Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Saxony, May or Whitsuntide trees in, 123; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 300; “carrying out Death” in, 309; Oats bride and bridegroom in, 409; fires to burn the witches in, 622 |
Scandinavia, female descent of the kingship in, 155 |
Scandinavian custom of the Yule Boar, 461 |
Scapegoat, Jewish use of, 569; a material vehicle for expulsion of evils, 575 |
Scapegoats, animals as, 540, 565, 568; birds as, 541; public, 562–577; divine animals as, 570, 576; divine men as, 571, 576; in general, 574 |
——, human, 542, 565, 569; in classical antiquity, 577–587 |
Scheube, Dr. B., 507 |
Schleswig, custom at threshing in, 431 |
Schrenck, L. vons, 511 |
Schuyler, E., 543 |
Science, and magic, 48, 711; and religion, 712 |
Scorpion’s bite, pain transferred to an ass, 544 |
Scorpions, Isis and the, 364 |
Scotland, magical images in, 56; witches raise wind in, 80; iron as a safeguard against fairies in, 226; witch burnt in, 243; harvest customs in, 341, 403, 406–408, 452; names given to last corn cut in, 403, 409, 480; saying as to the wren in, 536; witchcraft in, 542; worship of Grannus in, 611; Beltane fires in, 617–620; few traces of Midsummer fires in, 631; Hallowe’en fires in, 635; need-fire in, 639–641. See also Highlands |
Scouvion, or Escouvion, in Belgium, 610 |
Scrofula, 90, 203, 204 |
Scylla, daughter of Nisus, 670 |
Scythians, the, 87 |
Sea Dyaks, 25, 239, 249, 531 |
Sea-god, human sacrifice to, 579 |
Seals, care taken of the bladders and bones of, 526 |
Sealskins in sympathy with the tides, 35 |
Seasons, magical and religious theories of the, 324 |
Seb (Keb or Geb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, 362 |
Secretiveness of the savage, 691 |
Sedna, Esquimau goddess, 552 |
Seed-corn, 420, 452, 461, 463, 469, 470, 666; -rice, 284; -time, annual expulsion of demons at, 557 |
Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, 379 |
Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, 375 |
Selangor, rice-crop supposed to depend on the district officer of, 89; durian-trees threatened in, 113 |
Seligman, Dr. C. G., 266, 270 |
Semele, mother of Dionysus, 265, 389 |
Seminole Indians of Florida, 486, 520 |
Semites, the, 293 |
Semitic Baal, 281; kings as hereditary deities, 333; personal names, indicating relationship to a deity, 333; worship of Adonis, 325 |
Senal Indians of California, 707 |
Sencis of Peru, the, 78 |
Senegambia, Python clan in, 502; the mistletoe in, 660 |
Serbia, rain-making ceremony in, 69; Midsummer fires in, 627; the Yule log in, 638; need-fire in, 640 |
Serbian women’s charm to hoodwink their husbands, 32 |
Serpents, in magic, 32; ceremonies observed after killing, 222; killing the sacred, 501; burnt alive, 655, 658 |
Servius Tullius, Roman king, 152 |
Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, 363, 365, 475 |
Seven, the number in magical ceremonies, etc., 242, 280, 417, 610, 631 |
Sex totems, 687–688 |
Sexes, of plants, recognised by some savages and by the ancients, 114; influence of the, on vegetation, 135–139; danger apprehended from the relation of the, 700 |
Sexual intercourse practised to make the crops and fruit grow, 135–136 |
Seyf el-Mulook and the jinnee, story of, 674 |
Shadow, the soul identified with the, 189–192 |
Shadows, of people drawn out by ghosts, 190; animals injured through their, 190; of certain persons dangerous, 190, 207; of people built into foundations of edifices, 191 |
Shakespeare on death at ebb tide, 35 |
Shamans, 88, 683 |
Shanghai, geomancy at, 36 |
Shans of Burma, 77 |
Sheba or Sabaea, kings of, 200 |
Sheep, torn by wolf in homoeopathic magic, 32; used in purificatory ceremony, 214; black, sacrificed for rain, 72 |
Shell, called the “old man,” 33 |
Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, 375 |
Shetland, witches in, 81 |
Shilluk, the, 266, 294; their kings, 295 |
Shoes, of priestess, 174; of boar’s skin worn by king at inauguration, 594 |
Shooting star, superstition as to, 279 |
Shrove Tuesday, customs on, 134, 302, 305, 317, 461, 614, 651, 656 |
Shrovetide customs, 298; Bear, 306 |
Shuswap Indians, 66, 190, 207 |
Siam, kings of, 99, 224, 257, 593; objection to the king’s image on coins in, 193; mode of executing royal criminals in, 228; belief that a guardian spirit dwells in the head in, 230; ceremony at cutting a child’s hair in, 235; temporary kings in, 284, 289; annual expulsion of demons in, 559; human scapegoat in, 570 |
Siamese monks, 112; story of the external soul, 669 |
Siaoo, belief as to sylvan spirits in, 116 |
Siberia, bear-festival in, 510; sable-hunters in, 525; external souls of shamans in, 683 |
Sibyl, the, and the Golden Bough, 3 |
Sibylline Books, the, 348 |
Sicily, attempts to compel the saints to give rain in, 74, 75; gardens of Adonis in, 344; Good Friday ceremonies in, 345; Midsummer fires in, 631 |
Sickness, homoeopathic magic for the cure of, 15; explained by the absence of the soul, 183; ascribed to possession by demons and cured by exorcism, 196, 547; cured or prevented by effigies, 492; transferred to things, 539, or people, 540, 544, or animals, 540, 544; bonfires a protection against, 610 |
Sicknesses expelled in a ship, 563 |
Sierra Leone, 174; custom of beating a king on the eve of his coronation in, 176 |