The Golden BoughLulu.com, 2008 M05 7 - 444 pages A book of antiquity for any studying magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer originally. Editing and foreword by Ashira Goddard. A Tapestry Antiquity Publishing Book. |
Contents
Foreword | 7 |
Priestly Kings | 23 |
The Magicians Progress | 70 |
The Magical Control of the Weather | 89 |
Magicians as Kings | 119 |
Departmental Kings of Nature | 148 |
Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe | 166 |
The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation | 185 |
Names of Relations tabooed | 342 |
Names of the Dead tabooed | 346 |
Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed353 | 353 |
Names of Gods tabooed | 357 |
Our Debt to the Savage | 360 |
The Killing of the Divine King | 363 |
Kings killed when their Strength fails | 365 |
Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term | 377 |
The Kings of Rome and Alba | 200 |
The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium208 | 208 |
The Worship of the Oak | 217 |
The Burden of Royalty | 229 |
The Perils of the Soul | 243 |
Tabooed Acts | 264 |
Tabooed Persons | 276 |
Tabooed Things | 305 |
Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails | 321 |
Spittle tabooed | 326 |
Foods tabooed | 328 |
Knots and Rings tabooed | 329 |
Tabooed Words | 336 |
Temporary Kings | 388 |
Sacrifice of the Kings Son | 395 |
Succession to the Soul | 400 |
The Killing of the TreeSpirit | 404 |
Burying the Carnival | 411 |
Carrying out Death | 419 |
Bringing in Summer | 424 |
Battle of Summer and Winter | 431 |
Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko 433 7 Death and Revival of Vegetation | 435 |
Analogous Rites in India | 437 |
The Magic Spring | 439 |
Common terms and phrases
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