Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Apologies offered to trees, 113, 115, 116; by savages to the animals they kill, 520, 523 |
Apoyaos, head-hunters, 433 |
Apple-tree, barren women roll under, to obtain offspring, 120; straw man placed on oldest, 467; torches thrown at, 610; as life-index of boy, 682 |
Arab charms, 31, 242; name for the scarlet anemone, 336 |
Arabia, belief as to shadows in ancient, 190; camel as scapegoat in, 540 |
Arabian Nights, story of the external soul in the, 674 |
Arabs, of Moab, 32, 378; of North Africa, 70 |
Araucanians of South America, 245 |
Archigallus, high priest of Attis, 349, 353 |
Arctic regions, ceremonies at the reappearance of the sun in the, 551 |
Arden, forest of, 110 |
Ardennes, effigies of Carnival in the, 305; exorcising rats in the, 531; bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, 609, 656; Lenten fires and customs in the French, 610 |
Aricia, 1, 2; many Manii at, 6, 491; its distance from the sanctuary, 106; the priest of, 582, 592, 593, 703 |
Arician grove, 5, 6, 301, 477–479, 491, 582, 704 |
Arizona, aridity of, 76 |
Armenia, rain-making in, 70; cut hair, nails, and extracted teeth preserved in, 236; sacred prostitution of girls before marriage in, 331 |
Arrows, in homeopathic magic, 29; in contagious magic, 41; fire-tipped, shot at sun during an eclipse, 78; shot as a rain-charm, 99 |
Arsacid house, divinity of Parthian kings of the, 104 |
Art, sylvan deities in classical, 117 |
Artemis, 120, 140, 141; and Hippolytus, 4–7; and Apollo, 120; of Ephesus, 141, 349; at Perga, 330; the Hanged, 355 |
Aru Islands, custom of not sleeping after a death in the, 182; dog’s flesh eaten to make eater brave, 496 |
Arunta of Central Australia, 17, 603 |
Arval Brothers, 224, 578. |
Aryan god of thunder, 638 |
Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings, 89; in Europe, 110, 159, 161, 163, 656, 665; descent of kingship through women, 155; of ancient India, 490; their use of the sacred oak-wood, 666; stories of the external soul, 668; reverence for the oak, 709 |
Ascension Day, 312, 702 |
Ascetic idealism of the East, 139 |
Ash-tree in popular cures, 546, 682 |
Ash Wednesday 302, 304, 305, 461, 614 |
Ashantees, 497 |
Ashes, in magic, 30–32, 72, 76; of human victims scattered on fields, 378–380, 433, 436–438, 442, 443; of bonfires, use of, 611, 615, 621, 635, 645, 646; of Midsummer fires, 626, 629, 631, 632; of the Yule log, 637; of the need-fire, 640 |
Asia Minor, pontiffs in, 9; human scapegoats in, 579 |
Asongtata, annual ceremony performed by the Garos of Assam, 568 |
Asopus, the river, 143 |
Aspalis, a form of Artemis, 355 |
Ass, in cure for scorpion’s bite, 544 |
Assam, the hill tribes of, taboos observed by the headman and his wife, 173, and by warriors, 212; parents named after their children in, 248; head-hunting in, 441; the Asongtata ceremony in, 568 |
Assumption of the Virgin, festival of, 360 |
Astarte, a great Babylonian goddess, 327, 335, 346 |
Athamas, king of Alus, 290–292 |
Athena and the aegis, 477 |
Athenian sacrifice of the bouphonia, 466 |
Athenians, decree divine honours to Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus, 97; prayed to Zeus for rain, 159; their tribute of youths and maidens to Minos, 280; sacrifice to Dionysus for the fruits of the land, 386; their use of human scapegoats, 579 |
Athens, king and queen at, 9; titular king at, 106; marriage of Dionysus at, 142; female kinship at, 155; sacred spots struck by lightning at, 159; the Commemoration of the Dead at, 340; Dionysus of the Black Goatskin at, 390; annual sacrifice of a goat on the Acropolis of, 477; fever transferred to pillar at, 545 |
Atonement, Jewish Day of, 569 |
Attica, summer festival of Adonis in, 336; Flowery Dionysus in, 387; time of threshing in, 466; killing an ox formerly a capital crime in, 466 |
Attis, and Cybele, 4, 5, 8; myth and ritual of, 347–352; as a god of vegetation, 352, 353; human representatives of, 353–356; his relation to Lityerses, 440; killed by a boar, 471 |
Augustine, 359, 382 |
Augustus as a ruler, 46 |
Aun or On, King of Sweden, 278, 290 |
Aurelia Aemilia, a sacred harlot, 331 |
Australia, magical ceremonies in, 17; charms in, 32; contagious magic in, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45; magic practised but religion nearly unknown in aboriginal, 55; rain-making in, 64, 65, 72, 76; detaining the sun or hastening its descent in, 80; dust columns thought to be spirits in, 82; government of old men in aboriginal, 83; ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe, 197; totemism in, 533; annual expulsion of ghosts in, 550; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 603; initiation of young men in, 692 |
——, Central, magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, 17; charm to promote the growth of beards in, 32; contagious magic of wounds in, 42; headmen of totem clans public magicians in, 83; conceàlment of personal names in, 245; avoidance of the names of the dead in, 252; magical rites for the revival of nature in, 323; expelling the devil in, 548 |