The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)Frazer, James George
Religion
The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)
Frazer, James George
Magic; Mythology; Religion; Superstition
Anhouri, Egyptian god, the mummy of, iv. 4 _sq._
Animal, corn-spirit as an, vii. 270 _sqq._;
killing the divine, viii. 169 _sqq._;
worshipful, killed once a year and promenaded from door to door, viii.
322;
bewitched, or part of it, burnt to compel the witch to appear, x. 303,
305, 307 _sq._, 321 _sq._;
sickness transferred to, xi. 181;
and man, sympathetic relation between, xi. 272 _sq._
—— embodiments of the corn-spirit, on the, vii. 303 _sqq._
—— enemy of god originally identical with god, vii. 23, viii. 16 _sq._, 31
—— familiars of wizards and witches, xi. 196 _sq._, 201 _sq._
—— form, god killed in, vii. 22 _sq._
—— food, supposed acquisition of virtues or vices through, viii. 139
—— god, two types of the custom of killing the, viii. 312 _sq._
Animal masks worn by Egyptian kings and others, ii. 133, iv. 72, vii. 260
_sq._;
worn by mummers at Carnival, viii. 333
—— sacrament, types of, viii. 310 _sqq._
Animals, homoeopathic magic of, i. 150 _sqq._;
association of ideas common to the, i. 234;
rain-making by means of, i. 287 _sqq._;
spirits of plants in shape of, ii. 14;
injured through their shadows, iii. 81 _sq._;
propitiation of spirits of slain, iii. 190, 204 _sq._;
atonement for slain, iii. 207;
blood of, not allowed to fall on ground, iii. 247;
dangerous, not called by their proper names, iii. 396 _sqq._;
thought to understand human speech, iii. 398 _sq._, 400;
sacred to kings, iv. 82, 84 _sqq._;
transformations into, iv. 82 _sqq._, xi. 207;
sacrificed by being hanged, v. 289 _sq._, 292;
and plants, edible, savage lamentations for, vi. 43 _sq._;
dead kings and chiefs incarnate in, vi. 162, 163 _sq._, 173, 193;
sacrificed to prolong the life of kings, vi. 222;
torn to pieces and devoured raw in religious rites, vii. 17, 18, 19, 20
_sqq._;
regarded as unclean were originally sacred, viii. 24;
belief in the descent of men from, viii. 25;
spirits of ancestors in, viii. 123;
language of, acquired by eating serpent’s flesh, viii. 146;
resurrection of viii. 200 _sq._, 256 _sqq._;
and men, savages fail to distinguish accurately between, viii. 204
_sqq._;
wild, propitiation of, by hunters, viii. 204 _sqq._;
apologies offered by savages to animals for killing them, viii. 221
_sqq._;
bones of, not to be broken, viii. 258 _sq._;
bones of, not allowed to be gnawed by dogs, viii. 259;
savage faith in the immortality of, viii. 260 _sqq._;
transmigration of human souls into, viii. 285 _sqq._;
two forms of the worship of, viii. 311;
processions with sacred, viii. 316 _sqq._;
transference of evil to, ix. 31 _sqq._, 49 _sqq._;
as scapegoats, ix. 31 _sqq._, 190 _sqq._, 208 _sqq._, 216 _sq._;
guardian spirits of, ix. 98;
prayed to, ix. 236;
dances taught by, ix. 237;
imitated in dances, ix. 376, 377, 381, 382;
burnt alive as a sacrifice in England, Wales, and Scotland, x. 300
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