The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)Frazer, James George
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Kolosh Indians, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 230
Koniags, seclusion of girls amongst the, ii. 230
Königshain, driving out Death in, i. 276
Konkan, scapegoat used in Southern, in cases of cholera, ii. 191
Konz, midsummer fire festival in, ii. 260, 261
Kostroma, funeral of, i. 273
Kostrubonko, i. 272
Kukulu, the priest king, i. 112, 113
Kumis, driving away small-pox by the, ii. 161
Kupalo, funeral of, i. 272;
representation of, i. 292
Kupole’s festival, i. 294
Lachlin family and the deer, ii. 363
La Ciotat, hunting the wren in, ii. 144
Lada, funeral of, i. 273
Lagos, human sacrifices at, i. 383
Lakor, expulsion of diseases to sea in, ii. 192
Lamas, Grand, i. 42, 43;
the chief of the, i. 43, 44
Lamb killed sacramentally by the Madi tribe of Central Africa, ii. 137,
138
Lamps, festival of, ii. 176
Laos, precautions against strangers in, i. 152;
belief in plurality of souls amongst the, ii. 339
Laosia, women worshippers in, i. 42
La Palisse, harvest custom in, ii. 68
Lapis manalis, i. 22
Lappland, wind selling in, i. 27;
ceremony at the sacrifice of an animal in, ii. 123;
seclusion of women in, ii. 240
Larch-tree, sacred, i. 61, 62
Lazy man, the, i. 89
Lechrain, midsummer fires in, ii. 258, 259
Leipzig, carrying out the effigy of Death in, i. 268
Lent customs, ii. 247-249
Leopard, ceremony at the killing of a, ii. 114
Leper, custom at the cleansing of a, ii. 151
Lerwick wind-sellers, i. 27
Leti, expulsion of diseases to sea by the, ii. 92
Leucadian scapegoat, ii. 213
Lewis, wind selling in the island of, i. 27
Lhoosai, harvest festival of the, i. 69
Libchowic, Mid-Lent custom in the neighbourhood of, i. 93
Licence, periods of, ii. 204
Life of a person bound up with that of a plant, ii. 328-330
Life plants, ii. 329, 330
Lille, harvest ceremonies at, ii. 25, 26
Linus, the name given to the Phoenician lament at vintage time, i. 365
—— song, i. 398, 399
—— identified with Adonis, i. 399
Lion, ceremony at the killing of a, ii. 114;
Arabic belief in the properties of lion’s fat, ii. 86
Lithuania, sun worshippers in, i. 24, 25;
tree worshippers in, i. 58;
superstition concerning the felling of sacred groves in, i. 66, 67;
May customs in, i. 83, 84;
custom after a funeral in, i. 177;
harvest custom in, i. 340, 341;
ceremony at threshing time in, i. 372, 373;
ceremonies by the peasants at the eating of the new corn in, ii. 69, 70
Little leaf man, i. 88
Lityerses compared with harvest customs, i. 366, 367;
story of, i. 392-395;
relation of, to Attis, i. 396, 397
—— the name given to a song by the Phrygian reapers, i. 365, 366
Liver, the, thought to be the seat of the soul, ii. 88
Livonia, sacred grove in, i. 65
Llandebie, sin eating in, ii. 155
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