Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
thrown at, 649; brought down from the clouds by shots and smoke, 649–650; thought to keep their strength in their hair, 680–681; tortured in India, 681; animal familiars of, 684
Wizards, 43; Finnish, 81; capture human souls, 187, 188; thought to keep their strength in their hair, 680–681; animal familiars of, 683, 684
Wolf, track of, in contagious magic, 44; corn-spirit as, 448; last sheaf at harvest called, 449, 450; beast-god of Lycopolis in Egypt, 500; ceremonies at killing a, 520, 521; the Green, 628, 652, 664
Wolf society among the Nootka Indians, rite of initiation into, 699
Women, taboos observed by, 20, 25, 26; dances of, 26–28, 64; employed to sow fields on the principle of homoeopathic magic, 28; plough as a rain-charm, 70; worshipped by ancient Germans, 97; married to gods, 142–145; tabooed at menstruation and childbirth, 207–210, 603; not allowed to mention husbands’ names, 249; influence of corn-spirit on, 410; thought to have no soul, 497; ceremonies performed by, to rid fields of vermin, 531; put to death in the character of goddesses in Mexico, 589; impregnated by the sun, 603; dread of menstruous, 603
——, barren, charms to procure offspring, 14; sterilising influence ascribed to, 29, 137; thought to conceive through eating nuts of a palm-tree, 119; fertilised by trees, 119, 120; thought to blight the fruits of the earth, 137; fertilised by being struck with a certain stick, 581
——, pregnant, forbidden to spin or twist ropes, 21; not to loiter in the doorways where there are, 22; employed to fertilise crops and fruit-trees, 28
Würtemberg, bushes set up on Palm Sunday in, 125; the thresher of the last corn at Tettnang in, 456; effigy of goat at Ellwangen in, 456; leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, 653
Zeus, rain made by, 71; the priest of, makes rain by an oak branch, 77; mimicked by King Salmoneus, 77; marriage with Demeter at Eleusis, 142; and Hera, 143, 159; and Dione, 151, 165; as god of the oak, the rain, and the thunder, 159; his oracular oak at Dodona, 159; prayed to for rain, 159; Greek kings called, 159; surnamed Thunderbolt, 159; his resemblance to Donar, Thor, Perun, and Perkunas, 160–161; the grave of, 265; his oracular cave on Mount Ida, 280; his intrigue with Persephone, 388; said to have transferred the sceptre to young Dionysus, 388; father of Dionysus by Demeter, 389; his appearance to Hercules in the shape of a ram, 500; and Danae, 602
Zeus, the Descender, places struck by lightning consecrated to, 159; Heavenly, at Sparta, 9; Lacedaemon, at Sparta, 9; Laphystian, 290–292; Lightning, sacrificial hearth of, 159; Polieus in Cos, 466
