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
Ceram, i. 125;
treatment of the navel-string in, i. 187;
rain-making in, i. 248;
Alfoors of, their veneration for their high-priest, i. 400;
expiation for unchastity in, ii. 109 _n._ 1;
rule as to girl scratching herself in, iii. 146 _n._ 1;
fear of women’s blood in, iii. 251;
men do not crop their hair in, iii. 260;
division of agricultural work between the sexes in, vii. 124;
ceremony at eating the new rice in, viii. 54;
offerings of first-fruits to ancestors in, viii. 123;
kinship of men with crocodiles in, viii. 212;
sicknesses expelled in a ship from, ix. 185;
sickness transferred to branches in, ix. 186;
seclusion of girls at puberty in, x. 36;
belief that strength of young people is in their hair in, xi. 158;
rites of initiation to the Kakian association in, xi. 249 _sqq._
Ceramicus, the, at Athens, graves of warriors in, iv. 96
Cereal deity, viii. 52, 83
Cereals cultivated in ancient Egypt, vi. 30;
in Europe, antiquity of the cultivation of, vii. 79;
cultivated by the early Aryans, vii. 132
Ceremonial purity observed in war, iii. 157.
_See_ Purity, Chastity, Continence
Ceremonies at cutting down haunted trees, ii. 34 _sqq._;
at the reception of strangers, iii. 102 _sqq._;
at entering a strange land, iii. 109 _sqq._;
after slaughter of panthers, lions, bears, serpents, etc., iii. 219
_sqq._;
at haircutting, iii. 264 _sqq._
——, initiatory, of Central Australian aborigines, i. 92 _sqq._
——, magical, for the multiplication of totems, i. 85 _sqq._;
for the regulation of the seasons, v. 3 _sqq._;
to ensure fertility of women, x. 23 _sq._, 31
——, purificatory, on return from a journey, iii. 111 _sqq._
Ceremony of the Horse at rice-harvest among the Garos, viii. 337 _sqq._
Ceres, names of fathers and daughters tabooed during the rites of, iii.
337;
married to Orcus, vi. 231;
corn the gift of, vii. 42;
the, in France, vii. 135;
festival of, vii. 297 _n._ 5;
Roman sacrifices to, viii. 133;
first ears of corn sacrificed to, viii. 133
_Cervulus muntjac_, species of deer, supposed to house the soul of an
ancestor, viii. 294
_Cervus equinus_, a species of deer, claimed as relations by Malanaus in
Borneo, viii. 294
Cetchwayo, king of Zululand, iii. 377
Cetraro in Calabria, Easter custom at, x. 123
Ceylon, _deega_ and _beena_ marriage in, ii. 271 _n._ 1, vi. 215;
custom of tying a knot on a threshing-floor in, iii. 308 _sq._;
sanctity of the threshing-floor in, viii. 110 _n._ 4;
fear of demons in, ix. 94 _sq._;
the king of, and his external soul, xi. 102
Chaco, the Gran, Lengua Indians of, i. 313, 330, 359, iii. 38, 357, iv.
11, 63, viii. 245;
the Guaycurus of, iii. 357, vii. 309;
the Matacos of, x. 58, 59;
the Tobas of, x. 59;
marriage custom of Indians of, x. 75;
Indians of, their treatment of a wound, x. 98 _n._ 1
——, the Paraguayan, ix. 78, x. 56, 75 _n._ 2
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