The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

Sir James George Frazer

Macmillan, 1925 - 752 pages

Contents

• CHAP PAGE: 1
• PRIESTLY KINGS: 9
• MAGIC AND RELIGION: 48
• MAGICIANS AS KINGS: 83
• INCARNATE HUMAN GODS: 91
• DEPARTMENTAL KINGS OF NATURE: 106
• RELICS OF TREEWORSHIP IN MODERN EUROPE: 120
• THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES ON VEGETATION: 135
• THE KINGS OF ROME AND ALBA: 146
• CHAP PAGE XIV THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM IN ANCIENT LATIUM: 152
• THE WORSHIP OF THE OAK: 159
• DIANUS AND DIANA: 161
• THE BURDEN OF ROYALTY: 168
• 2 Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power: 175
• THE PERILS OF THE SOUL: 178
• 2 Absence and Recall of the Soul: 180
• The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection: 189
• TABOOED ACTS: 194
• 2 Taboos on Eating and Drinking: 198
• Taboos on showing the Face: 199
• Taboos on quitting the House: 200
• TABOOED PERSONS: 202
• Mourners tabooed: 205
• 3 Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth: 207
• 4 Warriors tabooed: 210
• Manslayers tabooed: 212
• 6 Hunters and Fishers tabooed: 216
• ΧΧΙ TABOOED THINGS: 223
• 2 Iron tabooed: 224
• 3 Sharp Weapons tabooed: 226
• Blood tabooed: 227
• 5 The Head tabooed: 230
• Hair tabooed: 231
• Ceremonies at Haircutting: 233
• Spittle tabooed: 237
• Foods tabooed: 238
• ΧΧΙΙ TABOOED WORDS: 244
• 2 Names of Relations tabooed: 249
• 3 Names of the Dead tabooed: 251
• Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed: 257
• Names of Gods tabooed: 260
• CHAP PAGE XXIII OUR DEBT TO THE SAVAGE: 262
• THE KILLING OF THE DIVINE KING: 264
• 2 Kings killed when their Strength fails: 265
• 3 Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term: 274
• TEMPORARY KINGS: 283
• SACRIFICE OF THE KINGS SON: 289
• SUCCESSION TO THE SOUL: 293
• THE KILLING OF THE TREESPIRIT: 296
• 2 Burying the Carnival: 301
• 3 Carrying out Death: 307
• 4 Bringing in Summer: 311
• 5 Battle of Summer and Winter: 316
• 6 Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko: 317
• 7 Death and Revival of Vegetation: 318
• Analogous Rites in India: 319
• 9 The Magic Spring: 320
• THE MYTH OF ADONIS: 324
• ADONIS IN SYRIA: 327
• ADONIS IN CYPRUS: 329
• THE RITUAL OF ADONIS: 335
• THE GARDENS OF ADONIS: 341
• THE MYTH AND RITUAL OF ATTIS: 347
• ATTIS AS A GOD OF VEGETATION: 352
• HUMAN REPRESENTATIVES OF ATTIS: 353
• ORIENTAL RELIGIONS IN THE WEST: 356
• THE MYTH OF OSIRIS: 362
• THE RITUAL OF OSIRIS: 368
• 2 The Official Rites: 373
• THE NATURE OF OSIRIS: 377
• 2 Osiris a Treespirit: 380
• 3 Osiris a God of Fertility: 381
• ISIS: 382
• CHAP PAGE XLII OSIRIS AND THE SUN: 384
• DIONYSUS: 385
• DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE: 393
• THE CORNMOTHER AND THE CORNMAIDEN IN NORTHERN EUROPE: 399
• THE CORNMOTHER IN MANY LANDS: 412
• 2 The Ricemother in the East Indies: 413
• The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings: 419
• 4 The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter: 420
• LITYERSES: 424
• 2 Killing the Cornspirit: 425
• Human Sacrifices for the Crops: 431
• The Cornspirit slain in his Human Representatives: 438
• THE CORNSPIRIT AS AN ANIMAL: 447
• The Cornspirit as a Wolf or a Dog: 448
• The Cornspirit as a Cock: 450
• The Cornspirit as a Hare: 452
• The Cornspirit as a Cat: 453
• 6 The Cornspirit as a Goat: 454
• 7 The Cornspirit as a Bull Cow or Ox: 457
• The Cornspirit as a Horse or Mare: 459
• 9 The Cornspirit as a Pig Boar or Sow: 460
• On the Animal Embodiments of the Cornspirit: 462
• ANCIENT DEITIES OF VEGETATION AS ANIMALS: 464
• Demeter the Pig and the Horse: 469
• Attis Adonis and the Pig: 471
• Osiris the Pig and the Bull: 472
• Virbius and the Horse: 476
• EATING THE GOD: 479
• 2 Eating the God among the Aztecs: 488
• Many Manii at Aricia: 491
• HOMOEOPATHIC MAGIC OF A FLESH DIET: 494
• 599: 505
• 412: 532
• 419: 538
• THE PUBLIC EXPULSION OF EVILS: 546
• HUMAN SCAPEGOATS IN CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY: 577
• 460: 583
• BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH: 592
• 471: 603
• THE FIRE FESTIVALS OF EUROPE: 609
• 79: 617
• 91: 631
• THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FIREFESTIVALS: 641
• The Purificatory Theory of the Firefestivals: 647
• BALDER AND THE MISTLETOE: 658
• THE EXTERNAL SOUL IN FOLKTALES: 667
• THE EXTERNAL SOUL IN FOLKCUSTOM: 679
• 4: 691

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
• Author: Sir James George Frazer
• Edition: abridged
• Publisher: Macmillan, 1925
• Original from: the University of Virginia
• Digitized: Jun 4, 2008
• Length: 752 pages