Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Knives, not used at meals after a funeral, 227; of special pattern used in reaping rice, 414 |
Knots, tying up the wind in, 81; prohibition to wear, 174; untied at childbirth, 238, 240; thought to prevent the consummation of marriage, 240; thought to cause sickness and disease, 241; used to cure disease, win a lover, or stop a runaway, 242; magical virtue of, 242–243; tied in branches of trees as remedies, 545 |
Koniags of Alaska, 600 |
Koran, on magical knots, 241 |
Kore, Maiden, title of Persephone, 420 |
Kore, expelled on Easter Eve in Albania, 560 |
Koryaks, the, 156, 521, 523 |
Koschei the Deathless, story of, 671 |
Kostroma, funeral of, in Russia, 318 |
Kostrubonko, death and resurrection of, 317 |
Koui hunters in Laos, 529 |
Krishna, Hindoo god, 101 |
Kublai Khan, 228 |
Kuhn, Adalbert, 644 |
Kukulu, priestly king, 169 |
Kumis of South-eastern India, 549 |
Kunama, the, 107 |
Kupalo, mythical being, 317–318, 627, 652 |
Kurmis of India, 565 |
Kurnai of Victoria, 190, 689 |
Kuruvikkarans of Southern India, 94 |
Kwakiutl Indians, 66, 527, 678 |
Labyrinth, the Cretan, 280 |
Lac, taboos observed in gathering, 21 |
Lada, mythical being in Russia, 318 |
Ladder, for the use of a tree-spirit, 116; to facilitate the descent of the sun, 136 |
Lafitau, J. F., 256 |
Lagos, in West Africa, 295, 433 |
Lagrange, Father, 338 |
Lake-dwellers of Europe, 399 |
Lakor, island of, 566 |
Laluba, the, of the Upper Nile, 85 |
Lama of Tibet, the Grand, 102–103 |
Lamb, blood of, tasted by priestess to procure inspiration, 94; as expiatory victim, 224; thrown into lake as an offering, 390; killed sacramentally, 534 |
Laments for Tammuz, 326; for Osiris, 366 |
Lamps, dedication of, 3; to light ghosts to their old homes, 374 |
Landen, the battlefield of, 340 |
Language, special, 99; change of, caused by taboo, 254, 255, 257 |
Lanquineros, the, 138 |
Laos, in Siam, taboos observed at, 21, 23, 219, 594 |
Lapis manalis used in rain-making ceremony at Rome, 78 |
Lappland, tying up the wind in, 81 |
Lapps, the, 221, 238, 243, 256, 521, 529, 606 |
Latin League, the, 150, 167 |
Latinus, King, 149 |
Latium, ancient, the woods of, 150; succession to the kingdom in, 152–158 |
Latukas of the Upper Nile, 85, 87, 229 |
Laurel, 95, 148 |
Laws of Manu, 89, 100 |
Le Mole, on the Lake of Nemi, 4 |
Leaf Man, the Little, 128; King, 130 |
Leaping, to make crops grow high, 28; over bonfires, 560, 610, 613, 621, 624–626, 630, 631, 646, 656 |
Learchus, son of King Athamas, 290, 291 |
Leaves, disease transferred to, 539; fatigue transferred to, 540; used to expel demons, 567 |
Lechrain, 646; burying the Carnival in, 307 |
Legs not to be crossed, 239, 240 |
Leinster, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 173 |
Lemon, external souls of ogres in a, 669 |
Lendu tribe of Central Africa, 85 |
Lengua Indians, the, 82, 88, 253, 294, 526 |
Lent, personification of, 304 |
Lenten fires, 609 |
Leo the Great, 359 |
Leopard’s blood drunk or heart eaten to make eater brave, 495 |
Leopards, 523; external human souls in, 684–686 |
Lepers sacrificed by the Mexicans, 444 |
Leprosy, 473 |
Lerida in Catalonia, funeral of the Carnival at, 304 |
Lerotse leaves used in purification, 484 |
Leti, island of, marriage of the Sun and Earth in, 136; annual expulsion of diseases in, 566 |
Leto, 120 |
Letts of Russia, swing to make the flax grow high, 289 |
Leucadians, 579 |
Leucippe, daughter of Minyas, 292 |
Lewis, the island of, 81 |
Lhota Naga, the, 433 |
Libyans, the Alitemnian, 156 |
Licence, periods of, 158, 553, 555, 558, 575, 583 |
Lightning, magical imitation of, 63; imitation of, by kings, 77, 149; talismans against, 614, 615, 626, 637, 638, 649; regarded as a god descending out of heaven, 708; strikes oak oftener than any other tree, 708, 709; places struck by, enclosed and deemed sacred, 709 |
Lime-trees, sacred, 161 |
Linus or Ailinus, Phoenician vintage song, 425, 442 |
Lion, purification of killer of a, 221; flesh or heart eaten to make eater brave, 495 |
Lithuania, tree-worship in, 110; sacred groves in, 118; May Day in, 126; last sheaf in, 405; harvest customs in, 406, 428; ceremonies observed at eating the new corn in, 480, 481; Midsummer fires in, 627 |
Lithuanians, 161, 227, 665 |
Lityerses, 424–447 |
Lizard, soul in form of, 182; or snake, in ceremony for riddance of evils, 568 |
Ljeschie, Russian wood-spirits, 465 |
Llama, black, as scapegoat, 565 |
Loango, king of, 86, 98, 199–201; taboos observed by kings of, 171; food tabooed to priests in, 238; girls secluded at puberty in, 595 |