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
Candy, sugar, in homoeopathic magic, i. 157
Canelos Indians of Ecuador, afraid of being photographed, iii. 97;
their belief in the transmigration of human souls into jaguars, viii.
285
Canicular year, a Sothic period, vi. 36 _n._ 2
Cannibal banquets of the ancient Mexicans, viii. 92, ix. 279 _n._ 1, 283,
298
—— feast, legendary, at the Boeotian Orchomenus, iv. 164
—— orgies among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 18 _sqq._
—— societies in ancient Greece and Africa, iv. 83;
among the Indians of North-West America, vii. 20 _sq._
—— Spirit among the Haida Indians, vii. 21
Cannibalism, in Australia, perhaps intended to ensure the reincarnation of
the dead, i. 106 _sq._;
at hair-cutting in Fiji, iii. 264;
in certain cases perhaps intended to form a blood-covenant with the
dead, viii. 156
Cannibals, taboos imposed on, among the Kwakiutl Indians, iii. 188 _sqq._;
a secret society of the Kwakiutl Indians, vii. 20
Cannons, toy, as regalia, i. 364
Canoe, fish offered to, iii. 195
Canoes, continence observed at building, iii. 202
Canopus, town in Egypt, the decree of, vi. 27, 34 _n._ 1, 37 _n._, 88 _n._
2
Canopus, star, observed by the aborigines of Victoria, vii. 308
—— and Sirius in Bushman lore, x. 333
Cantabrian coast of Spain, belief as to death at ebb-tide on the, i. 167
Cantabrians, mother-kin among the, ii. 285
Canton, the province of, the Hak-Ka in, ix. 144
——, violence done to the rain-god at, in time of drought or excessive
rain, i. 299
Canute, King of England, his marriage with Emma, ii. 282 _sq._
Capaneus and Evadne, v. 177 _n._ 3
Capart, Jean, on palettes found in Egyptian tombs, xi. 155 _n._ 3
Cape Bedford in Queensland, belief of the natives as to the birth of
children, v. 102
—— Coast Castle, on the Gold Coast, annual expulsion of demons at, ix. 132
_sq._
—— Padron, in Guinea, priestly king near, iii. 5
—— Vancouver, iii. 228, viii. 249 _n._ 1
—— York Peninsula in Queensland, extraction of teeth among the natives of,
i. 99, 100;
the Gudangs of, iii. 346, 359;
seclusion of girls at puberty among the natives of, x. 37, 38
Capena, the Porta, at Rome, i. 18
Caper-spurge (_Euphorbia lathyris_) burned on May Day as a protection
against witches, ix. 158 _sq._;
identified with mythical springwort, xi. 69
Capillary attraction in magic, i. 83
Capital of column, external soul in, xi. 156 _sq._
Capital punishment among some peoples originally a sacrifice, v. 290 _n._
2
Capitol at Rome, temple of Jupiter on the, ii. 174, 176, 184;
image of Jupiter on the, ii. 175;
built by Romulus, ii. 176;
Jupiter worshipped on the, ii. 361;
ceremonies at the rebuilding of the, vi. 244;
the oak of Jupiter on the, xi. 89
—— at Cirta, image of Jupiter on the, ii. 177
Capitoline hill, Jupiter on the, ii. 184;
hut of Romulus on the, ii. 200
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