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
—— skins, mummers clad in, i. 26 _sqq._
Goat’s neck, name given to last standing corn, i. 268
Goats torn to pieces by fanatics in Morocco, i. 21 _sq._;
sacrificed to wolves, ii. 284
God, the Dying and Reviving, i. 1, 33;
killed in animal form, 22 _sq._;
eating the, ii. 48 _sqq._
Gods, death and resurrection of, i. 1, 12 _sqq._;
distinguished from spirits, 169;
in the likeness of foreigners, 236
Goldi, bear-festivals of the, ii. 197
—— shaman, ii. 103
Goldsmith, transmigration of thief into, ii. 299
Gonds, human sacrifices among the, i. 244
Good Friday, i. 33
—— Spirit, the, i. 206
Goose, to lose the, i. 277 _n._ 3
Gorillas, souls of dead in, ii. 289
Grandmother, name given to last sheaf, i. 136
Grapes, the last, not to be stript, i. 234 _sq._
Grasshoppers, charm against, ii. 281
Grave of Dionysus, i. 14
Graves, sacrifices at, ii. 113;
false, to deceive demons, ii. 99 _sq._
Great Bassam, in Guinea, ii. 9
—— Eleusinian Games, i. 71, 79
—— Mother, the, name given to the last sheaf, i. 135 _sq._
—— Mysteries of Eleusis, their date, i. 51
Great Sun, title of head chief of the Natchez, ii. 77 _sqq._
—— Vigil, i. 176
Greece, theory of the transmigration of souls in ancient, ii. 300
Greek divinities who died and rose again, i. 2;
farmers, their seasons for sowing and reaping, i. 318
—— months lunar, i. 52
—— summer rainless, i. 69
Green Corn Dance, ii. 76
—— Festival at Eleusis, i. 63
Greenlanders, the, ii. 246
Gregor, Rev. Walter, i. 158 _sqq._
Gregory of Tours, ii. 281
Grey, Sir George, quoted, i. 127
Ground, last sheaf not allowed to touch the, i. 158, 159, 161
Guadacanal, island of, ii. 127
Guaranis, the, of Paraguay, i. 309
“Guardian gods” of the Hos, i. 234
Guardian-spirit, ii. 60;
of family, i. 121
—— spirits of American Indians, ii. 207
Guayaquil, in Ecuador, i. 236
Guaycurus of the Gran Chaco, i. 309
Guazacualco, ii. 259
Guiana, Indians of British, i. 120, ii. 236;
their animism, 204
Guinea-fowl gives signal for planting, i. 117
Guns fired to repel demons, ii. 99
_Guré_, a hobby-horse, ii. 337 _sq._
Haddon, Dr. A. C., i. 106 _n._ 1
Hadrian institutes games at Mantinea, i. 80
Hag (_wrach_), name given to last corn cut in Wales, i. 142 _sqq._
Hahn, Theophilus, i. 317
Haida Indians, i. 20
Hair of slain foes, use made of, ii. 153
Halibut, the first of the season, treatment of, ii. 253
Hallowmas, i. 140
Halmahera, i. 183
_Haloa_, Attic festival, i. 60 _sqq._
Hamstring of deer, custom of removing, ii. 266
Hamstringing dead animals, ii. 267, 271, 273
—— men to disable their ghosts, ii. 272, 273
Hand-marks, white, ii. 338
Hands of enemies eaten, ii. 151, 152
Hanover, harvest customs in, i. 133, 135, 283
Hare, corn-spirit as, i. 279 _sq._
Hare-skin Indians, ii. 265
Hare’s tail, name given to last standing corn, i. 268
Hares not eaten, ii. 141
Harran, sacrifices offered by the heathen of, i. 261 _sq._
—— legend of Tammuz, i. 258
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