Frazer, James George, Sir . The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
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Header
Front Matter
Chapter
Chapter 1. The King of the Wood.
Section 1.1
Section 1. Diana and Virbius.
Section 1.2
Section 2. Artemis and Hippolytus.
Section 1.3
Section 3. Recapitulation.
Chapter 2
Chapter 2. Priestly Kings.
Chapter 3
Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic.
Section 3.1
Section 1. The Principles of Magic.
Section 3.2
Section 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic.
Section 3.3
Section 3. Contagious Magic.
Section 3.4
Section 4. The Magician's Progress.
Chapter 4
Chapter 4. Magic and Religion.
Chapter 5
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather.
Section 5.1
Section 1. The Public Magician.
Section 5.2
Section 2. The Magical Control of Rain.
Section 5.3
Section 3. The Magical Control of the Sun.
Section 5.4
Section 4. The Magical Control of the Wind.
Chapter 6
Chapter 6. Magicians as Kings.
Chapter 7
Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods.
Chapter 8
Chapter 8. Departmental Kings of Nature.
Chapter 9
Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees.
Section 9.1
Section 1. Tree-spirits.
Section 9.2
Section 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits.
Chapter 10
Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe.
Chapter 11
Chapter 11. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation.
Chapter 12
Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage.
Section 12.1
Section 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility.
Section 12.2
Section 2. The Marriage of the Gods.
Chapter 13
Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba.
Section 13.1
Section 1. Numa and Egeria.
Section 13.2
Section 2. The King as Jupiter.
Chapter 14
Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium.
Chapter 15
Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak.
Chapter 16
Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana.
Chapter 17
Chapter 17. The Burden of Royalty.
Section 17.1
Section 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos.
Section 17.2
Section 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power.
Chapter 18
Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul.
Section 18.1
Section 1. The Soul as a Mannikin.
Section 18.2
Section 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul.
Section 18.3
Section 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection.
Chapter 19
Chapter 19. Tabooed Acts.
Section 19.1
Section 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers.
Section 19.2
Section 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking.
Section 19.3
Section 3. Taboos on Showing the Face.
Section 19.4
Section 4. Taboos on Quitting the House.
Section 19.5
Section 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over.
Chapter 20
Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons.
Section 20.1
Section 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed.
Section 20.2
Section 2. Mourners tabooed.
Section 20.3
Section 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth.
Section 20.4
Section 4. Warriors tabooed.
Section 20.5
Section 5. Manslayers tabooed.
Section 20.6
Section 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed.
Chapter 21
Chapter 21. Tabooed Things.
Section 21.1
Section 1. The Meaning of Taboo.
Section 21.2
Section 2. Iron tabooed.
Section 21.3
Section 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed.
Section 21.4
Section 4. Blood tabooed.
Section 21.5
Section 5. The Head tabooed.
Section 21.6
Section 6. Hair tabooed.
Section 21.7
Section 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting.
Section 21.8
Section 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails.
Section 21.9
Section 9. Spittle tabooed.
Section 21.10
Section 10. Foods tabooed.
Section 21.11
Section 11. Knots and Rings tabooed.
Chapter 22
Chapter 22. Tabooed Words.
Section 22.1
Section 1. Personal Names tabooed.
Section 22.2
Section 2. Names of Relations tabooed.
Section 22.3
Section 3. Names of the Dead tabooed.
Section 22.4
Section 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed.
Section 22.5
Section 5. Names of Gods tabooed.
Chapter 23
Chapter 23. Our Debt to the Savage.
Chapter 24
Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King.
Section 24.1
Section 1. The Mortality of the Gods.
Section 24.2
Section 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails.
Section 24.3
Section 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term.
Chapter 25
Chapter 25. Temporary Kings.
Chapter 26
Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King's Son.
Chapter 27
Chapter 27. Succession to the Soul.
Chapter 28
Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit.
Section 28.1
Section 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers.
Section 28.2
Section 2. Burying the Carnival.
Section 28.3
Section 3. Carrying out Death.
Section 28.4
Section 4. Bringing in Summer.
Section 28.5
Section 5. Battle of Summer and Winter.
Section 28.6
Section 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko.
Section 28.7
Section 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation.
Section 28.8
Section 8. Analogous Rites in India.
Section 28.9
Section 9. The Magic Spring.
Chapter 29
Chapter 29. The Myth of Adonis.
Chapter 30
Chapter 30. Adonis in Syria.
Chapter 31
Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus.
Chapter 32
Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis.
Chapter 33
Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis.
Chapter 34
Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis.
Chapter 35
Chapter 35. Attis as a God of Vegetation.
Chapter 36
Chapter 36. Human Representatives of Attis.
Chapter 37
Chapter 37. Oriental Religions in the West.
Chapter 38
Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris.
Chapter 39
Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris.
Section 39.1
Section 1. The Popular Rites.
Section 39.2
Section 2. The Official Rites.
Chapter 40
Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris.
Section 40.1
Section 1. Osiris a Corn-god.
Section 40.2
Section 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit.
Section 40.3
Section 3. Osiris a God of Fertility.
Section 40.4
Section 4. Osiris a God of the Dead.
Chapter 41
Chapter 41. Isis.
Chapter 42
Chapter 42. Osiris and the Sun.
Chapter 43
Chapter 43. Dionysus.
Chapter 44
Chapter 44. Demeter and Persephone.
Chapter 45
Chapter 45. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe.
Chapter 46
Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands.
Section 46.1
Section 1. The Corn-mother in America.
Section 46.2
Section 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies.
Section 46.3
Section 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings.
Section 46.4
Section 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter.
Chapter 47
Chapter 47. Lityerses.
Section 47.1
Section 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers.
Section 47.2
Section 2. Killing the Corn-spirit.
Section 47.3
Section 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops.
Section 47.4
Section 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives.
Chapter 48
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal.
Section 48.1
Section 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit.
Section 48.2
Section 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog.
Section 48.3
Section 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock.
Section 48.4
Section 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare.
Section 48.5
Section 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat.
Section 48.6
Section 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat.
Section 48.7
Section 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox.
Section 48.8
Section 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare.
Section 48.9
Section 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow).
Section 48.10
Section 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit.
Chapter 49
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.
Section 49.1
Section 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull.
Section 49.2
Section 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse.
Section 49.3
Section 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig.
Section 49.4
Section 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull.
Section 49.5
Section 5. Virbius and the Horse.
Chapter 50
Chapter 50. Eating the God.
Section 50.1
Section 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits.
Section 50.2
Section 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs.
Section 50.3
Section 3. Many Manii at Aricia.
Chapter 51
Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet.
Chapter 52
Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal.
Section 52.1
Section 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard.
Section 52.2
Section 2. Killing the Sacred Ram.
Section 52.3
Section 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent.
Section 52.4
Section 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles.
Section 52.5
Section 5. Killing the Sacred Bear.
Chapter 53
Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters.
Chapter 54
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament.
Section 54.1
Section 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament.
Section 54.2
Section 2. Processions with Sacred Animals.
Chapter 55
Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil.
Section 55.1
Section 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects.
Section 55.2
Section 2. The Transference to Animals.
Section 55.3
Section 3. The Transference to Men.
Section 55.4
Section 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe.
Chapter 56
Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils.
Section 56.1
Section 1. The Omnipresence of Demons.
Section 56.2
Section 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils.
Section 56.3
Section 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils.
Chapter 57
Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats.
Section 57.1
Section 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils.
Section 57.2
Section 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle.
Section 57.3
Section 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle.
Section 57.4
Section 4. On Scapegoats in General.
Chapter 58
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity.
Section 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome.
Section 58.2
Section 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece.
Section 58.3
Section 3. The Roman Saturnalia.
Chapter 59
Chapter 59. Killing the God in Mexico.
Chapter 60
Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth.
Section 60.1
Section 1. Not to touch the Earth.
Section 60.2
Section 2. Not to see the Sun.
Section 60.3
Section 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty.
Section 60.4
Section 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty.
Chapter 61
Chapter 61. The Myth of Balder.
Chapter 62
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe.
Section 62.1
Section 1. The Fire-festivals in general.
Section 62.2
Section 2. The Lenten Fires.
Section 62.3
Section 3. The Easter Fires.
Section 62.4
Section 4. The Beltane Fires.
Section 62.5
Section 5. The Midsummer Fires.
Section 62.6
Section 6. The Hallowe'en Fires.
Section 62.7
Section 7. The Midwinter Fires.
Section 62.8
Section 8. The Need-fire.
Chapter 63
Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals.
Section 63.1
Section 1. On the Fire-festivals in general.
Section 63.2
Section 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals.
Section 63.3
Section 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals.
Chapter 64
Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires.
Section 64.1
Section 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires.
Section 64.2
Section 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires.
Chapter 65
Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe.
Chapter 66
Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales.
Chapter 67
Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom.
Section 67.1
Section 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things.
Section 67.2
Section 2. The External Soul in Plants.
Section 67.3
Section 3. The External Soul in Animals.
Section 67.4
Section 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection.
Chapter 68
Chapter 68. The Golden Bough.
Chapter 69
Chapter 69. Farewell to Nemi.