Aftermath: A Supplement to The Golden BoughThe Scottish social anthropologist Sir James Frazer (1854-1941) first published The Golden Bough in 1890. A seminal two-volume work (reissued in the Cambridge Library Collection), it revolutionised the study of ancient religion through comparative analysis of mythology, rituals and superstitions around the world. Following the completion in 1915 of the revised twelve-volume third edition (also available in this series), Frazer found that he had more to say and further evidence to present. Published in 1936, Aftermath was conceived as a supplement to The Golden Bough, offering his additional findings on such topics as magic, royal and priestly taboos, sacrifice, reincarnation, and all manner of supernatural beliefs spanning cultures, continents and millennia. Sealing Frazer's profound contribution to the study of religion and folklore, this work remains an important text for scholars of anthropology and the history of ideas. |
Contents
MAGIC Pp 167 | 1 |
Contagious magic is founded on the belief that things once conjoined | 48 |
THE MAGICAL CONTROL | 68 |
An important function of magic is to control the weather and weather | 97 |
MAGICIANS AS KINGS Pp IOIII3 | 108 |
INCARNATE HUMAN Gons Pp 114123 | 114 |
DEPARTMENTAL KINGS | 124 |
REL1cs 0F TREEWORSHIP | 150 |
VOLCANIC RELIGION Pp 347349 | 347 |
THE GARDENS OF ADONIs Pp 3 50352 | 350 |
ON HEADHUNTING Pp 356357 | 356 |
MOTHERKIN AND MOTHER | 365 |
MARRIAGE OF BROTHERS | 366 |
MEN DRESSED As WOMEN P | 373 |
WOMENS PART IN PRIMI | 379 |
PERS0NIFIcATION OF | 385 |
THE SACRED MARRIAGE Pp 157165 | 157 |
THE KINGS FIRE Pp 166168 | 166 |
FATHER JOVE AND MOTHER | 174 |
THE ORIGIN OF PER | 177 |
ST GEORGE AND | 186 |
DIANUS AND DIANA Pp 192193 | 192 |
THE PERILS OF THE SOUL Pp 202226 | 194 |
TABOOED ACTS Pp 227228 | 227 |
TABOOED THINGS Pp 257270 | 257 |
TABOOED WORDS Pp 271289 | 271 |
THE KILLING OF | 290 |
TIIE FAIRY WIFE Pp 318323 | 318 |
TEMP0RARY KINGS PP 324330 | 324 |
SACRIFICE OF THE KINGS | 331 |
KILLING THE TREE | 334 |
CONSECRATION BY AN01NT | 340 |
HUMAN SACRIFICES FOR | 391 |
A PRIMITIVE FORM | 398 |
THE SACRIFICE OF FIRST | 402 |
HOMOEOPATHIC MAGIC | 408 |
THE TRANSMIGRATION | 417 |
THE OMNIPRESENCE | 425 |
THE PUBLIC EXPULSION | 427 |
PUBLIC SCAPEGOATS Pp 433439 | 433 |
THE SATURNALIA | 440 |
NOT To SEE THE SUN P | 447 |
THE FIRE FESTIVALS | 451 |
THE FIREWALK Pp 457458 | 457 |
THE EXTERNAL SOUL | 463 |
THE RITUAL OF DEATH | 478 |
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Adriani Africa animals Baganda Bakongo Bantu Banyankole believed Berbers Birhors blood body Brahuis British New Guinea buried called carried Central Celebes ceremony chief child Chota Nagpur clan crocodile crops custom dance dead death Denys Bray divine earth Elsewhere enemy evil fall fields figure find fire first fish fishing flesh fowl ghost girl Golden Bough hair hunter husband Ibibio India influence Islands killed king king’s Kiwai Kruijt Lake Victoria Landtman leaves London magic magician man’s medicine-man mother natives Neuhauss night Northern Rhodesia observed offered office Oraons P. A. Talbot patient person plant priest primitive rain rain-maker rice Roscoe round royal S. C. Roy sacred grove sacrifice sick Solomon Islands sorcerer soul Southern Nigeria spirit stick stone supposed sympathetic magic taboo Tauxier throw Toradyas of Central tree tribe Uganda village wife woman women