Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Childbirth, precautions taken with mother at, 180, 181; women tabooed at, 207, 208; knots untied at, 238; homoeopathic magic to facilitate, 239
Children, taboos observed by, 21, 22; buried to the neck as a rain-charm, 75; parents named after their, 248; sacrificed, 281, 293, 380, 431; blood of, used to knead a paste, 553
China, emperors of, 9; charms in, 35; geomancy in, 36; modes of compelling the rain-god to give rain in, 74; trees planted on graves in, 115; convulsions attributed to the action of demons in, 186; custom as to shadows at funerals in, 190; ceremony at the beginning of spring in, 468; popular superstitions in, 498; human scapegoats in, 566; expulsion of evils in, 567
Coins, from the eyes of corpses, 31; portraits of kings not stamped on, 193
Columbia, British, use of magical images to procure fish in, 18; taboos imposed on parents of twins in, 66; belief regarding a physician and his patient’s soul, 189; Indians’ dislike of telling their own names, 246; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 600; rites of initiation in, 699
Congo, recall of stray souls among the tribes, 184; conjuring spirits before drinking in the, 199; royal persons forbidden to touch the ground, 594; rites of initiation on the Lower, 697
Connaught, taboos observed by the ancient kings of, 173
Continence, required during search for sacred cactus, 23; practised before fertility ceremonies, 136; practised in order to make crops grow, 138; enjoined on people during rounds of sacred pontiff, 170; of priests, 170; on eve of period of taboo, 173; during war, 210, 211; after victory, 212; by hunters and fishers, 217; by workers in saltpans, 219; at brewing, 219; at house-building, 220; at making and repairing dams, 220; by lion-killers and bear-killers, 221, 222; at festival of first-fruits, 486
Corea, kings responsible for rain and crops, 87; offerings to souls of the dead in trees in, 115; king not to be touched, 224; means of inspiring courage in, 496; use of torches to ensure good crops in, 647
Corinthians make images of Dionysus out of a pine-tree, 387
