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

1. Diana and Virbius

2. Artemis and Hippolytus

3. Recapitulation

1. The Principles of Magic

2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic

3. Contagious Magic

4. The Magician’s Progress

1. The Public Magician

2. The Magical Control of Rain

3. The Magical Control of the Sun

4. The Magical Control of the Wind

1. Tree-spirits

2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits

1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility

2. The Marriage of the Gods

1. Numa and Egeria

2. The King as Jupiter

1. Royal and Priestly Taboos

2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power

1. The Soul as a Mannikin

2. Absence and Recall of the Soul

3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection

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

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

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

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

1. The Mortality of the Gods

2. Kings killed when their Strength fails

3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term

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

1. The Popular Rites

2. The Official Rites

1. Osiris a Corn-god

2. Osiris a Tree-spirit

3. Osiris a God of Fertility

4. Osiris a God of the Dead

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

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

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

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

1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits

2. Eating the God among the Aztecs

3. Many Manii at Aricia

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

1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament

2. Processions with Sacred Animals

1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects

2. The Transference to Animals

3. The Transference to Men

4. The Transference of Evil in Europe

1. The Omnipresence of Demons

2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils

3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils

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

1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome

2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece

3. The Roman Saturnalia

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

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

1. On the Fire-festivals in general

2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals

3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals

1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires

2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires

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