| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
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| Saxony, May or Whitsuntide trees in, 123; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 300; “carrying out Death” in, 309; Oats bride and bridegroom in, 409; fires to burn the witches in, 622 |
| Scandinavia, female descent of the kingship in, 155 |
| Scandinavian custom of the Yule Boar, 461 |
| Scapegoat, Jewish use of, 569; a material vehicle for expulsion of evils, 575 |
| Scapegoats, animals as, 540, 565, 568; birds as, 541; public, 562–577; divine animals as, 570, 576; divine men as, 571, 576; in general, 574 |
| ——, human, 542, 565, 569; in classical antiquity, 577–587 |
| Scheube, Dr. B., 507 |
| Schleswig, custom at threshing in, 431 |
| Schrenck, L. vons, 511 |
| Schuyler, E., 543 |
| Science, and magic, 48, 711; and religion, 712 |
| Scorpion’s bite, pain transferred to an ass, 544 |
| Scorpions, Isis and the, 364 |
| Scotland, magical images in, 56; witches raise wind in, 80; iron as a safeguard against fairies in, 226; witch burnt in, 243; harvest customs in, 341, 403, 406–408, 452; names given to last corn cut in, 403, 409, 480; saying as to the wren in, 536; witchcraft in, 542; worship of Grannus in, 611; Beltane fires in, 617–620; few traces of Midsummer fires in, 631; Hallowe’en fires in, 635; need-fire in, 639–641. See also Highlands |
| Scouvion, or Escouvion, in Belgium, 610 |
| Scrofula, 90, 203, 204 |
| Scylla, daughter of Nisus, 670 |
| Scythians, the, 87 |
| Sea Dyaks, 25, 239, 249, 531 |
| Sea-god, human sacrifice to, 579 |
| Seals, care taken of the bladders and bones of, 526 |
| Sealskins in sympathy with the tides, 35 |
| Seasons, magical and religious theories of the, 324 |
| Seb (Keb or Geb), Egyptian earth-god, father of Osiris, 362 |
| Secretiveness of the savage, 691 |
| Sedna, Esquimau goddess, 552 |
| Seed-corn, 420, 452, 461, 463, 469, 470, 666; -rice, 284; -time, annual expulsion of demons at, 557 |
| Segera, a sago magician of Kiwai, 379 |
| Seker (Sokari), title of Osiris, 375 |
| Selangor, rice-crop supposed to depend on the district officer of, 89; durian-trees threatened in, 113 |
| Seligman, Dr. C. G., 266, 270 |
| Semele, mother of Dionysus, 265, 389 |
| Seminole Indians of Florida, 486, 520 |
| Semites, the, 293 |
| Semitic Baal, 281; kings as hereditary deities, 333; personal names, indicating relationship to a deity, 333; worship of Adonis, 325 |
| Senal Indians of California, 707 |
| Sencis of Peru, the, 78 |
| Senegambia, Python clan in, 502; the mistletoe in, 660 |
| Serbia, rain-making ceremony in, 69; Midsummer fires in, 627; the Yule log in, 638; need-fire in, 640 |
| Serbian women’s charm to hoodwink their husbands, 32 |
| Serpents, in magic, 32; ceremonies observed after killing, 222; killing the sacred, 501; burnt alive, 655, 658 |
| Servius Tullius, Roman king, 152 |
| Set, or Typhon, brother of Osiris, 363, 365, 475 |
| Seven, the number in magical ceremonies, etc., 242, 280, 417, 610, 631 |
| Sex totems, 687–688 |
| Sexes, of plants, recognised by some savages and by the ancients, 114; influence of the, on vegetation, 135–139; danger apprehended from the relation of the, 700 |
| Sexual intercourse practised to make the crops and fruit grow, 135–136 |
| Seyf el-Mulook and the jinnee, story of, 674 |
| Shadow, the soul identified with the, 189–192 |
| Shadows, of people drawn out by ghosts, 190; animals injured through their, 190; of certain persons dangerous, 190, 207; of people built into foundations of edifices, 191 |
| Shakespeare on death at ebb tide, 35 |
| Shamans, 88, 683 |
| Shanghai, geomancy at, 36 |
| Shans of Burma, 77 |
| Sheba or Sabaea, kings of, 200 |
| Sheep, torn by wolf in homoeopathic magic, 32; used in purificatory ceremony, 214; black, sacrificed for rain, 72 |
| Shell, called the “old man,” 33 |
| Shenty, Egyptian cow-goddess, 375 |
| Shetland, witches in, 81 |
| Shilluk, the, 266, 294; their kings, 295 |
| Shoes, of priestess, 174; of boar’s skin worn by king at inauguration, 594 |
| Shooting star, superstition as to, 279 |
| Shrove Tuesday, customs on, 134, 302, 305, 317, 461, 614, 651, 656 |
| Shrovetide customs, 298; Bear, 306 |
| Shuswap Indians, 66, 190, 207 |
| Siam, kings of, 99, 224, 257, 593; objection to the king’s image on coins in, 193; mode of executing royal criminals in, 228; belief that a guardian spirit dwells in the head in, 230; ceremony at cutting a child’s hair in, 235; temporary kings in, 284, 289; annual expulsion of demons in, 559; human scapegoat in, 570 |
| Siamese monks, 112; story of the external soul, 669 |
| Siaoo, belief as to sylvan spirits in, 116 |
| Siberia, bear-festival in, 510; sable-hunters in, 525; external souls of shamans in, 683 |
| Sibyl, the, and the Golden Bough, 3 |
| Sibylline Books, the, 348 |
| Sicily, attempts to compel the saints to give rain in, 74, 75; gardens of Adonis in, 344; Good Friday ceremonies in, 345; Midsummer fires in, 631 |
| Sickness, homoeopathic magic for the cure of, 15; explained by the absence of the soul, 183; ascribed to possession by demons and cured by exorcism, 196, 547; cured or prevented by effigies, 492; transferred to things, 539, or people, 540, 544, or animals, 540, 544; bonfires a protection against, 610 |
| Sicknesses expelled in a ship, 563 |
| Sierra Leone, 174; custom of beating a king on the eve of his coronation in, 176 |
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