Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Tyrol, the, witches in, 234; disposal of loose hair in, 237; wedding-ring as amulet in, 243; customs at threshing in, 429; the last thresher in, 449, 456; “burning out the witches” in, 560, 622; Lenten fires in, 612; Midsummer fires in, 625; fernseed in, 705
Uganda, 208; priest inspired by tobacco smoke in, 95; taboos observed by father of twins in, 227; king’s brothers burnt in, 286; human scapegoats in, 543, 565; king of, 543, 565, 593
Ukraine, ceremony to fertilise the fields on St. George’s Day in the, 137
Vegetable and animal life associated in the primitive mind, 325
Vegetation, homoeopathic influence of persons on, 29; spirit of, 124, 125, 127–129, 131; influence of the sexes on, 135–139; men and women masquerading as the spirits of, 140; marriage of the powers of, 146; death and revival of the spirit of, 300, 315, 318–319; perhaps generalised from a tree-spirit, 315–316, 339; growth and decay of, 324, 385; decay and revival of, in the rites of Adonis, 337; gardens of Adonis charms to promote the growth of, 341, 342; Attis as a god of, 352; Osiris as a god of, 381, 385; decay and growth of, conceived as the death and resurrection of gods, 385; ancient deities of, as animals, 464–479; Mars a deity of, 578; spirit of, burnt in effigy, 651; reasons for burning a deity of, 651; leaf-clad representative of the spirit of, burnt, 652; view that victims of the Druids represented spirits of, 658
Wales, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; harvest customs in, 403; falling sickness transferred to fowls in, 545; Beltane fires in, 620; Midsummer fires in, 630, 646; Hallowe’en fires in, 635; mistletoe in, 661, 663
