The golden bough: A study in magic and religion/ James George Frazer

The King of tlic Wood
1 • DIANA AND VIRKILS
2 • ARTKMIS AND IIIPPOLYTUS
5 •:apitulation
Priestly Kings
Sympathetic Magic
1 • THK PRINCIPLUS OF MACIC
2 • II0M01;0PATHK; OR IMITATIVIl MACaC
3 • CONTACaOUS MACaC
4 n TUF MAGItaAN's PROCURESS
Magic and Religion
The Magical C-ontrol of the Weather
1 • THE PUBLIC MACaCIAN
2 • THE MAtaCAL CONTItOL OF RAIN
3 • THE MACaCAL CONTROL OF THE SUN
4 • THE MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WIND
Magicians as Kings
Incarnate Human Gods
Departmental Kings of Nature
• The Worship of Trees
1 • TRKI-.-SI'IKITS
2 • BHNIU-ICUNT I'OWKRS OI TR hl.-SiM R ITS
Relics of Tree-Worship in Modern Hurope
The Influence of the Sexes on \'eget;ition
The Sacred Marriage
DIANA AS A (lODDKSS OF FFRTIl.ITY
TUF. MARRIAGF. OF TIIF. CODS
The Kings of Rome and Alba
1 • NUMA AND Fca-RIA
2 • TUF KINC; AS JL IMTFR
• The vSuccession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latiumn The Worship of the ()ak
• Uianus and Diana
• The Burden of Royalty
1 • royal AND FRIFSTI.Y TABOOS
2 DIVORCE OF TIIF SPIRITUAL FROM TIIF TEMPORAL POWER
• 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
Tabooed Acts
I • TABOOS ON INTERCOURSE WITH STRANGERS
3 • TABOOS ON SFIOWING THE FACE
4 • TABOOS ON QUITTINC; THE HOUSE
5 • TABOOS ON LEAVING FOOD OVER Tabooed Persons
1 • CHIEFS AND KINGS TABOOED
2 • MOURNERS TABOOED
3• WOMI-.N TAHOOI I) AT M li N STKl'ATION ANH f :H I KTl I
4 • WAKKIOKS TAHOOI I)
5 • M ANSI.A^'IiUS TAIiOOhl)
6 n Ill NTTKS AM) MSHhRS TAROOKl)
Tabooed Things
TUT. MTANINC; OT TABOO
IKON TABOOTI)
SIIAUn WTAPONS TABOOI-l)
BLOOD TABOOI-.I)
TUT HTAD TABOOTI)
HAIR TABOOTI)
OTRTMONITS AT 11AI R-CUTTING
DISTOSAT OF CUT HAIR AND NAILS
SPITTLT TABOOTI)
ID n FOODS TABOOTI)
I I • KNOTS AND RINGS TABOOTI)
Tabooed Words

PI^RSONAL NAMTS TABOOED
NAMES OF RELATIONS TABOOED
NAMTS OF THE DEAD TABOOED
NAMES OF KINGS AND OTHER SACRED PERSONS TABOOED
NAMES OF GODS TABOOED
Our Debt to the Savage
The Killing of the Divine King
1 • THE MORTALITY OF THE GODS
2 n KINGS KILLED WHEN THEIR STRENGTH FAILS
3 • KINGS KILLED AT THE END OF A FIXED TERM
Temporary Kings
Sacrifice of the King's Son
Succession to the Soul
The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
• THE WHITSUNTIDE MUMMERS

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DI.ATH ANT) RKVIVAI. ()l VITT TATION
ANAI.Ol.ors RITI S IN INDIA
Till. MAITC sprint;
The Myth of Acloni.s
Adonis in Syria
Adonis in (Cyprus
The Ritual of Adonis
The (Jardens of Adonis
The Myth and Ritual of Attis
Attis As a Ciod of Wgetation
Human Representatives of Attis
Oriental Religions in the West
The Myth of Osiris
The Ritual of Osiris
1 • THE POPULAR RITES
2 • THE OFFICIAL RITES
The Nature of Osiris
1 • OSIRIS A CORN-GOD
2 • OSIRIS A TREE-SPIRIT
3 • OSIRIS A GOD OF FERTILITY
4 n OSIRIS A GOD OF THE DEAD
()siris and the Sun
Dionysus
Dcmctcr and Persephone
The Corn-Mother and the (>orn-Maiden in
Northern Europe


Corn-Mother in Many Lands
THE CORN-MOTHER IN AMERICA
THE RICE-MOTHER IN THE EAST INDIES
THE SPIRIT OF THE CORN EMBODIED IN HUMAN BEINGS
THE DOUBLE PERSONIFICATION OF
THE CORN AS MOTHER AND DAUC.HTER
Lityerses
1 • SONGS OF THE CORN REAPERS
2 • KILLING THE CORN-SPIRIT
^ • HUMAN SACRIFICES FOR THE CROPS
4 • THE CORN-SPIRIT SLAIN IN HIS HUMAN REPRESENTATIVE!
The Corn-Spirit As an Animal
ON THE ANIMAL EMBODIMENTS OF THE CORN-SPIRIT
ANIMAL EMBODIMENTS OF THE CORN-SPIRIT
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A WOLF OR A DOG
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A COCK
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A HARE
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A CAT
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A GOAT
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A BULL, COW, OR OX
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A HORSE OR MARE
THE CORN-SPIRIT AS A PIG (bOAR OR SOw)
Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
DIONYSUS, THE GOAT AND THE BULL
DEMETER, THE PIG AND THE HORSE
ATTIS, ADONIS, AND THE PIG
OSIRIS, THE PIG AND THE BULL
VIRBIUS AND THE HORSE
Eating the God
1 • THE SACRAMENT OF FIRST-FRUITS
2 • EATING THE GOD AMONG THE AZTECS
3 • MANY MANII AT ARICIA
Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
Killing the Divine Animal
KILLING THE SACRF:D BUZZARD
KILLING THE SACRED RAM
KILLING THE SACRED SERPENT
KILLING THE SACRED TURTLES
KILLING THE SACRED BEAR
The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters
Types of Animal Sacrament
1 • THE EGYPTIAN AND THE AINO TYPES OF SACRAMENT
2 • PROCESSIONS WITH SACRED ANIMALS
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
The Public Expulsion of Evils
1 • THE OMNIPRESENCE OF DEMONS
2 • THE OCCASIONAL EXPULSION OF EVILS
3 • THE PERIODIC EXPULSION OF EVILS
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
Human Scapegoats in ClassicalAntiquity
1 • THE HUMAN SCAPEGOAT IN ANCIENT ROME
2 • THE HUMAN SCAPEGOAT IN ANCIENT GREECE
3 • THE ROMAN SATURNALIA
Killing the C»ocl in Mexico
Between Heaven and Earth
1 • NOT TO TOUCH THE EARTH
2 • NOT TO SEE THE SUN
3 • THE SECLUSION OF GIRl-S AT PUBERTY
4 • REASONS FOR THE SECLUSION OF GIRI^ AT PUBERTY
The Myth of Balder
The Fire-Festivals of Europe
THE FIRE-FESTIVALS IN GENERAL
THE LENTEN FIRES
THE EASTER FIRES
THE BELTANE FIRES
THE MIDSUMMER FIRES
THE Hallowe'en fires
THE MIDWINTER FIRES
THE NEED-FIRE
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
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
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Balder and the Mistletoe
The External Soul in Folk-Tales
• The External vSoul in Folk-C Aistom
1 • Tin- liXTHRNAl. SOI L IN INANIMATI- TMlNfJS
2 • Tin: HXTnRNAI. soi l. IN PLANTS
^ • TlIK EXTI-.RNAI. SOL I. IN ANIMALS
• Tin-: RITLAL Ol- DKATH ANT) RtSLRRIT:TION