The Golden Bough/Subject Index

CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. The King of the Wood 1 § 1. Diana and Virbius 1 § 2. Artemis and Hippolytus 6 § 3. Recapitulation 7 II. Priestly Kings 9 III. Sympathetic Magic 11 § 1. The Principles of Magic 11 § 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic 12 § 3. Contagious Magic 37 § 4. The Magician’s Progress 45 IV. Magic and Religion 48 V. The Magical Control of the Weather 60 § 1. The Public Magician 60 § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 62 § 3. The Magical Control of the Sun 78 § 4. The Magical Control of the Wind 80 VI. Magicians as Kings 83 VII. Incarnate Human Gods 91 VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature 106 IX. The Worship of Trees 109 § 1. Tree-spirits 109 § 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits 117 X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe 120 XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation 135 XII. The Sacred Marriage 139 § 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility 139 § 2. The Marriage of the Gods 142 XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba 146 § 1. Numa and Egeria 146 § 2. The King as Jupiter 148 XIV. Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium 152 XV. The Worship of the Oak 159 XVI. Dianus and Diana 161 XVII. The Burden of Royalty 168 § 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos 168 § 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power 175 XVIII. The Perils of the Soul 178 § 1. The Soul as a Mannikin 178 § 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul 180 § 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection 189 XIX. Tabooed Acts 194 § 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers 194 § 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking 198 § 3. Taboos on showing the Face 199 § 4. Taboos on quitting the House 200 § 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over 200 XX. Tabooed Persons 202 § 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed 202 § 2. Mourners tabooed 205 § 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth 207 § 4. Warriors tabooed 210 § 5. Manslayers tabooed 212 § 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed 216 XXI. Tabooed Things 223 § 1. The Meaning of Taboo 223 § 2. Iron tabooed 224 § 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed 226 § 4. Blood tabooed 227 § 5. The Head tabooed 230 § 6. Hair tabooed 231 § 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting 233 § 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails 233 § 9. Spittle tabooed 237 § 10. Foods tabooed 238 § 11. Knots and Rings tabooed 238 XXII. Tabooed Words 244 § 1. Personal Named tabooed 244 § 2. Names of Relations tabooed 249 § 3. Names of the Dead tabooed 251 § 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed 257 § 5. Named of Gods tabooed 260 XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage 264 XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King 264 § 1. The Mortality of the Gods 264 § 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails 265 § 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term 274 XXV. Temporary Kings 283 XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son 289 XXVII. Succession to the Soul 293 XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit 296 § 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers 296 § 2. Burying the Carnival 301 § 3. Carrying out Death 307 § 4. Bringing in Summer 311 § 5. Battle of Summer and Winter 316 § 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko 317 § 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation 318 § 8. Analogous Rites in India 319 § 9. The Magic Spring 320 XXIX. The Myth of Adonis 324 XXX. Adonis in Syria 327 XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus 329 XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis 335 XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis 341 XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis 347 XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation 352 XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis 353 XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West 356 XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris 362 XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris 368 § 1. The Popular Rites 368 § 2. The Official Rites 373 XL. The Nature of Osiris 377 § 1. Osiris a Corn-god 377 § 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit 380 § 3. Osiris a God of Fertility 381 § 4. Osiris a God of the Dead 381 XLI. Isis 382 XLII. Osiris and the Sun 384 XLIII. Dionysus 385 XLIV. Demeter and Persephone 393 XLV. The Corn-mother and Corn-maiden in Northern Europe 399 XLVI. The Corn-mother in Many Lands 412 § 1. The Corn-mother in America 412 § 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies 413 § 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings 419 § 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter 420 XLVII. Lityerses 424 § 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers 424 § 2. Killing the Corn-spirit 425 § 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops 431 § 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives 438 XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal 447 § 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 447 § 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog 448 § 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock 450 § 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare 452 § 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat 453 § 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat 454 § 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox 457 § 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare 459 § 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow) 460 § 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit 462 XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals 464 § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull 464 § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse 469 § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig 471 § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull 472 § 5. Virbius and the Horse 476 L. Eating the God 479 § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits 479 § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs 488 § 3. Many Manii at Aricia 491 LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet 494 LII. Killing the Divine Animal 499 § 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard 499 § 2. Killing the Sacred Ram 500 § 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent 501 § 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles 502 § 5. Killing the Sacred Bear 505 LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters 518 LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament 532 § 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament 532 § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals 535 LV. The Transference of Evil 538 § 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects 538 § 2. The Transference to Animals 540 § 3. The Transference to Men 542 § 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe 543 LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils 546 § 1. The Omnipresence of Demons 546 § 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils 547 § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils 551 LVII. Public Scapegoats 562 § 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils 562 § 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle 563 § 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle 566 § 4. On Scapegoats in General 574 LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity 577 § 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome 577 § 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece 578 § 3. The Roman Saturnalia 583 LIX. Killing the God in Mexico 587 LX. Between Heaven and Earth 592 § 1. Not to touch the Earth 592 § 2. Not to see the Sun 595 § 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 595 § 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty 603 LXI. The Myth of Balder 607 LXII. The Fire Festivals in Europe 609 § 1. The Fire-festivals in general 609 § 2. The Lenten Fires 609 § 3. The Easter Fires 614 § 4. The Beltane Fires 617 § 5. The Midsummer Fires 622 § 6. The Hallowe’en Fires 632 § 7. The Midwinter Fires 636 § 8. The Need-fire 638 LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-festivals 641 § 1. On the Fire-festivals in general 641 § 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals 643 § 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals 647 LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires 650 § 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires 650 § 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires 652 LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe 658 LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-tales 667 LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-custom 679 § 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things 679 § 2. The External Soul in Plants 681 § 3. The External Soul in Animals 683 § 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection 691 LXVIII. The Golden Bough 701 LXIX. Farewell to Nemi 711 Index 715 The Golden Bough Frontispiece

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