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The Golden Bough

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Title: The Golden Bough A study of magic and religion
Author: Sir James George Frazer
Release Date: January, 2003 [EBook #3623] [This file was last updated on March 23, 2003]
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The Golden Bough: a study of magic and religion
by Sir James George Frazer

CONTENTS
Preface
Subject Index

Chapter 1.
The King of the Wood 1. Diana and Virbius 2. Artemis and Hippolytus 3. Recapitulation

Chapter 2.
Priestly Kings

Chapter 3.
Sympathetic Magic 1. The Principles of Magic 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 3. Contagious Magic 4. The Magician's Progress

Chapter 4.
Magic and Religion

Chapter 5.
The Magical Control of the Weather 1. The Public Magician 2. The Magical Control of Rain 3. The Magical Control of the Sun 4. The Magical Control of the Wind

Chapter 6.
Magicians as Kings

Chapter 7.
Incarnate Human Gods

Chapter 8.
Departmental Kings of Nature

Chapter 9.
The Worship of Trees 1. Tree-spirits 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits

Chapter 10.
Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe

Chapter 11.
The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

Chapter 12.
The Sacred Marriage 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility 2. The Marriage of the Gods

Chapter 13.
The Kings of Rome and Alba 1. Numa and Egeria 2. The King as Jupiter

Chapter 14.
Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium

Chapter 15.
The Worship of the Oak

Chapter 16.
Dianus and Diana

Chapter 17.
The Burden of Royalty 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power

Chapter 18.
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

Chapter 19.
Tabooed Acts 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking 3. Taboos on Showing the Face 4. Taboos on Quitting the House 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over

Chapter 20.
Tabooed Persons 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed 2. Mourners tabooed 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth 4. Warriors tabooed 5. Manslayers tabooed 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed

Chapter 21.
Tabooed Things 1. The Meaning of Taboo 2. Iron tabooed 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed 4. Blood tabooed 5. The Head tabooed 6. Hair tabooed 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails 9. Spittle tabooed 10. Foods tabooed 11. Knots and Rings tabooed

Chapter 22.
Tabooed Words 1. Personal Names tabooed 2. Names of Relations tabooed 3. Names of the Dead tabooed 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed 5. Names of Gods tabooed

Chapter 23.
Our Debt to the Savage

Chapter 24.
The Killing of the Divine King 1. The Mortality of the Gods 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term

Chapter 25.
Temporary Kings

Chapter 26.
Sacrifice of the Kings Son

Chapter 27.
Succession to the Soul

Chapter 28.
The Killing of the Tree-Spirit 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers 2. Burying the Carnival 3. Carrying out Death 4. Bringing in Summer 5. Battle of Summer and Winter 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation 8. Analogous Rites in India 9. The Magic Spring

Chapter 29.
The Myth of Adonis

Chapter 30.
Adonis in Syria

Chapter 31.
Adonis in Cyprus

Chapter 32.
The Ritual of Adonis

Chapter 33.
The Gardens of Adonis

Chapter 34.
The Myth and Ritual of Attis

Chapter 35.
Attis as a God of Vegetation

Chapter 36.
Human Representatives of Attis

Chapter 37.
Oriental Religions in the West

Chapter 38.
The Myth of Osiris

Chapter 39.
The Ritual of Osiris 1. The Popular Rites 2. The Official Rites

Chapter 40.
The Nature of Osiris 1. Osiris a Corn-god 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit 3. Osiris a God of Fertility 4. Osiris a God of the Dead

Chapter 41.
Isis

Chapter 42.
Osiris and the Sun

Chapter 43.
Dionysus

Chapter 44.
Demeter and Persephone

Chapter 45.
Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in N. Europe

Chapter 46.
Corn-Mother in Many Lands 1. The Corn-mother in America 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter

Chapter 47.
Lityerses 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers 2. Killing the Corn-spirit 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives

Chapter