Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Pillar, fever transferred to a, 545 |
| Pine-cones, symbols of fertility, 353; thrown into vaults of Demeter, 353 |
| —— -tree, in the myth and ritual of Attis, 347, 348, 350, 352; in the rites of Osiris, 380; sacred to Dionysus, 387 |
| Pipiles of Central America, 136 |
| Pirua, granary of maize, 412 |
| Pitteri Pennu, Khond god of increase, 557 |
| Placenta (afterbirth) and navel-string, contagious magic of, 39–41 |
| Plague, transferred to camel, 540; sent away in scapegoat, 565 |
| Plane-tree, Dionysus in, 387 |
| Planets, human victims sacrificed to, 444 |
| Plantain-tree, afterbirth buried under a, 40; fertilised by parents of twins, 137 |
| Plants, magic to make them grow, 28; influence persons homoeopathically, 29; sexes of, 114; thought to be animated by spirits, 487; external soul in, 681 |
| Plataea, festival of the Daedala at, 143; the Archon of, 224 |
| Plough, in relation to Dionysus, 387; piece of Yule log inserted in the, 645 |
| Ploughing, by women as a rain-charm, 70; ceremony of, performed by temporary king, 284, 288; Prussian custom at, 342; in rites of Osiris, 375 |
| Plurality of souls, doctrine of the, 690 |
| Pluto, carries off Persephone, 393, 469–470 |
| Plutus, begotten in thrice-ploughed field, 421 |
| Poison, continence observed at brewing, 219 |
| Poison ordeal, 294 |
| Poland, objection to iron ploughshares in, 225; harvest customs in, 404, 406, 451; Christmas custom in, 450; need-fire in, 641 |
| Pole-star, homoeopathic magic of the, 34 |
| Pollution and holiness not differentiated by savages, 223 |
| Polynesia, taboos in, 205, 206, 259; sacredness of the head in, 231; infanticide in, 293 |
| Polynesian chiefs sacred, 205 |
| Polynesians, oracular inspiration of priests among the, 94; their way or ridding themselves of sacred contagion, 473 |
| Polytheism evolved out of animism, 117 |
| Pomegranate causes virgin to conceive, 347 |
| Pomegranates sprung from the blood of Dionysus, 389; seeds of, not eaten at the Thesmophoria, 389 |
| Pomerania, harvest custom in, 430 |
| Pometia sacked by the Romans, 6 |
| Pommerol, Dr., 611 |
| Pomos of California, 562 |
| Pompey the Great, 328 |
| Ponape, one of the Caroline Islands, treatment of the navel-string in, 40; king of, 232 |
| Pongol, Hindoo family festival, 482 |
| Pons Sublicius at Rome, 225 |
| Poona, rain-making at, 70; incarnation of elephant-headed god at, 100 |
| Poor Man, name applied to the corn-spirit after harvest, 465 |
| —— Old Woman, last sheaf left for, 465 |
| Poor Woman, name applied to the cornspirit after harvest, 465 |
| Poplar wood used to kindle need-fire, 639 |
| Porta Capena at Rome, 4, 351 |
| Portraits, souls in, 193 |
| Portugal, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35 |
| Poseidon, 97, 471 |
| Potato Woman, the Old, 405; -mother, 413; -wolf, 448, 449; -dog, 449 |
| Potatoes, magical stones for increase of, 33; custom at eating new, 481 |
| Prayers, to the sun, 14, 26, 78; for rain, 71, 77, 86, 118, 159–161; to Dionysus, 387; to dead animals, 507, 522–524 |
| Precious stones, magic of, 34 |
| Pregnancy, 238, 239 |
| Pretenders to divinity among Christians, 101 |
| Priest, of Diana, 1, 8, 710; of Nemi, 8, 161, 163, 167; and magician, their antagonism, 52; drenched with water as a raincharm, 70; rolled on fields as a fertility charm, 139; of Zeus, 159; brings back lost souls in a bag, 186; of Dionysus, 291; sows and plucks the first rice, 482; of Aricia, 592; of the Earth, 594 |
| Priestesses, 94, 594 |
| Priestly kings, 9 |
| Priests, magical powers attributed to, 53, 54; inspired by gods, 94; influence wielded by, 196; their hair unshorn, 232; foods tabooed to, 238; of Attis, the emasculated, 347; sacrifice human victims, 589, 591 |
| Princesses married to foreigners or men of low birth, 154 |
| Processions, for rain in Sicily, 74; with bears from house to house, 512; with sacred animals, 535; to the Midsummer bonfires, 628, 630; of giants (effigies) at popular festivals, 654 |
| Progress, the magician’s, 45–48 |
| Prophets, Hebrew, their ethical religion, 51 |
| Propitiation, essential to religion, 50; of the souls of the slain, 212; of the spirits of slain animals, 217, 220; of the spirits of plants, 487; of wild animals by hunters, 518–532; of vermin by farmers, 530 |
| Prostitution, sacred, before marriage, 330; suggested origin of, 331 |
| Provence, priests thought to possess the power of averting storms in, 53; Maytrees in, 124; mock execution of Caramantran on Ash Wednesday in, 304; Midsummer fires in, 630; the Yule log in, 637 |
| Prussia, contagious magic in, 44; custom at spring ploughing in, 342; harvest customs in, 421, 426; the Corn-goat in, 454; the Bull at reaping in, 459; Midsummer fires in, 627 |
| ——, East, harvest customs in, 401, 453, 454, 457 |
| ——, West, harvest customs in, 402, 457; pretence of birth of child on harvest-field in, 406, 421 |
| Prussian rulers formerly burnt, 274 |
| Prussians, the old, 288; their funeral feasts, 227; supreme ruler of, 274 |