The Golden Bough

Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1900. Excerpt: ... INDEX Acosta, on Peruvian Mother of the Maize, ii. 193; on Mexican sacra- ments, 338 sqq. Aclar, feast of Purim held in month of, iii. 154, 173, 176, 177, 189 Adonis, ii. 115 sqq.; rites of, 116; gardens of, 119 sqq.; identified with Linus, 253; as a pig, 304 sq. and Aphrodite, probably repre- sented by a living couple, iii. 166 Adoption, form of, i. 21 sq. Adultery, influence of wife's, on hus- band, i. 29; supposed effect of, upon the crops, ii. 211 sq. Aeson and Medea, ii. 355 Afterbirth in sympathetic magic, i. 53 sqq. Ailinus, ii. 224 Ainos, their worship and sacrifice of the bear, ii. 374 Albigenses, i. 149 "All-healer," name of the mistletoe in the Celtic languages, iii. 343 Amadhlozi, ancestral spirits of Zulus in form of snakes, iii. 410 note Amenophis IV., his revolution in religion of Egypt, ii. 149 sq. Ammon, ram sacrificed at festival of, ii. 368 sq. Anaitis, a Persian goddess, identified with Ishtar or Astarte, iii. 151, 160 sqq. Ancestors, first-fruits offered to spirits of, ii. 460, 462, 463, 464 sqq.; souls of, annually revisit their old homes, iii. 83, 85-89 Anemone, the red, the blood of Adonis, ii. 116 sq. Angel-man, beheading the, iii. 299 sq. Animal, killing the divine, ii. 366 sqq.; two types of the custom, 437 Animals, in magic, i. 41-43; in rain- charms, 101 sqq.; not called by their proper names, 454 sqq.; sub- stituted for human victims, ii. 38 note 2,168; imagessacrificedinsteadof, 344 note; eaten as a means of acquiring their qualities, 353 sqq.; regarded by savages as like men, 387 sqq.; act on principles of blood feud, 389 sqq.; propitiation of slaughtered, 396 sqq.; souls of dead lodged in certain, 430 sqq.; two types of worship of, 436 sq.; processions with, 446 sqq.; trans- ference of evil (disease, misfortune, etc.) to, iii. 13 sqq., 23 sqq.; as s...