The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and ReligionA world classic. The Golden Bough describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of his weird and often bloodthirsty customs to the entry of lasting moral, ethical, and spiritual values. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
PRIESTLY KINGS | 10 |
MAGIC AND RELIGION | 56 |
RELICS OF TREEWORSHIP IN MODERN EUROPE | 139 |
THE INFLUENCE OF THE SEXES ON VEGETATION | 156 |
THE KINGS OF ROME AND ALBA | 169 |
THE SUCCESSION TO THE KINGDOM | 176 |
XV | 184 |
DEMETER AND PERSEPHONE | 456 |
THE CORNMOTHER AND THE CORNMAIDEN | 463 |
THE CORNMOTHER IN MANY LANDS | 478 |
LITYERSES | 492 |
The Cornspirit slain in his Human Representatives | 508 |
XLVIII | 518 |
The Cornspirit as a Hare | 524 |
The Cornspirit as a Horse or Mare | 532 |
THE BURDEN OF ROYALTY | 194 |
THE PERILS OF THE SOUL | 206 |
TABOOED ACTS | 225 |
XX | 232 |
The Head tabooed | 268 |
Spittle tabooed | 276 |
XXII | 284 |
XXIII | 305 |
TEMPORARY KINGS | 330 |
XXVI | 336 |
THE KILLING OF THE TREESPIRIT | 344 |
THE MYTH OF ADONIS | 376 |
ADONIS IN CYPRUS | 383 |
XXXII | 389 |
THE GARDENS OF ADONIS | 396 |
XXXIV | 403 |
ATTIS AS A GOD OF VEGETATION | 409 |
THE MYTH OF OSIRIS | 420 |
OSIRIS AND THE | 446 |
DIONYSUS | 448 |
YLIX | 538 |
Attis Adonis and the | 546 |
Virbius and the Horse | 552 |
THE PROPITIATION OF WILD ANIMALS | 556 |
THE TRANSFERENCE OF EVIL | 624 |
LVI | 633 |
PUBLIC SCAPEGOATS | 651 |
LX | 686 |
THE MYTH OF BALDER | 703 |
THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FIREFESTIVALS | 743 |
BALDER AND THE MISTLETOE | 763 |
THE EXTERNAL SOUL IN FOLKTALES | 773 |
CHAPTER PAGE | 787 |
FAREWELL TO NEMI | 824 |
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