The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Bulawayo, ii. 70
Bulgarians, the Carnival among the, ii. 331 _sqq._
Bull, corn-spirit as, i. 288 _sqq._, ii. 8;
in relation to Dionysus, i. 16 _sq._, 31
——, live, torn to pieces in rites of Dionysus, i. 15, 17, ii. 16
——, sacrifice of, ii. 68 _n._ 3;
at Magnesia, 7 _sq._;
in Mithraic religion, 10;
at tomb of dead chief, 113
—— -fights, ii. 66
—— -roarers, i. 19 _n._ 1, ii. 295;
as magical instruments, i. 104, 106 _sq._, 110
—— -shaped deities, i. 3 _sqq._
Bulls, sacred, of ancient Egypt, ii. 34 _sqq._
Burghers or Badagas, the, ii. 55
Burial rites intended to deceive ghosts or demons, ii. 97 _sqq._
Burials, fictitious, to divert the attention of demons from the real
burials, ii. 98 _sqq._
Buring Une, a goddess, i. 93
Burma, ii. 116;
securing the rice-soul in, i. 190 _sq._;
custom at threshing rice in, 203 _sq._;
head-hunting in, i. 256
Burmese cure, ii. 103
Burne, Miss C. S., i. 266
Burning last sheaf of corn, i. 146
—— the Old Witch, i. 224
Buru, island, ii. 54, 145
Bush negroes of Surinam, ii. 26
Bushmen, ii. 29, 206, 266 _n._ 1;
their customs as to diet, 140 _sq._
Busiris, i. 259 _sq._
_Busk_, festival of first-fruits, ii. 72
_Butea frondosa_, ii. 119
Butterflies, souls of dead in, ii. 290, 291, 296 _sq._
Butterfly of the rice, i. 190
Button snake root, emetic made from, ii. 73, 75
Buzzard, killing the sacred, ii. 169 _sqq._
Caffre elephant-hunters, ii. 227
Caffres, their festival of new fruits, ii. 64 _sqq._;
their custom of fumigating infants, 166 _sq._;
of South Africa, their observation of the Pleiades, i. 315;
of the Zambesi region, ii. 289
_Cailleach_ (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, i. 140 _sqq._, 164
_sqq._
Caingua Indians of Paraguay, ii. 285
Cakes in obscene shapes, i. 62
Calabash, ceremony of breaking the, ii. 68 _n._ 3
Calabria, custom observed by murderers in, ii. 156
Calendar, regulation of, an affair of religion, i. 83;
the Roman, 83 _sq._;
primitive, 125 _sq._
Calendars, the Pleiades in primitive, i. 307 _sqq._
Calf sacrificed to Dionysus, i. 33;
killed at harvest, 290;
sacrifice of buffalo, ii. 314
California, Indians of, i. 125, ii. 169, 286
Californian missions, the Spanish, ii. 171 _n._ 1
Callaway, Rev. H., i. 316
Callias, the Eleusinian Torch-bearer, i. 54, 73 _n._ 3
Cambodia, ii. 103
Cameron, Hugh E., i. 162 _n._ 3
Campbell, Major J., i. 248, 250
Campbell, Rev. J. G., i. 140
Cancer, Tropic of, i. 125
Candlemas, i. 300
Canelos Indians of Ecuador, ii. 285
Cannibal orgies, i. 18 _sqq._
—— Spirit, i. 21
Cannibals, a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians, i. 20
Canopus, i. 308
Capricorn, Tropic of, i. 125
Carcassone, hunting the wren at, ii. 320 _sq._
Carian Chersonese, ii. 85
Carib warriors, ii. 162
Caribs, the, i. 120, ii. 139
Carinthia, harvest custom in, i. 224 _sq._
Carley, the, i. 144
Carlin or Carline, the, i. 140
Carnival, modern Thracian drama at the, i. 26 _sqq._, ii. 331
—— Bear, ii. 325
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