Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Saxony, May or Whitsuntide trees in, 123; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 300; “carrying out Death” in, 309; Oats bride and bridegroom in, 409; fires to burn the witches in, 622
Scandinavia, female descent of the kingship in, 155
Scotland, magical images in, 56; witches raise wind in, 80; iron as a safeguard against fairies in, 226; witch burnt in, 243; harvest customs in, 341, 403, 406–408, 452; names given to last corn cut in, 403, 409, 480; saying as to the wren in, 536; witchcraft in, 542; worship of Grannus in, 611; Beltane fires in, 617–620; few traces of Midsummer fires in, 631; Hallowe’en fires in, 635; need-fire in, 639–641. See also Highlands
Sexes, of plants, recognised by some savages and by the ancients, 114; influence of the, on vegetation, 135–139; danger apprehended from the relation of the, 700
Sexual intercourse practised to make the crops and fruit grow, 135–136
Shadows, of people drawn out by ghosts, 190; animals injured through their, 190; of certain persons dangerous, 190, 207; of people built into foundations of edifices, 191
Siam, kings of, 99, 224, 257, 593; objection to the king’s image on coins in, 193; mode of executing royal criminals in, 228; belief that a guardian spirit dwells in the head in, 230; ceremony at cutting a child’s hair in, 235; temporary kings in, 284, 289; annual expulsion of demons in, 559; human scapegoat in, 570
Siamese monks, 112; story of the external soul, 669
Sicily, attempts to compel the saints to give rain in, 74, 75; gardens of Adonis in, 344; Good Friday ceremonies in, 345; Midsummer fires in, 631
Sickness, homoeopathic magic for the cure of, 15; explained by the absence of the soul, 183; ascribed to possession by demons and cured by exorcism, 196, 547; cured or prevented by effigies, 492; transferred to things, 539, or people, 540, 544, or animals, 540, 544; bonfires a protection against, 610
