Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Fumigation, with laurel, 95; of flocks, 478; with juniper and rue, 560; of fruit-trees and nets, 641; of crops, 645 |
| Funeral customs, 185, 190, 227, 542; rites, 367, 375 |
| Gaboon, theory of the external soul in the, 684 |
| Gabriel, the archangel, 13, 241 |
| Galela, dread of menstruous women in, 604 |
| Galelareese of Halmahera, 19, 29–31 |
| Galicia, harvest customs in, 451 |
| Gallas, 98, 118; kings of the, 10 |
| Galli, the emasculated priests of Attis, 348 |
| Gamesa, the image of, 482 |
| Gardens of Adonis, 341–347 |
| Garos of Assam, 72, 568 |
| Gascon peasants, their belief in the magical power of priests, 54 |
| Gatschet, A. S., 255 |
| Gaul, ancient, human sacrifices in, 653; the mistletoe in, 659 |
| Gauri, harvest goddess, 420 |
| Gayos of Sumatra, 141 |
| Gazelle Peninsula, 251; the Ingniet society in the, 680 |
| Geomancy in China, 36 |
| Germany, contagious magic in, 39, 42, 45; worship of women in ancient, 97; treeworship in, 110; Harvest-May in, 118; use of May trees in, 119; Midsummer trees in, 122; races at Whitsuntide in, 124; worship of the oak in, 160; belief as to the escape of the soul in, 182; superstition as to cut hair in, 234; the Cornmother in, 399; the Old Woman in, 400; names given to the last sheaf in, 401; harvest customs, 402, 408, 427, 449, 451, 453, 454, 458–460; the Corn-spirit in, 448; the harvest cock in, 451, 479; pigs’ bones in connection with sowing in, 461; Lenten fires in, 612; Easter fires in, 614; Midsummer fires in, 623; the Yule log in, 637; need-fire in, 641; mistletoe in, 662, 702; oak-wood for cottage fires at Midsummer in, 665; stories of the external soul in, 672; birth-trees in, 682 |
| Gerontocracy in Australia, 83 |
| Getae, human god among the, 97 |
| Ghansyam Deo, a deity of the Gonds, 571 |
| Ghosts, 84, 185, 190, 207, 216, 226, 253, 491, 551; of the slain, 212–215, 227; of animals, dread of, 223, 520–524, 526 |
| Giant who had no heart in his body, stories of the 668, 673; mythical, supposed to kill and resuscitate lads at initiation, 695 |
| Giants, wicker-work, 654, 655 |
| Giddiness, cure for, 545 |
| Gilyaks of the Amoor, 510–514, 517, 530 |
| Gingiro, king of, 270 |
| Gippsland blacks, 248 |
| Girl, annually sacrificed to cedar tree, 112; sacrificed to a crocodile, 145; sacrificed for the crops, 432; and boy, need-fire kindled by, 640 |
| Girls, married to nets, 144; used in rainmaking, 210; seclusion of, at puberty, 595–607 |
| Glory, the Hand of, 30 |
| Gnabaia, an Australian spirit, 693 |
| Goajiros of Colombia, 252 |
| Goat, blood of, sucked by priest as means of inspiration, 94; sacrificed, 356, 391, 436; in relation to Dionysus, 390, 464; cornspirit as, 454; last sheaf in form of a, 454; killed on harvest-field, 455; effigy of a, 456; sacred animal of a Bushman tribe, 474; relation of, to Athena, 477; evils transferred to, 540; as scapegoat, 565 |
| God, savage ideas of, 92; the killing and resurrection of a, 301, 538; the Dying and Reviving, 386; killed in animal form, 391; the animal enemy of, originally identical with the god, 391, 469, 475; eating the, 479–494, 498; dying, as scapegoat, 539, 576; killing of the, in Mexico, 587–592. See also Gods |
| God-man, a source of danger, 202 |
| Goddesses, of fertility served by eunuch priests, 349; personated by women, 589 |
| Gods, appeal to the pity of, as a rain-charm, 75; incarnate human, 91–106, 162; conception of, slowly evolved, 91; and goddesses, dramatic weddings of, 140; the marriage of the, 142–145; created by men in their own likeness, 260; their names tabooed, 260–262; mortality of the, 264–265; death and resurrection of, 385–386, 388; distinguished from spirits, 411 |
| Gold Coast, negroes of the, 118; expulsion of demons on the, 550, 554, 555 |
| Golden Bough, 3, 593, 701–711 |
| ——Fleece, ram with, 290 |
| Goldi, bear-festivals of the, 514 |
| Goliath, straw man stabbed at Whitsuntide, 133 |
| Gonds of India, the, 433, 571 |
| Good Friday, ceremony in Greek churches on, 345; expulsion of witches on, 560 |
| Gorillas, lives of persons bound up with those of, 685 |
| Gossips of St. John, 344 |
| Gouri, Indian goddess of fertility, 343 |
| Gout, remedy for, 196; transferred to trees, 546 |
| Gran Chaco, Indians of, 182, 601 |
| Granada, youthful rulers secluded in, 595 |
| Grandmother, name given to last sheaf, 401 |
| Grannas-mias, torches, 611 |
| Grannus, a Celtic deity, 611 |
| Grass king, the, 130, 299 |
| Grass knotted as a charm, 242 |
| Grasshoppers, in homoeopathic magic, 37; sacrifice of, 541 |
| Grave, soul fetched from, 185; of Zeus, 265; of Dionysus, 265, 389; of Osiris, 365, 378; dance at initiation in a, 693 |
| Grave-clothes, homoeopathic magic of, in China, 35; no buttons in, 243 |
| Graves, rain-charms at, 67, 71; trees planted on, 115 |
| Greasing the weapon instead of wound, 41 |
| Great Mother, last sheaf called, 401 |
| Grebo people of Sierra Leone, 174 |