Author:James George Frazer

James George Frazer
(1854–1941)

James George Frazer

Works

• Totemism (1887)
• The Golden Bough
  • First edition (1890 – two volumes) subtitled A Study in Comparative Religion (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
  • Second edition (1900 – three volumes) subtitled A Study in Magic and Religion (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3)
  • Third edition (1906–1915 – twelve volumes)
    • Part 1: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings (two volumes) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
    • Part 2: Taboo and the Perils of the Soul (1911) (transcription project)
    • Part 3: The Dying God (1911) (transcription project)
    • Part 4: Adonis Attis Osiris (1906 – two volumes) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
    • Part 5: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (1912 – two volumes) (transcription volumes: 1, 2)
    • Part 6: The Scapegoat (1913) (transcription project)
    • Part 7: Balder the Beautiful (1913 – two volumes) (transcription project)
    • Volume 12: Bibliography and General Index (1915) (start transcription)

• • Abridged edition (1922 – one volume) (transcription project)
• Pausanias's Description of Greece (translation and commentary) (1897) (external scan)
• Psyche's Task (1909)
• Totemism and Exogamy (1910)
• The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead (3 volumes) (1913-24)
• Folk-lore in the Old Testament (1918)
• Apollodorus: the Library (1921)

Contributions to EB9

• "Taboo," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
• "Theseus," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
• "Thesmophoria," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)
• "Totemism," in Encyclopædia Britannica, Ninth Edition (23) (1888)

Contributions to EB1911

• "Penates," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praefect," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praeneste," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Praetor," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Proserpine," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Province," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Saturn (god)," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)
• "Thesmophoria," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911) (in part)

Contributions to Folk-Lore

• "A Witch's Ladder" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 5 (1887), pp. 81–83
• "A South African Red Riding Hood" in The Folk-Lore Journal, 7 (1889), pp. 167–168
• "Some Popular Superstitions of the Ancients" in Folk-Lore, 1 (1890), pp. 145–171
• "Howitt and Fison" in Folk-Lore, 20 (1909), pp. 144–180
• "The Cursing of Venezelos" in Folk-Lore, 28 (1917), pp. 133–140
• "The Killing of the Khazar Kings" in Folk-Lore, 28 (1917), pp. 382–407
• "Kentish Folk-Lore" in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), p. 317
• "Garo Marriages" in Folk-Lore, 32 (1921), pp. 202–209

Articles in Popular Science Monthly

• "The Primitive Ghost and his Relations" in Popular Science Monthly, 27 (September 1885)

Works about Frazer

• "Frazer, James George, LL.D., D.C.L.," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)

Reviews on Folk-Lore

• "Folk-lore in the Old Testament" by Moses Gaster in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 71–76
• "The Interpretation of Survivals" by William Crooke in Folk-Lore, 30 (1919), pp. 132–133
• "Folk-Lore in the Old Testament" by Thomas Nelson Annandale in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), pp. 142–144
• "Review/Sir Roger de Coverley and other Literary Pieces" by James Drummond Anderson in Folk-Lore, 31 (1920), p. 257