Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Pacific, oracular inspiration of priests in the Southern, 94 |
| Paddy (unhusked rice), the Father and Mother of the, 419 |
| Padlock as amulet, 242 |
| Paganism and Christianity, resemblances explained as diabolical counterfeits, 358, 361 |
| Palatinate, mimic contest between Summer and Winter in the, 316 |
| ——, the Upper, trees asked for pardon on being felled in, 113 |
| Palatine Hill at Rome, 111 |
| Palenque in Central America, ruins of, 10 |
| Palm-branches, in ceremony to procure rain, 74; ashes of, mixed with seed at sowing, 615; stuck in fields to protect them against hail, 617 |
| —— Sunday, 74, 125, 705 |
| —— -tree, thought to ensure fertility, 119 |
| Pan’s image whipped with squills, 580 |
| Panes, festival of, 499 |
| Pango, title signifying god, 98 |
| Pans, rustic Greek deities, 464 |
| Panther, ceremony at the killing of a, 221 |
| Panua, tribe of Khonds, 434 |
| Paphos in Cyprus, 329; sanctuary of Aphrodite at, 330; religious prostitution at, 331 |
| Papuans, the, 43, 496, 682; of Finsch Haven, 246 |
| Papyrus of Nebseni, 380; of Nekht, 380 |
| Parents-in-law, their names not to be pronounced, 249–250 |
| Parilia, the, Roman festival of shepherds, 154, 360 |
| Parkinson, John, 281 |
| Parrot, external soul of warlock in a, 669 |
| Parrots’ eggs, a signal of death, 273 |
| Parthian monarchs brothers of the Sun, 104 |
| Pârvatî and Siva, marriage of the images of, 320 |
| Paschal candle, 614 |
| —— Mountains, Easter fires on the, 615 |
| Passier, in Sumatra, king of, 277 |
| Pastoral tribes, animal sacraments among, 533 |
| Patagonia, 236; remedy for smallpox in, 550 |
| Patani Bay, the Malays of, 183 |
| Paternity of kings a matter of indifference under female kinship, 154 |
| Paton, W. R., 580 |
| Pawnees, the, 225, 432 |
| Payaguas of South America, 82 |
| Pea-mother, 399, 400; -wolf, 448 |
| Peacock, a totem of the Bhils, 474 |
| Pear-tree as protector of cattle, 119; as life-index of a girl, 682 |
| Pearls, in homoeopathic magic, 37 |
| Peas-cow, 458; -pug, 448 |
| Pebbles thrown into Midsummer fires, 628 |
| Pelew Islands, 116; seclusion of man-slayers in, 215; taboos observed by relations of murdered man in the, 227 |
| Pelops and Hippodamia, 156 |
| Penance observed after building a new house, 117; for killing a boa-constrictor, 222 |
| Pennefather River in Queensland, the natives of the, 39 |
| Pennyroyal, burnt in Midsummer fire, 631 |
| Pentheus, king of Thebes, 378, 392 |
| Pepper as a cure or exorcism, 196; dropped into eyes of strangers, 198 |
| Perche, in France, homoeopathic cure for vomiting in, 16 |
| Perils of the soul, 178–194 |
| Perkunas or Perkuns, the Lithuanian god of thunder and lightning, 161 |
| Persephone, 327, 393–396, 398, 414, 420–424, 469 |
| Persia, horses sacrificed to the Sun in, 79; temporary kings in, 289; king of, 593 |
| Personification of abstract ideas not primitive, 315 |
| Peru, Indians of, 30, 33, 144, 236, 527; theocratic despotism of ancient, 48 |
| Perun, the thunder-god of the Slavs, 161 |
| Peruvian Andes, 79 |
| Peruvians, the ancient, 412 |
| Pessinus, priestly kings at, 9; local legend of Attis at, 347; image of the Mother of the Gods at, 348; high-priest of Cybele at, 353; high-priest perhaps slain in the character of Attis at, 440 |
| Phaedra and Hippolytus, 4, 7 |
| Phalaris and his brazen bull, 281 |
| Phaya Phollathep, “Lord of the Heavenly Hosts,” temporary king in Siam, 284 |
| Pheneus, lake of, 110 |
| Philae, the sculptures at, 376, 381 |
| Philippine Islands, the, belief that souls of ancestors are in certain trees in, 115; grave of the Creator in, 264; human sacrifices in, 355, 433; head-hunting in, 441 |
| Philo of Byblus, 293 |
| Philosophy, as a solvent of religion, 162; primitive, 263 |
| Philostratus, on death at low tide, 35 |
| Phoenicia, song of Linus in, 425 |
| Phoenician temples, 330, 331; kings in Cyprus, 332; vintage song, 425, 442 |
| Phrixus and Helle, children of King Athamas, 290 |
| Phrygia, 347, 354; Lityerses in, 425, 426 |
| Phrygian cosmogony, 347; cap of Attis, 353 |
| Picardy, harvest customs in, 451; Lenten fire-customs in, 612 |
| Picts, female descent of kingship among the, 156 |
| Piers, Sir Henry, 120 |
| Pig, sacrificed for rain or sunshine, 73; blood of a, drunk as a means of inspiration, 95; and lamb as expiatory victims, 224; corn-spirit as a, 460–462; in relation to Demeter, 469, and Attis, 471; attitude of Jews to the, 472; in ancient Egypt, 472; used to decoy demons, 549, 556–557. See also Pigs |
| Pigeon, family of Wild, in Samoa, 474 |
| Pigs, magical ceremonies to catch wild, 18; magical stones to breed, 33; sacrificed at the marriage of Sun and Earth, 136; at the Thesmophoria, 469, 476; sacrificed to the moon and to Osiris, 472; reasons for not eating the flesh of, 494; driven through Midsummer fire, 627, and through the need-fire, 640; offered to monster who swallows novices in initiation, 694, 696 |