Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Corn-spirit, Adonis as a, 338; represented by human victims, 339; represented as a dead old man, 372; killing the, 425–431; slain in his human representatives, 438–447; how representative was chosen, 439; as an animal, 447–464.
Cow, ceremony of rebirth from a golden, 197; sacred to Isis, 373; corn-spirit as, 457; as scapegoat, 565, 571; witches steal milk from, 648; mistletoe given to, 663
Crops, charms to promote the growth of the, 28, 288, 610, 613, 614, 624, 645; intercourse of the sexes to promote the growth of the, 136; human victims sacrificed for the, 355, 431; superstitious devices to get rid of vermin in the, 530; supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, 604, 606
Dances, of women while men are away fighting, 26, 27; to make hemp grow, 28; for rain, 64; round sacred trees, 118; round the May-pole, 122, 124, 126; round bonfires, 122, 610–612, 614, 620, 621, 625, 628–630; to fertilise gardens, 137; of king, 200; of successful head-hunters, 212; to propitiate souls of slain foes, 212; of victory, 213; of harvesters, 401, 427, 460; at festival of first-fruits, 486; at burial of the wren, 537; masked, 542
Dead, the, homoeopathic magic of, 30; spirits of, 47; making rain by means of, 71; trees animated by the souls of, 115; sacrifices to, 175; taboos on persons who have handled, 205; names of, tabooed, 251–256; appear to the living in dreams, 256; festival of, 373, 633; worship of, 414; ghosts of, 551
Death, pretence of, 16; “carrying out,” 125, 302, 307–316, 577, 613, 614; at ebb tide, 167, 168; mourners forbidden to sleep in a house after a, 182; custom of covering up mirrors after a, 192; from imagination, 204; ritual of, and resurrection, 691–711
Demeter, married to Zeus at Eleusis, 142; and Persephone, 393–398, 420; etymology of her name, 399; in relation to the pig, 469; horse-headed, of Phigalia, 471; Black, 471
Demons, of trees, 116; abduction of souls by, 186; and ghosts averse to iron, 226; deceived by effigies, 492; of disease exorcised, 542; omnipresence of, 546; of cholera, 549, 551; men disguised as, 562; conjured into images, 568
