The Golden Bough/Subject Index
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Chapter 1. The King of the Wood
- 1. The Principles of Magic
- 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
- 3. Contagious Magic
- 4. The Magician's Progress
Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather
- 1. The Public Magician
- 2. The Magical Control of Rain
- 3. The Magical Control of the Sun
- 4. The Magical Control of the Wind
Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods
Chapter 8. Departmental Kings of Nature
Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees
Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
Chapter 11. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage
Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba
Chapter 14. Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak
Chapter 17. The Burden of Royalty
Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul
- 1. The Soul as a Mannikin
- 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul
- 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection
- 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers
- 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking
- 3. Taboos on Showing the Face
- 4. Taboos on Quitting the House
- 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over
- 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed
- 2. Mourners tabooed
- 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth
- 4. Warriors tabooed
- 5. Manslayers tabooed
- 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed
- 1. The Meaning of Taboo
- 2. Iron tabooed
- 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed
- 4. Blood tabooed
- 5. The Head tabooed
- 6. Hair tabooed
- 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting
- 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails
- 9. Spittle tabooed
- 10. Foods tabooed
- 11. Knots and Rings tabooed
- 1. Personal Names tabooed
- 2. Names of Relations tabooed
- 3. Names of the Dead tabooed
- 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed
- 5. Names of Gods tabooed
Chapter 23. Our Debt to the Savage
Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King
- 1. The Mortality of the Gods
- 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails
- 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
Chapter 27. Succession to the Soul
Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
- 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers
- 2. Burying the Carnival
- 3. Carrying out Death
- 4. Bringing in Summer
- 5. Battle of Summer and Winter
- 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko
- 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation
- 8. Analogous Rites in India
- 9. The Magic Spring
Chapter 29. The Myth of Adonis
Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis
Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis
Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
Chapter 35. Attis as a God of Vegetation
Chapter 36. Human Representatives of Attis
Chapter 37. Oriental Religions in the West
Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris
Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris
Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris
- 1. Osiris a Corn-god
- 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit
- 3. Osiris a God of Fertility
- 4. Osiris a God of the Dead
Chapter 42. Osiris and the Sun
Chapter 44. Demeter and Persephone
Chapter 45. Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in N. Europe
Chapter 46. Corn-Mother in Many Lands
- 1. The Corn-mother in America
- 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies
- 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings
- 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter
- 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers
- 2. Killing the Corn-spirit
- 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops
- 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives
Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
- 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
- 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog
- 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock
- 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare
- 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat
- 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat
- 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox
- 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare
- 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow)
- 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
- 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull
- 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse
- 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig
- 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull
- 5. Virbius and the Horse
Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal
- 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard
- 2. Killing the Sacred Ram
- 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent
- 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles
- 5. Killing the Sacred Bear
Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament
Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil
- 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects
- 2. The Transference to Animals
- 3. The Transference to Men
- 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe
Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils
- 1. The Omnipresence of Demons
- 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils
- 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils
- 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils
- 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
- 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
- 4. On Scapegoats in General
Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
- 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome
- 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece
- 3. The Roman Saturnalia
Chapter 59. Killing the God in Mexico
Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth
- 1. Not to touch the Earth
- 2. Not to see the Sun
- 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
- 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
Chapter 61. The Myth of Balder
Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
- 1. The Fire-festivals in general
- 2. The Lenten Fires
- 3. The Easter Fires
- 4. The Beltane Fires
- 5. The Midsummer Fires
- 6. The Hallowe'en Fires
- 7. The Midwinter Fires
- 8. The Need-fire
Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
- 1. On the Fire-festivals in general
- 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals
- 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals
Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe
Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
- 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things
- 2. The External Soul in Plants
- 3. The External Soul in Animals
- 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection
