Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Locks unlocked at childbirth, 238, 239; thought to prevent consummation of marriage, 240; unlocked to facilitate death, 243; mistletoe as a master-key to open all, 663 |
Locusts, chiefs held responsible for ravages of, 87; superstitious precautions against, 531 |
Logan, W., 276 |
Loki and Balder, 608 |
Lokoiya, the, of the Upper Nile, 85 |
Lolos of Western China, the, 183 |
Lombok, island of, 418 |
Longevity, charms to ensure, 35 |
“Longevity garments” in China, 36 |
Loom not to be touched by a man, 211 |
“Lord of the Heavenly Hosts” in Siam, 284 |
Lorraine, harvest customs in, 428, 449, 457 |
Love charms, 44 |
“Love Chase” among the Kirghiz, 156 |
Loyalty Islands, recall of a lost soul in the, 185 |
Lules or Tonocotes of the Gran Chaco, 550 |
Lusatia, “carrying out Death” in, 310–313 |
Luxor, paintings at, 142 |
Lycurgus, king of the Thracian Edonians, 378, 379, 392 |
Lydia, religious prostitution in, 331; festival of Dionysus in, 390 |
Ma, goddess at Comana in Pontus, 331 |
Mabuaig, continence observed during turtle-season, 217; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 598 |
Macahity, a Hawaiian festival, 282, 283 |
M’Carthy, Sir Charles, eaten by the Ashantees to make them brave, 497 |
Macdonald, Rev. James, 18, 680 |
Macedonian calendar, 443 |
MacGregor, Sir William, 84 |
Macpherson, Major S. C., 437 |
Macusis of British Guiana, 181, 601 |
Madagascar, king of, as high priest, 9; foods tabooed in, 22; custom of women while men are at war in, 26; magical use of stones in, 33; modes of counteracting evil omens, 37; fear of being photographed in, 193; taboo on mentioning personal names in, 246; names of chiefs and kings tabooed, 258; crocodiles respected in, 519. See also Malagasy |
Madanassana Bushmen, 474 |
Madi tribe of Central Africa, 534 |
Madonna and Isis, their resemblance, 383 |
Madura, inspired mediums in, 95 |
Magic, principles of, 11; sympathetic, 10–48, 200, 202, 211, 219, 233, 237, 386, 403, 533; homoeopathic or imitative, 11–37, 63, 221, 239, 240, 341, 444, 494–499, 581, 642, 704; contagious, 11, 37–45, 230, 233, 235; positive and negative, 19, 21, 29; public and private, 45–61; and religion, 48–60, 64, 90, 92, 162, 324; and science, 48, 49, 712; attraction of, 49; the Age of, 55, 56; universality of belief in, 55, 56; fallacy of, 59, 90; movement of thought from magic through religion to science, 711 |
Magician, public, 45, 60; and priest, 52 |
Magicians, claim to compel the gods, 52; professional, 61; as kings, 83–91; develop into gods and kings, 92; the oldest professional class in the evolution of society, 105; Egyptian, 52, 261 |
Magnets thought to keep brothers at unity, 34 |
Magondi, a Mashona chief, 98 |
Magyar story of the external soul, 674 |
Maharajas as incarnations of Krishna, 101 |
Mahrattas, 100 |
Mai Darat, a Sakai tribe, 493 |
Maiden, the (Persephone), the descent of, 371; name given to the last corn cut in the Highlands of Scotland, 403, 409 |
Maidhdeanbuain, “the shorn maiden,” 407 |
Maidu Indians of California, 707, 708 |
Maize, goddess of, 28; magic to promote its growth, 28, and increase, 33; personified as an Old Woman who Never Dies, 419; goddess of the young, 588 |
Maize-mother, the, 412, 413 |
Makololo, the, of South Africa, 236 |
Makrizi, Arab historian, 64 |
Malabar, custom of Thalavettiparothiam in, 278; cows as scapegoats in, 570; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 602 |
Malagasy, 217, 519; faditras among the, 541 |
Malay charms and magic, 13, 19, 28, 80; taboos, 21 |
Malays, the, 88, 113, 179, 181, 183, 184, 188, 230, 248, 413, 417, 541, 676, 683 |
Maldive Islands, virgin sacrificed as bride to a jinnee of the sea in the, 146 |
Mallans of India, 565 |
Malta, Midsummer fires in, 631; Phoenician temples of, 330; fires on St. John’s Eve in, 631 |
Mamurius Veturius, 577, 580 |
Man, Isle of. See Isle of Man |
Man-god, 10, 60, 92, 203, 265 |
Mandan Indians, 419, 562 |
Mandelings of Sumatra, the, 116, 239 |
Maneros, chant of Egyptian reapers, 365, 371, 372, 424 |
Mangaia, Pacific island, separation of religious and civil authority in, 177 |
Mangaians, the, 191 |
Mani of Chitombe or Jumba, 234 |
Manii at Aricia, many, 491 |
Manipur, Rajah of, and his human scapegoat, 543 |
Manius Egerius, 6, 492 |
Mannhardt, W., 118, 127, 129, 316, 399, 401, 402, 419, 459, 460, 465, 580, 642, 643, 654, 658 |
Man-slayers tabooed, 212–216 |
Manu, the Laws of, 89 |
Maori chiefs, 204, 230, 231, 235, 259 |
Maoris, 114, 197, 205, 210, 233, 234, 528, 682 |
Maraves, the, of South Africa, 116 |
Marcellus of Bordeaux, 16, 17, 544 |
Mare, corn-spirit as, 459 |
Marena (Winter or Death) on Midsummer Eve in Russia, 318 |
Marigolds in magic, 44 |
Marimos, Bechuana tribe, 433 |
Marquesans, 180, 231–233 |