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
Calicut, rule of succession observed by the kings of, iv. 47 _sqq._, 206;
ceremonies at sowing in, ix. 235
California, the Digger Indians of, viii. 164
——, the Karok Indians of, vi. 47, viii. 255
——, the Maidu Indians of, i. 122, 357, xi. 295, 298
——, the Nishinam tribe of, iii. 338
California, the Pomos of, ix. 170 _sq._
——, the Senal Indians of, xi. 295
——, the Yuki Indians of, i. 133
Californian Indians, their notion as to whirlwinds, i. 331;
secrecy of personal names among the, iii. 326;
names of the dead not mentioned among the, iii. 352;
their custom as to meteors, iv. 62;
eat pine nuts, v. 278 _n._ 2;
their annual festivals of the dead, vi. 52 _sq._;
their notion that the owl is the guardian of the “California big tree,”
vi. 111 _n._ 1;
women’s work among the Indians of San Juan Capistrano, vii. 125;
their calendar, vii. 125 _sq._;
their custom of killing the sacred buzzard, viii. 169 _sqq._;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into animals, viii.
286 _sq._;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the, x. 41 _sqq._;
ordeals among the, x. 64
—— missions, the Spanish, viii. 171 _n._ 1
Caligula, his barges on the lake of Nemi, i. 5;
and the priest of Nemi, i. 11;
and King Agrippa, ix. 418
Callander, the parish of, Beltane fires in, x. 150 _sqq._;
Hallowe’en fires in, x. 231
Callaway, Rev. Henry, on chiefs as medicine-men, i. 350 _n._ 2;
on the worship of the dead among the Zulus, vi. 184 _sq._;
on the observation of the Pleiades by the Amazulu, vii. 316
Callias, the Eleusinian Torch-bearer, vii. 54, 73 _n._ 3
Callirrhoe, the springs of, in Moab, v. 214 _sqq._
Callo, a holy spirit among the Gallas, i. 396
Calmucks, race for bride among the, ii. 301 _sq._;
divine by shoulder-blades of sheep, iii. 229 _n._ 4
_See also_ Kalmucks
_Calotropis gigantea_, man married to, in Southern India, ii. 57 _n._ 4
—— _procera_, used in kindling fire by friction, ii. 209
Calpurnius Piso, L., on the wife of Vulcan, vi. 232 _sq._
Caltanisetta, in Sicily, violence done to St. Michael at, i. 300
Calves, unborn, sacrifice of, viii. 42;
burnt to stop disease in the herds, x. 301, 306.
_See also_ Calf
Calycadnus River, in Cilicia, v. 167 _n._ 2
Calymnos, a Greek island, superstition as to menstruous women in, x. 96
_sq._;
Midsummer fires in, x. 212
Camasene and Janus, vi. 235 _n._ 6
Cambaita, custom of religious suicide at, iv. 54
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