In conclusion it is my duty as well as pleasure to thank my publishers, Messrs. Macmillan & Company, for the never-failing confidence, courtesy, and liberality with which they have treated me during the many years in which _The Golden Bough_ has been in progress. From first to last they have laid me under no restrictions whatever, but have left me perfectly free to plan and execute the work on the scale and in the manner I judged best. Their patience has been inexhaustible and their courage in facing the pecuniary risks unwavering. My printers also, Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, have done their part to my entire satisfaction; they have promptly responded to every call I have made on them for increased speed, and with regard to accuracy I will only say that in the scrutiny to which I have subjected the book for the purpose of the Index I have detected many errors of my own, but few or none of theirs. Publishers and printers can do much to help or hinder an author’s work. Mine have done everything that could be done to render my labours as light and as pleasant as possible. I thank them sincerely and gratefully for their help, and I reflect with pleasure on the relations of unbroken cordiality which have existed between us for more than a quarter of a century. J. G. Frazer. 1 BRICK COURT, TEMPLE, _25th January 1915_. BIBLIOGRAPHY _N.B._—In the following list an asterisk prefixed to the title of a work signifies that the work in question has not been seen by me (J. G. Frazer), and is known to me only by name or in quotations. Works not marked by an asterisk have been consulted in the originals. “A Far-off Greek Island,” in _Blackwood’s Magazine_, February 1886. “A Japanese Fire-walk,” in _American Anthropologist_, New Series, v. (1903). Abbott, G. F., _Macedonian Folk-lore_. Cambridge, 1903. Abeghian, Manuk, _Der armenische Volksglaube_. Leipsic, 1899. Abel, E., _Orphica_. Leipsic and Prague, 1885. Abēla, Eijūb, “Beiträge zur Kenntniss abergläubischer Gebräuche in Syrien,” in _Zeitschrift des deutschen Palaestina-Vereins_, vii. (1884). * Abelas, _Malta illustrata_, Cintar’s Supplements, quoted by R. Wünsch, _Das Frühlingsfest der Insel Malta_. Leipsic, 1902. Abercromby, Hon. J., in _Folk-lore_, ii. (1891). _The Pre- and Proto-historic Finns._ London, 1898. _Abhandlungen der historischen Classe der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften._ _Abhandlungen der historisch-philologischen Classe der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen._ _Abhandlungen der Königlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Berlin._ _Abhandlungen der Königlichen Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften._ _Abhandlungen der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen._ _Abhandlungen der Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften._