Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, 289 |
| Abbot of Unreason, 586 |
| Abchases of the Caucasus, 534 |
| Abduction of souls by demons, 186 |
| Abeokuta, the Alake of, 295 |
| Abipones of Paraguay, 254 |
| Abonsam, an evil spirit, 555 |
| Abruzzi, the Carnival in the, 303 |
| Abscesses, cure for, 539 |
| Absence and recall of the soul, 180 |
| Abstinence, 136, 138 |
| Abydos, 366; specially associated with Osiris, 367 |
| Abyssinia, rain-making in, 66; rain-making priests on the borders of, 107 |
| Acagchemem tribe of California, 499 |
| Acaill, Book of, 273 |
| Acosta, J. de, 587 |
| Acts, tabooed, 194–202 |
| Adam of Bremen, 160 |
| Adon, a Semitic title, 325 |
| Adonis, and Aphrodite (Venus), 7, 8, 328; the myth of, 324–327; in Syria, 327–329; in Cyprus, 329–335; ritual of, 335–341; the gardens of, 341–347; in relation to the pig, 471 |
| Adonis, the river, 328, 336 |
| Adoption, pretence of birth at, 14 |
| Adultery of wife thought to spoil the luck of absent husband, 23, 24 |
| Aegira, priestess of Earth at, 94 |
| Aegis, Athena and the, 477 |
| Aeneas, and the Golden Bough, 3, 163, 703, 706, 707; his vision of the glories of Rome, 149 |
| Aeolus, King of the Winds, 81 |
| Aesculapius, 5, 111, 301 |
| Afghanistan, ceremony at the reception of strangers in, 196 |
| Africa, magicians, especially rain-makers, as chiefs and kings in, 84–86; human gods in, 98; rules of life or taboos observed by kings in, 169–172; reluctance of people to tell their own names in, 247; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 595; dread and seclusion of menstruous women in, 604; birth-trees in, 681 |
| Africa, British Central, heart of lion eaten to make eater brave in, 495 |
| ——, East, seclusion and purification of manslayers in, 214; infanticide in, 293; propitiation of dead lions in, 522 |
| Africa, North, charms to render bridegroom impotent in, 241; Midsummer fires in, 631 |
| ——, South, rat’s hair as a charm in, 31; continence in war in, 211; seclusion of man-slayers in, 214; disposal of cut hair and nails in, 235; magic use of spittle in, 237; personal names tabooed in, 247; rites of initiation in, 497; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 595; dread of menstruous women in, 604; story of the external soul in, 677 |
| ——, West, magical functions of chiefs in, 85; reverence for silk-cotton trees in, 112; kings forced to accept office in, 176; fetish kings in, 177; traps set for souls in, 187; purification after a journey in, 197; custom as to blood shed on the ground, 229; rain-charms, 234; negroes of, 236; human sacrifices in, 433, 570; propitiation of dead leopard in, 523; the external soul in, 684; ritual of death and resurrection in, 697 |
| Afterbirth, contagious magic of, 39–41 |
| Agar Dinka, the, 270 |
| Agaric, superstitions as to, 618 |
| Agdestis, a man-monster, 349 |
| Age of magic, 55, 56 |
| Agni, Indian fire-god, 708 |
| Agricultural year, expulsion of demons timed to coincide with seasons of the, 575 |
| Agrionia, festival at Orchomenus, 291 |
| Agu, Mount, in Togo, wind-fetish on, 81; fetish priest on, 169 |
| Ague, cure for, 545, 546 |
| Aht of Nootka Indians, 599 |
| Ainos, 481, 496, 515, 528, 530, 532; of Japan, 252, 505, 506, 660; of Saghalien, 20, 509 |
| Akikuyu of British East Africa, 145, 604 |
| Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp, Roman version of, 671 |
| Alake, the, of Abeokuta, 295 |
| Alaska, respect of hunters for dead sables and bears in, 525; expulsion of evils in, 555; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 600 |
| Alba Longa, 148; kings of, 149 |
| Alban dynasty, 149; hills, 148; lake, 149; mountain, 149, 150, 167 |