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The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion
by
Sir James George Frazer
- CONTENTS
  - Preface
  - Subject Index
  - Chapter 1. The King of the Wood
  - Chapter 2. Priestly Kings
  - Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic
  - Chapter 4. Magic and Religion
  - Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather
  - Chapter 6. Magicians as Kings
  - Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods
  - Chapter 8. Departmental Kings of Nature
  - Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees
  - Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
  - Chapter 11. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
  - Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage
  - Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba
  - Chapter 14. Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
  - Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak
  - Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana
  - Chapter 17. The Burden of Royalty
  - Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul
  - Chapter 19. Tabooed Acts
  - Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons
  - Chapter 21. Tabooed Things
  - Chapter 22. Tabooed Words
  - Chapter 23. Our Debt to the Savage
  - Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King
  - Chapter 25. Temporary Kings
  - Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King's Son
  - Chapter 27. Succession to the Soul
  - Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
  - Chapter 29. The Myth of Adonis
  - Chapter 30. Adonis in Syria
  - Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus
  - Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis
  - Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis
  - Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
  - Chapter 35. Attis as a God of Vegetation
  - Chapter 36. Human Representatives of Attis
  - Chapter 37. Oriental Religions in the West
  - Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris
  - Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris
  - Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris
  - Chapter 41. Isis
  - Chapter 42. Osiris and the Sun
  - Chapter 43. Dionysus
  - Chapter 44. Demeter and Persephone
  - Chapter 45. Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in N. Europe
  - Chapter 46. Corn-Mother in Many Lands
  - Chapter 47. Lityerses
  - Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
  - Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
  - Chapter 50. Eating the God
  - Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
  - Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal
  - Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
  - Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament
  - Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil
  - Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils
  - Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats
  - Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
  - Chapter 59. Killing the God in Mexico
  - Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth
  - Chapter 61. The Myth of Balder
  - Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
  - Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
  - Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
  - Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe
  - Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
  - Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
  - Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
  - Chapter 69. Farewell to Nemi
- Preface
- I. The King of the Wood
  - 1. Diana and Virbius
  - 2. Artemis and Hippolytus
  - 3. Recapitulation
- II. Priestly Kings
- III. Sympathetic Magic
  - 1. The Principles of Magic
  - 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
  - 3. Contagious Magic
  - 4. The Magician’s Progress
- IV. Magic and Religion
- V. The Magical Control of the Weather
  - 1. The Public Magician
  - 2. The Magical Control of Rain
  - 3. The Magical Control of the Sun
  - 4. The Magical Control of the Wind
- VI. Magicians as Kings
- VII. Incarnate Human Gods
- VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
- IX. The Worship of Trees
  - 1. Tree-spirits
  - 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
- X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
- XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
- XII. The Sacred Marriage
  - 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility
  - 2. The Marriage of the Gods
- XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
  - 1. Numa and Egeria
  - 2. The King as Jupiter
- XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
- XV. The Worship of the Oak
- XVI. Dianus and Diana
- XVII. The Burden of Royalty
  - 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos
  - 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power
- XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
  - 1. The Soul as a Mannikin
  - 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul
  - 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection
- XIX. Tabooed Acts
  - 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers
  - 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking
  - 3. Taboos on Showing the Face
  - 4. Taboos on Quitting the House
  - 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over
- XX. Tabooed Persons
  - 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed
  - 2. Mourners tabooed
  - 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth
  - 4. Warriors tabooed
  - 5. Manslayers tabooed
  - 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed
- XXI. Tabooed Things
  - 1. The Meaning of Taboo
  - 2. Iron tabooed
  - 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed
  - 4. Blood tabooed
  - 5. The Head tabooed
  - 6. Hair tabooed
  - 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting
  - 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails
  - 9. Spittle tabooed
  - 10. Foods tabooed
  - 11. Knots and Rings tabooed
- XXII. Tabooed Words
  - 1. Personal Names tabooed
  - 2. Names of Relations tabooed
  - 3. Names of the Dead tabooed
  - 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed
  - 5. Names of Gods tabooed
- XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
- XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
  - 1. The Mortality of the Gods
  - 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails
  - 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
- XXV. Temporary Kings
- XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
- XXVII. Succession to the Soul
- XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
  - 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers
  - 2. Burying the Carnival
  - 3. Carrying out Death
  - 4. Bringing in Summer
  - 5. Battle of Summer and Winter
  - 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko
  - 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation
  - 8. Analogous Rites in India
  - 9. The Magic Spring
- XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
- XXX. Adonis in Syria
- XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
- XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
- XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
- XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
- XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
- XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
- XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
- XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
- XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
  - 1. The Popular Rites
  - 2. The Official Rites
- XL. The Nature of Osiris
  - 1. Osiris a Corn-god
  - 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit
  - 3. Osiris a God of Fertility
  - 4. Osiris a God of the Dead
- XLI. Isis
- XLII. Osiris and the Sun
- XLIII. Dionysus
- XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
- XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
- XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
  - 1. The Corn-mother in America
  - 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies
  - 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings
  - 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter
- XLVII. Lityerses
  - 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers
  - 2. Killing the Corn-spirit
  - 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops
  - 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives
- XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
  - 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
  - 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog
  - 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock
  - 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare
  - 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat
  - 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat
  - 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox
  - 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare
  - 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow)
  - 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
- XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
  - 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull
  - 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse
  - 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig
  - 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull
  - 5. Virbius and the Horse
- L. Eating the God
  - 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits
  - 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs
  - 3. Many Manii at Aricia
- LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
- LII. Killing the Divine Animal
  - 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard
  - 2. Killing the Sacred Ram
  - 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent
  - 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles
  - 5. Killing the Sacred Bear
- LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
- LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
  - 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament
  - 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
- LV. The Transference of Evil
  - 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects
  - 2. The Transference to Animals
  - 3. The Transference to Men
  - 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe
- LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
  - 1. The Omnipresence of Demons
  - 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils
  - 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils
- LVII. Public Scapegoats
  - 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils
  - 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
  - 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
  - 4. On Scapegoats in General
- LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
  - 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome
  - 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece
  - 3. The Roman Saturnalia
- LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
- LX. Between Heaven and Earth
  - 1. Not to touch the Earth
  - 2. Not to see the Sun
  - 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
  - 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
- LXI. The Myth of Balder
- LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
  - 1. The Fire-festivals in general
  - 2. The Lenten Fires
  - 3. The Easter Fires
  - 4. The Beltane Fires
  - 5. The Midsummer Fires
  - 6. The Hallowe’en Fires
  - 7. The Midwinter Fires
  - 8. The Need-fire
- LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
  - 1. On the Fire-festivals in general
  - 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals
  - 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals
- LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
  - 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires
  - 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires
- LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
- LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
  - 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things
  - 2. The External Soul in Plants
  - 3. The External Soul in Animals
  - 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection
- LXVIII. The Golden Bough
- LXIX. Farewell to Nemi