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
_Kashim_, ii. 247
Kaua Indians, i. 111
Kavirondo, ii. 26
Kayans or Bahaus, the, of central Borneo, i. 92 _sqq._, 107, 109, 111,
234, 314, ii. 54;
their ceremonies in connexion with rice, 184 _sqq._;
their custom as to eating deer, ii. 144;
their belief in transmigration, 293
—— of the Mahakam river, i. 186
—— of the Mendalam river, i. 97, 98
Kei Islands, ii. 123
Kekchis of Guatemala, ii. 241
_Kelah_, soul, i. 189
_Kemping_, i. 152
Kent, harvest custom in, i. 153
Kenyahs, the, of Borneo, i. 314
Key of the field, i. 226
Khön-ma, a Tibetan goddess, ii. 96
Khonds or Kandhs, human sacrifices for crops among the, i. 245 _sqq._
Kid, surname of Dionysus, i. 17
Kikuyu, i. 317
Killing a god in the form of an animal, i. 22 _sq._;
two types of the custom of, ii. 312 _sq._
—— the corn-spirit, i. 216 _sqq._
—— the divine animal, ii. 169 _sqq._
Kimbunda, the, of West Africa, ii. 152
King, title of Carnival mummer, i. 28 _sq._;
eats of new fruits before his people, ii. 63, 70;
first-fruits presented to the, 109, 116, 122;
so called, at Carcassone, 320 _sq._
—— of the Calf, i. 290
—— of the harvesters, i. 294
—— of the Rice, i. 197
King’s son sacrificed for his father, i. 13, 24 _sq._
Kings, trace of custom of slaying them annually, i. 254 _sq._;
turned at death into lions, ii. 288
Kings’ wives turned at death into leopards, ii. 288
Kingsmill Islands, ii. 127
Kinross, harvest custom in, i. 227
Kinship of men with crocodiles, ii. 212 _sq._, 214 _sq._;
of men with tigers, 216
_Kirn_ or _kern_, last corn cut, i. 151, 152 _sqq._;
name of the harvest-supper, 158
—— -baby, i. 151, 153
—— -doll, i. 151, 153, 154
—— -supper, i. 154
Kiwaii, i. 106
Kiziba, district of Central Africa, i. 118, ii. 219
_Klöppel_ (mallet), at threshing, i. 148
Kobeua Indians, the, i. 111, ii. 164
Kochs of Assam, ii. 116
Kon-Meney, a tribe of Cochin China, ii. 291
_Koragia_ at Mantinea, i. 46 _n._ 2
_Kore_, title of Persephone, i. 208
Koryak, their ceremonies at killing bears and wolves, ii. 223;
their ceremonies at the slaughter of whales, 232 _sqq._;
their treatment of a slain fox, 244
Kothluwalawa, a sacred lake, ii. 179
Krooben, a malevolent spirit, ii. 100
Kruyt, A. C., i. 182 _sq._
Kshetrpal, a Himalayan deity, ii. 117
Kudulu, a hill tribe of India, i. 244
_Kuker_ and _Kukerica_, ii. 332, 333, 334
Κυκεών, i. 161 _n._ 4
Kukis, the, ii. 155 _n._ 4
Kull Gossaih, an Indian goddess, ii. 118
Kwakiutl Indians, i. 20, ii. 220, 250
La Ciotat, near Marseilles, hunting the wren at, ii. 321
Ladakh, ii. 117
Lagos, human sacrifice at, i. 239
Lake-dwellers of Europe, i. 132
Lamb killed sacramentally, ii. 314 _sq._
Lame, woman who pretends to be, ii. 254
—— Goat, the, i. 284
Lamentations, pretended, for insects which destroy the crops, ii. 279
_sq._
Lampsacus, coin of, i. 44
Land cleared for cultivation by men, i. 113 _sq._, 117 _sqq._
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