
| Jerome on the worship of Adonis, 346 |
| —— of Prague, 118 |
| Jerusalem, the Temple at, 225; mourning for Tammuz at, 326; religious music at, 334 |
| Jewish hunters, 228 |
| Jewitt, John R., 698 |
| Jews, attitude of, to the pig, 472; their ablutions, 473; use of scapegoats, 569, 572 |
| Jinn, 145, 540 |
| Jinnee of the sea, virgins married to a, 146 |
| Judah, idolatrous kings of, 79 |
| Judas, effigies of, burnt, 615, 616 |
| Jukos, the, of Nigeria, 270 |
| Julian, the Emperor, 109, 336, 346 |
| Juniper berries, houses fumigated with, 560 |
| Juno, 150, 151, 164, 165; Moneta, 150 |
| Jupiter, Roman kings in the character of, 148, 152; as god of the oak, the rain, and the thunder, 160; and Juno, doubles of Janus (Dianus) and Diana, 164; and Dionysus, 388 |
| —— Capitoline, 148, 150; Elicius, 149; Latian, 150; Liber, temple of, 225 |
| Jutland, superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, 702 |
| Juturna, a water nymph, 165 |
| Kabyle story of the external soul, 674 |
| Kachins of Burma, 219 |
| Kadiak, island off Alaska, 208 |
| Kai, tribe in New Guinea, 498, 581, 694 |
| Kakian association in Ceram, 696 |
| Kalamba, a Congo chief, 198 |
| Kali, Indian goddess, 94 |
| Kalmucks, the, 534; story of the external soul among the, 675 |
| Kamilaroi, the, 498 |
| Kamtchatkans, the, 78, 520, 529 |
| Kangaroo, eaten to make eater swift-footed, 496 |
| Kansas Indians, 496 |
| Kapus or Reddis in Madras Presidency, 73 |
| Kara-Kirghiz, the, 120 |
| Karens of Burma, 183, 185, 230, 415 |
| Karma-tree, ceremony over a, 342 |
| Karo-Bataks of Sumatra, 40, 185, 233 |
| Karok Indians of California, 528 |
| Karpathos, island of, 545 |
| Katajalina, an Australian spirit, 693 |
| Kavirondo, tribes of, purification of manslayers among the, 215 |
| Kayans of Borneo, 82, 117, 211, 221, 414, 496 |
| Kei Islands, the, magical telepathy in, 24, 26; treatment of the navel-string in, 40; expulsion of demons in, 548; birth custom in, 679 |
| Kekchi Indians of Guatemala, 138 |
| Keramin tribe of New South Wales, 76 |
| Keremet, a god of the Wotyaks, 144 |
| Kettles used to mimic thunder, 77 |
| Key of the field, 430 |
| Keys, bunch of, as a charm, 226 |
| Khalíj, old canal at Cairo, 370 |
| Khan, ceremony at visiting a Tartar, 198; the Great, 228 |
| Khön-ma, Tibetan goddess, 492 |
| Khonds, the, 256, 434, 557 |
| Khor-Adar Dinka, the, 270 |
| Kibanga, king of, 270 |
| Kickapoo Indians, 214 |
| Kid, surname of Dionysus, 390 |
| Kidneys tabooed to Malagasy soldiers, 22 |
| Killer, of the Elephant, official who throttles sick kings, 271; of the Rye-woman, 428 |
| Killing the spirit of the wind, 82; the divine king, 264–283; the tree-spirit, 296–323; the divine animal, 499–518; a god, 533, 538, 587–592 |
| Kimbunda, the, of West Africa, 498 |
| King, the killing of the divine, 264–283; his life sympathetically bound up with the prosperity of the country, 267, 268, 592; sacrifice of his son, 289–293; responsible for weather and crops, 292. See also Kings |
| King and Queen, at Athens, 9; at Whitsuntide, 132, 299; of May, 132, 299, 320 |
| King, the Grass, 130, 299; the Leaf, 130; the Roman, as Jupiter, 148 |
| King of the Bean, 586; of the Calf, 458; of Fire, 108, 176, 266; of Rain, 70; of Rain and Storm, 107; of Sacred Rites at Rome, 9, 106, 152, 157; of Water, 108, 176, 266; of the Wood at Nemi, 1, 3, 8, 106, 140, 147, 163, 164, 167, 269, 296, 300, 301, 586, 593, 703, 710; of the Years at Lhassa, 573, 574 |
| King Hop in Siam, 284, 285 |
| King’s evil, 90, 204 |
| —— Race at Whitsuntide, 129 |
| Kings, priestly, 9, 169, 203; Teutonic, 9; magicians as, 83–91; touch for scrofula, 90; divinity of, 91; as gods in India, 100; temples built in honour of, 104; sacrifices to, 104; of nature, 106–109; of rain, 108; of fire and water, 108; Roman, 147–149, 151, 152; supernatural powers attributed to, 149, 168; paternity of, 154; their lives regulated by strict rules, 168, 194; taboos observed by, 171; beaten before coronation, 176; portraits of, not on coins, 193; guarded against the magic of strangers, 198; not to be seen eating and drinking, 198; forbidden to leave their palaces, 200; tabooed, 202; foods tabooed to, 238; names of, tabooed, 257–259; killed when strength fails, 265; attacks on, permitted, 267, 275; worshipped after death, 268; killed at the end of a fixed term, 274; dying by deputy, 278; temporary, 283–289; torn in pieces, traditions of, 378; trace of the custom of slaying them annually, 440 |
| Kingship, evolution of the sacred, 105; descent of the, in the female line, 152, 154, 155; burdens and restrictions attaching to the early, 168, 175; tenure of the, 279–281 |
| Kingsley, Miss, on soul-traps, 188 |
| Kinship of men with crocodiles, 519 |
| Kiowa Indians, 253 |
| Kirghiz, the, 156, 249, 602 |
| Kirn, last corn cut, 406, 407 |
| Kiwai, natives of, 379 |
| Klamath Indians of Oregon, 255 |
| Knife as charm against spirits, 226 not to be left edge upwards, 227 |
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