The golden bough: a study in magic and religion/
James George Frazer
- New York: Konecky and Konecky, 1922.
- 689 p. 21 cm.
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.