The Golden Bough

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    2 J. Owen Dorsey, “ Omaha Sociology,” Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1884), p. 241 ; 2117., “A Study of Siouan Cults,” Eleventh Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)
    By James Frazer

    99-102; and among the Omahas, see J. Owen Dorsey, “Omaha Sociology,” Third Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1884), pp. 342-346. I have dealt more fully with the ritual in Totemism and Exogamy, iii. 462 sqq.

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    Ed. V. Rose and H. Muller-Striibing. Leipsic, 1 67. *Vizyenos, G. M., in Bpoucuc-P1 'E1re1-qpls. Published at Athens in 1897. Voeltzkow, A., “ Vom Morondava. zum Mangoky, Reiseskizzen aus WestMadagascar,” in Zeitsr/zrz_fi' der ...

  • The Golden Bough: Volume 10
    By James George Frazer

    Near his house was a rath or old fort with a fine grass bank running round it. One Hallowe'en, when the darkness was falling, Guleesh went to the rath and stood on a gray old flag. The night was calm and still; there was not a breath of ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)
    By James Frazer

    A K Q (6 O & L Q. Back 85 Pausanias, ii. 35. 1; Scholiast on Aristophanes, Acharn. 146; Etymologicum Magnum, S. V. A TI O U O Ú O l O. , p. 118. 54 Sqq.; Suidas, s. v.v. A 7T 0 t O ( 0 l O. and H & A. O. v O. (Y l Ó Cy A l Ó v U O O v ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    641), G. Perrot et Ch. Chipiez (Histaire tie l'/lrt dam' l'A1ztz'guz'te', iv. 727), and P. Jensen (Hittiter und Armenier, Strasburg, 1898, p. 145). 2 Ramsay and Hogarth, “Pre-Hellenic Monuments of Cappadocia,” Rerueil de T razlaux ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 1 of 2)
    By James Frazer

    Back 171 Labat, Relation historique de l'Ethiopie Occidentale, ii. 172-176. Back 172 Schol. on Apollonius Rhod. ii. 1248. K Q i Ho 6 Ó (J o O S $ 6 v (US 7I & O i t (i) v Ó & O Hó v to Ü TI O O p n 6 6 (Ug t d \, t O. Eli v O. l r & O ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 03 of 12)
    By James Frazer

    48; Annali dell' Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica, 1847, pl. x.; Archaeologische Zeitung, 1860, pll. cxxxvii. cxxxviii.; L. Stephani, in Compte rendu de la Commission archéologique (St. Petersburg), 1863, pp. 271 sq. Back ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    When the German Hans Stade was a captive in a cannibal tribe of Brazilian Indians, it happened that, shortly before a prisoner was to be eaten, a great wind arose and blew away part of the roofs of the huts. The savages were angry with ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion
    By James George Frazer

    of Mars on which the ceremony took place lay beside the Tiber, and formed part of the king's domain down to the ... for the two ideas melt into each other, as we see in customs like the Harvest-May. , CHAPTER L EATING THE GOD § 1.

  • The Golden Bough
    By Sir James George Frazer

    A Malay who has baited a trap for crocodiles, and is awaiting results, is careful in eating his curry always to begin by swallowing three lumps of rice successively; for this helps the bait to slide more easily down the crocodile's ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    49, 331 Hersilia, a Sabine goddess, ii. 193 n.1 Heyne, C. (3., ii. 329 n.1 Hidatsa Indians, ii. 12 Hierapolis, i. ... 313 Holland, Whitsuntide customs in, ii. 104 Holy Basil, ii. 26 Homoeopathic taboos, i. 116 ; magic for the making of ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, X. Part 7. Balder the Beautiful, in Two Volumes
    By James George Frazer

    This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by Macmillan and Co., Ltd. in London, 1923.

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    Such was the custom at Worthen in the early part of the nineteenth century.4 In Herefordshire the Christmas feast “lasted for twelve days, and no work was 1 John Aubrey, Romaine: of Gentilisme and fudaisnze (London, 1881), P. 25'County ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    See J. Nicolson, in The I/Vorld': Work and Play, February, 1906, pp. 28 3 rqq. For further information relating to the ceremony I am indebted to the kindness of Sheriff - Substitute David J. Mackenzie (formerly of Lerwick, ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 09 of 12)
    By James Frazer

    For further information relating to the ceremony I am indebted to the kindness of Sheriff-Substitute David J. Mackenzie (formerly of Lerwick, now of Kilmarnock). According to one of his correspondents, the Rev. Dr. J. Willcock of ...

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 08 of 12)
    By James Frazer

    255; John Mackenzie, Ten Years north of the Orange River (Edinburgh, 1871), p. 135 note. See further Totemism and Exogamy, ii. 372. Back 110 J. Mackenzie, l. c. Back 111 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey, “Omaha Sociology,” Third Annual Report of the ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    It may be, as Professor W. Ridgeway holds, that this dramatic marriage of the god and goddess was an innovation foisted into the Eleusinian Mysteries in that great welter of religions which followed the meeting of the East and the West ...

  • The Golden Bough
    By James George Frazer

    The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes.

  • The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion
    By James George Frazer

    Frazer's innovative and controversial 1890 examination of classical religion, and of the place of human sacrifice in cultures worldwide.