| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
Subject Index |
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| North-American Indians, 210, 228, 494, 496, 524, 529, 533, 594, 605, 678, 698 |
| Norway, 133; harvest customs in, 428, 429, 453, 454; Midsummer fires in, 625; superstitions about a parasitic rowan in, 702 |
| Nubas of Jebel-Nuba, 203 |
| Nufoors of Dutch New Guinea, 246, 250 |
| Numa, 4, 147, 149, 151, 158, 164 |
| Nut, Egyptian sky-goddess, mother of Osiris, 362, 363 |
| Nuts passed across Midsummer fires, 629 |
| Nyakang, first of the Shilluk kings, 267 |
| Nyanza, Lake, incarnate human god of, 98 |
| Nyassa, Lake, 596 |
| Oak, the worship of the, 159–161, 659, 710; effigy of Death buried under an, 309; the principal sacred tree of the Aryans, 665; human representatives of the oak perhaps originally burnt at the fire-festivals, 665, 666; life of, in mistletoe, 701; supposed to bloom on Midsummer Eve, 706; struck by lightning oftener than any other tree, 708 |
| Oak branch, in rain-charm, 77; crown, sacred to Jupiter and Juno, 148, 151; god, 151, 161; leaves, 148, 661; mistletoe, an “all-healer,” 660–662; nymphs, at Rome, 147; -spirit, 701, 703; -trees, sacrifices to, 161, and ague transferred to, 546 |
| —— wood, perpetual fire of, 161, 704; used for the Yule log, 637, 638, 666; used to kindle the Beltane fires, the need-fire, and the Midsummer fires, 618, 620, 639, 665 |
| Oaths, on stones, 33; taken by Mexican kings, 87, 104 |
| Oats Bride, 408; -cow, 457, 458; -goat, 447, 454, 457; -mother, 400; -sow, 460; -stallion, 459; -wolf, 448, 449 |
| O’Brien, Murrogh, 229 |
| Octennial cycle based on an attempt to harmonise lunar and solar time, 279–280 |
| October horse, sacrifice of the, 478 |
| Odin, sacrifice of king’s sons to, 278–279, 290; legend of the deposition of, 279; human sacrifices to, 354 |
| O’Donovan, E., 242 |
| Offspring, charms to procure, 14, 15 |
| Ogres in stories of the external soul, 669, 670 |
| Oil, in magic, 23, 25, 26, 76; of St. John, 661, 662, 706; human victim anointed with, 435 |
| Ointment, magical, 41 |
| Ojebway Indians, 13, 45, 78, 113, 211, 245 |
| Olala, secret society of Niska Indians, 699 |
| Old Calabar, 119, 493; expulsion of devils and ghosts in, 567 |
| Old Man, Arab custom of burying the, 378; the last sheaf called the, 402, 426, 427, 467 |
| —— men, savage communities ruled by, 47 |
| —— Rye woman, 428, 465 |
| —— Wife, name given to last corn cut, 403 |
| —— Witch, burning the, 429 |
| —— Woman, of the Corn, 372; last ears of corn called, 400; last sheaf called, 402; killing the, 428; burning the, 614 |
| Old Woman who Never Dies, North American Indian personification of maize, 419 |
| Oldenberg, Professor, 67 |
| Oldfield, A., 251 |
| Oleae, the, at Orchomenus, 291, 292 |
| Olive wood, sacred images carved of, 7 |
| Olofaet, a fire-god, in Namoluk, 707 |
| Oloh Ngadju of Borneo, the, 492 |
| Olympia, races for the kingdom at, 156 |
| Omaha Indians, 63, 216, 473, 474 |
| Omens, magic to annul evil, 37; from observation of the sky, 279; from boiling milk, 482; from the smoke and flames of bonfires, 612, 615, 616, 621, 624, 645; from cakes rolled down hill, 620; of marriage, 626, 646 |
| Omonga, a rice-spirit, 416 |
| On or Aun, king of Sweden, 278, 290 |
| Ongtong Java Islands, ceremony at reception of strangers in the, 196 |
| Onitsha, on the Niger, king of, 200; ceremony at eating the new yams at, 483; human scapegoats at, 569 |
| Oracles, given by the king as representative of the god, 94; by inspired priests, 94 |
| Oracular spring at Dodona, 147 |
| Oraons of Bengal, 144, 342, 434 |
| Orchomenus in Boeotia, human sacrifices at, 291 |
| Ordeal of battle, 158; by poison, 294 |
| Orestes at Nemi, 2, 6, 216 |
| Oriental religions in the West, 356–362 |
| Orinoco, Indians of the, 27, 28, 71, 73, 78, 524 |
| Orion, the constellation, 355 |
| Orissa, Queen Victoria worshipped as a deity in, 100 |
| Orkney Islands, transference of sickness by means of water in the, 544 |
| Orotchis, bear-festivals of the, 514 |
| Orpheus, the legend of his death, 379 |
| Osiris, 52, 325, 443; the myth of, 362–368; the ritual of, 368–377; the nature of, 377–382; and the sun, 384; the cults of Adonis, Attis, Dionysus, and, 424; key to mysteries of, 444; and the pig, 472, 475; in relation to sacred bulls, 476 |
| Osiris, Adonis, Attis, their mythical similarity, 325 |
| “Osiris of the mysteries,” 376 |
| Osiris-Sep, title of Osiris, 375 |
| Ostiaks, the, 521 |
| Ostrich, ghost of, deceived, 526 |
| Ot Danoms of Borneo, 195, 597 |
| Ottawa Indians, 214, 522, 527 |
| Ounce, ceremony at killing an, 523 |
| “Our Mother among the Water,” Mexican goddess, 588 |
| Ovambo of South-west Africa, 224 |
| Owl, eyes of, eaten to make eater see in the dark, 496; life of a person bound up with that of an, 684; sex totem of women, 688 |
| Ox, in magic, 22, 31, 72; corn-spirit as, 457, 466–468; slaughtered at threshing, 459; sacrificed at the Bouphonia, 466; effigy of, broken as a spring ceremony in China, 468 |
| Oyo, king of, among the Yorubas, 274 |
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