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
—— of South Africa, ix. 11, 30;
their way of stopping a high wind, i. 321 _sq._;
their superstition as to shadows, iii. 87;
purified after battle, iii. 172, 174 _sq._;
their belief and custom as to falling stars, iv. 65;
date their new year by observation of the Pleiades, vii. 116, 315 _sq._;
woman’s share in agriculture among the, vii. 116;
transfer sickness from men to goats, ix. 31;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 30;
use of bull-roarers among the, xi. 229 _n._, 232
—— of the Zambesi region believe that human souls transmigrate after death
into animals, viii. 288 _sq._
Cages, girls at puberty confined in, x. 32 _sqq._, 44, 45
Caidu, a Tartar king, ii. 306
Caiem, the caliph, iv. 8
_Cailleach_ (Old Wife), name given to last corn cut, vii. 140 _sqq._, 164
_sqq._
—— _beal-tine_, the Beltane carline, x. 148
Caingua Indians of Paraguay, their fire customs, ii. 258 _sq._;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii.
285 _sq._
Cairns, cut hair buried in, iii. 274 _sq._;
to which every passer-by adds a stone, ix. 9 _sqq._;
near shrines of saints, ix. 21;
offerings at, ix. 26 _sqq._
_See also_ Heaps
Cairnshee, in Kincardineshire, Midsummer fires on, x. 206
Cairo, ceremony of cutting the dams at, vi. 38, 39 _sq._;
the old south gate of, ix. 63;
cure for toothache and headache at, ix. 63
Caithness, the cutter of the last sheaf called Winter in, vii. 142;
need-fire in, x. 290 _sqq._
Cajaboneros Indians of Central America, their period of abstinence before
sowing, ii. 105
_Cajanus Indicus_, pulse, cultivated by the Korwas, vii. 123
Cake called the Christmas Boar, vii. 302 _sq._;
with coin in it at Carnival, omens drawn from, viii. 332;
on Twelfth Night used to determine the King, ix. 313 _sqq._;
put on horn of ox, ix. 318 _sq._;
St. Michael’s, x. 149, 154 _n._ 3;
salt, divination by, x. 238 _sq._;
the Yule or Christmas, x. 257, 259, 261
Cakes rolled as a mode of divination on St. George’s Day, ii. 338;
in obscene shapes, vii. 62;
in human form, vii. 149;
special, baked at threshing, vii. 150;
of dough at the Thesmophoria, viii. 17 _sq._;
as substitutes for animal victims, viii. 25;
in the form of animals, viii. 95 _n._ 2;
sacrificial, baked of new barley or rice, viii. 120;
made at Christmas out of last sheaf in form of goats, rams, or boars,
viii. 328;
special, at New Year, ix. 149 _sq._;
with twelve knobs offered to Cronus and other deities, ix. 351, 351 _n._
3;
Hallowe’en, x. 238, 241, 245;
Beltane, x. 148 _sq._, 150, 152, 153, 154, 155;
divination by, x. 242, 243
Calabar, fetish king at, iii. 22 _sq._;
soul of chief in sacred grove at, xi. 161;
negroes of, their belief in external or bush souls lodged in animals,
xi. 204 _sqq._, 220, 222 _n._ 5;
the fattening-house for girls in, xi. 259
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