The golden bough : a study in comparative religion
Frazer's groundbreaking study of myth and magic was among the first works of trans-historical anthropology, examining the world-wide beliefs in magic held by ancient peoples, and illuminating the ancient practices of nature worship, the myths of the dying god, and the divine sacrifice of kings
Print Book, English, 2013
Topbooks, [Place of publication not identified], 2013
439 pages ; 28 cm
9781482088274, 1482088274
995047900
Ch. 1. The king of the wood
Ch. 2. Priestly kings
Ch. 3. Sympathetic magic
Ch. 4. Magic and religion
Ch. 5. The magical control of the weather
Ch. 6. Magicians as kings
Ch. 7. Incarnate human gods
Ch. 8. Departmental kings of nature
Ch. 9. The worship of trees
Ch. 10. Relics of tree worship in modern Europe
Ch. 11. The influence of the sexes on vegetation
Ch. 12. The sacret marriage
Ch. 13. The kings of Rome and Alba
Ch. 14. Succession to the kingdom in ancient Latium
Ch. 15. The worship of the oak
Ch. 16. Dianus and Diana
Ch. 17. The burden of royalty
Ch. 18. The perils of the oul
Ch. 19. Tabooed acts
Ch. 20. Tabooed persons
Ch. 21. Tabooed things
Ch. 22. Tabooed words
Ch. 23. Our debt to the savage
Ch. 24. The killing of the divine king
Ch. 25. Temporary kings
Ch. 26. Sacrifice of the king's son
Ch. 27. Succession to the soul
Ch. 28. The killing of the tree-spirit
Ch. 29. The myth of Adonis
Ch. 30. Adonis in Syria
Ch. 31. Adonis in Cyprus
Ch. 32. The ritual of Adonis
Ch. 33. The gardens of Adonis
Ch. 34. The myth and ritual of Attis
Ch. 35. Attis as a god of vegetation
Ch. 36. Human representatives of Attis
Ch. 37. Oriental religions in the West
Ch. 38. The ritual of Osiris
Ch. 40. The nature of Osiris
Ch. 41. Isis
Ch. 42. Osiris and the sun
Ch. 43. Dionysus
Ch. 44. Demeter and Persephone
Ch. 45. Corn-mother and corn-maiden in N. Europe
Ch. 46. Corn-mother in many lands
Ch. 47. Lityerses
Ch. 48. The corn-spirit as an animal
Ch. 49. Ancient deities of vegetation as animals
Ch. 50. Eating the god
Ch. 51. Homeopathic magic of a flesh diet
Ch. 52. Killing the divine animal
Ch. 53. The propitiation of wild animals by hunters
Ch. 54. Types of animal sacrament
Ch. 55. The transference of evil
Ch. 56. The public expulsion of evils
Ch. 57. Public scapegoates
Ch. 58. Human scapegoates in classical antiquity
Ch. 59. Killing the god in Mexico
Ch. 60. Between heaven and earth
Ch. 61. The myth of balder
Ch. 62. The fire-festivals of Europe
Ch. 63. The interpreetation of the fire-festivals
Ch. 64. The burning of human being in the fires
Ch. 65. Balder and the mistletoe
Ch. 66. The external soul in folk-tales
Ch. 67. The external soul in folk-custom
Ch. 68. The golden bough
Ch. 69. Farewell to Nemi