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
Carnarvonshire, the cutty black sow at Hallowe’en in, x. 240
Carniola, “Sawing the Old Woman” at Mid-Lent in, iv. 242
Carnival, dances at the, to make hemp grow tall, i. 137;
a sort of, at Fazoql on the Blue Nile, iv. 17;
burying the, iv. 209, 220 _sqq._;
the burial and resurrection of the, an expression of the death and
revival of vegetation, iv. 252;
swings taken down at, iv. 287;
at Rome in the rites of Attis, v. 273;
modern Thracian drama at the, vi. 99 _sq._, vii. 26 _sqq._, viii. 331
_sqq._;
similar masquerade in Bulgaria at, viii. 333 _sq._;
bell-ringing processions at the, ix. 247;
Senseless Thursday in, ix. 248;
in relation to the Saturnalia, ix. 312, 345 _sqq._;
effigy burnt at end of, x. 120;
wicker giants at the, xi. 35
—— and Purim, ix. 394
—— or Shrovetide Bear in Bohemia, viii. 325 _sq._
“—— (Shrovetide) Fool,” iv. 231
Carnmoor, in Mull, need-fire kindled on, x. 289 _sq._
Carnwath, in Cornwall, Midsummer fires at, x. 199
Carolina, Indians of, king’s son wounded among the, iv. 184 _sq._;
their fear of harming snakes, viii. 217
Caroline Islands, treatment of the navel-string in the, i. 184 _sq._;
Ponape in the, i. 401 _n._ 3, iii. 25, 259, 362;
Uap (Yap) in the, iii. 193, 227, 282, 290, 293, vi. 265, x. 36;
taboos on fishermen in the, iii. 193;
wizards in the, iii. 290;
traditionary origin of fire in the, xi. 295
Caron’s _Account of Japan_, iii. 4 _n._ 2
Carp clan of the Otawa Indians, viii. 225 _n._ 1
Carpathian Mountains, the Huzuls of the, i. 113, 137, 280, iii. 270, 314,
396, 397, viii. 43 _n._ 1, 275, ix. 32 _sq._, xi. 49;
Midsummer fires in the, x. 175;
need-fire in the, x. 281
Carpathus, fear of having one’s likeness taken in, iii. 100;
laying out of corpses in, iii. 313 _sq._
_See also_ Karpathos
Carpenter, son of, as a human god, i. 376
Carpentras in Provence, rain-making at, i. 307
Carpet-snakes, magical ceremony for the multiplication of, i. 90
Carpini, de Plano, on funeral customs of the Mongols, v. 293
Carrier Indians of North-Western America, their magic to snare martens, i.
110;
their contagious magic of footprints, i. 210;
their chastity before hunting, iii. 197;
confession of sins among the, iii. 215;
their belief in the reincarnation of the dead, iii. 367 _sq._;
succession to the soul among the, iv. 199;
their regard for the bones of martens and beavers, viii. 238 _sq._;
funeral custom of the, x. 11;
their dread and seclusion of menstruous women, x. 91 _sqq._;
their honorific totems, xi. 273 _sqq._
“Carrying out Death,” iv. 221, 233 _sqq._, 246 _sqq._, ix. 227 _sq._, 230,
252
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