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The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

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Author
Frazer, James George, 1854-1941
Title
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
Credits
This etext was produced by David Reed
Language
English
LoC Class
BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
Subject
Mythology
Category
Text
eBook-No.
3623
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3623
Release Date
January 1, 2003
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.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
  2. 2.I. The King of the Wood — 1. Diana and Virbius — 2. Artemis and Hippolytus — 3. Recapitulation
  3. 3.II. Priestly Kings
  4. 4.III. Sympathetic Magic — 1. The Principles of Magic — 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic — 3. Contagious Magic — 4. The Magician’s Progress
  5. 5.IV. Magic and Religion
  6. 6.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
  7. 7.VI. Magicians as Kings
  8. 8.VII. Incarnate Human Gods
  9. 9.VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
  10. 10.IX. The Worship of Trees — 1. Tree-spirits — 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
  11. 11.X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
  12. 12.XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
  13. 13.XII. The Sacred Marriage — 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility — 2. The Marriage of the Gods
  14. 14.XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba — 1. Numa and Egeria — 2. The King as Jupiter
  15. 15.XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
  16. 16.XV. The Worship of the Oak
  17. 17.XVI. Dianus and Diana
  18. 18.XVII. The Burden of Royalty — 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos — 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power
  19. 19.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
  20. 20.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
  21. 21.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
  22. 22.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
  23. 23.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
  24. 24.XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
  25. 25.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
  26. 26.XXV. Temporary Kings
  27. 27.XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
  28. 28.XXVII. Succession to the Soul
  29. 29.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
  30. 30.XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
  31. 31.XXX. Adonis in Syria
  32. 32.XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
  33. 33.XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
  34. 34.XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
  35. 35.XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
  36. 36.XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
  37. 37.XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
  38. 38.XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
  39. 39.XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
  40. 40.XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris — 1. The Popular Rites — 2. The Official Rites
  41. 41.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
  42. 42.XLI. Isis
  43. 43.XLII. Osiris and the Sun
  44. 44.XLIII. Dionysus
  45. 45.XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
  46. 46.XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
  47. 47.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
  48. 48.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
  49. 49.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
  50. 50.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
  51. 51.L. Eating the God — 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits — 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs — 3. Many Manii at Aricia
  52. 52.LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
  53. 53.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
  54. 54.LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
  55. 55.LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament — 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament — 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
  56. 56.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
  57. 57.LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils — 1. The Omnipresence of Demons — 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils — 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils
  58. 58.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
  59. 59.LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity — 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome — 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece — 3. The Roman Saturnalia
  60. 60.LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
  61. 61.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
  62. 62.LXI. The Myth of Balder
  63. 63.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
  64. 64.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
  65. 65.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
  66. 66.LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
  67. 67.LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
  68. 68.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
  69. 69.LXVIII. The Golden Bough
  70. 70.LXIX. Farewell to Nemi

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