The golden bough: a study in magic and religion/ James George Frazer
Material type: TextPublication details: New York: Konecky and Konecky, 1922Description: 689 p. 21 cmISBN: 9781568527574Subject(s): Mythology | Superstition | Magic | ReligionDDC classification: 200Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Books | Central Library, Sikkim University General Book Section | 200 FRA/G (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | P10691 |
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The king of the wood --
Priestly kings --
Sympathetic magic --
Magic and religion --
The magical control of the weather --
Magicians as kings --
Incarnate human gods --
Departmental kings of nature --
The worship of trees --
Relics of tree-worship in modern Europe --
The influence of the sexes on vegetation --
The sacred marriage --
The kings of Rome and Alba --
The succession to the kingdom in ancient Latium --
The worship of the oak --
Dianus and Diana --
The burden of royalty --
The perils of the soul --
Tabooed acts --
Tabooed persons --
Tabooed things --
Tabooed words --
Our debt to the savage --
The killing of the divine king --
Temporary kings --
Sacrifice of the king's son --
Succession to the soul --
The killing of the tree-spirit --
The myth of Adonis --
Adonis in Syria --
Adonis in Cyprus --
The ritual of Adonis --
The gardens of Adonis --
The myth and ritual of Attis --
Attis as a god of vegetation --
Human representatives of Attis --
Oriental religions in the West --
The myth of Osiris --
The ritual of Osiris --
The nature of Osiris --
Isis --
Osiris and the sun --
Dionysus --
Demeter and Persephone --
The corn-mother and the corn-maiden in northern Europe --
The corn-mother in many lands --
Lityerses --
The corn-spirit as an animal --
Ancient deities of vegetation as animals --
Eating the god --
Homeopathic magic of a flesh diet --
Killing the divine animal --
The propitiation of wild animals by hunters --
Types of animal sacrament --
The transference of evil --
The public expulsion of evils --
Public scapegoats --
Human scapegoats in classical antiquity --
Killing the god in Mexico --
Between heaven and earth --
The myth of Balder --
The fire-festivals of Europe --
The interpretation of the fire-festivals --
The burning of human beings in the fires --
Balder and the mistletoe --
The eternal soul in folk-tales --
The eternal soul in folk-custom --
The Golden Bough --
Farewell to Nemi.
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