Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Religion, and magic, 48–60, 64, 90, 92, 162, 324, 711; defined, 50; two elements of, a theoretical and a practical, 50; and science, 51, 712; the Age of, 56; transition from magic to, 57; and music, 334, 335 |
| Religions, oriental, in the West, 356–362 |
| Religious associations among the Indians of North America, 698 |
| Remission of sins through the shedding of blood, 356 |
| Remulus, 149. See Romulus |
| Renan’s theory of Adonis, 340, 341 |
| Renouf, Sir P. le Page, 384 |
| Reproductive powers, beating people to stimulate their, 581–582 |
| Reptile clan of the Omaha Indians, 474 |
| Resurrection, 236; of the god, 300, 386; of the tree-spirit, 300; of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, 301; enacted in Shrovetide and Lenten ceremonies, 307; of the effigy of Death, 312; of the Carnival, 315; of the Wild Man, 315; of Kostrubonko, 317; of Attis, 350, 360; of Osiris, 374, 376; of Dionysus, 468; of animals, 516, 529; of fish, 527; divine, in Mexican ritual, 592; ritual of death and, 691–701 |
| Rex Nemorensis, King of the Wood, 3 |
| Rheumatism, and magic, 44, 45; popular cure for, 196 |
| Rhine, dramatic contest between Winter and Summer on the middle, 316 |
| Rhodes, worship of Helen in, 356 |
| Rhodians worship the sun, 79 |
| Rhys, Sir John, 635, 636 |
| Rice, in homoeopathic magic, 28, 29; in bloom treated like a pregnant woman, 115, 414; used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, 181, 184; in water, divination by, 256; soul of, 413–415, 417; two sheaves as “husband and wife,” 418; (paddy) father and mother of the, 419; “eating the soul of the rice,” 482; the new, ceremonies at eating, 482 |
| Rice bride and bridegroom, 418; cakes, 490; child, 417; mother, 413, 415, 417 |
| Rickets, cure for, 682 |
| Riedel, J. G. F., 696 |
| Rings to prevent the escape of the soul, 180; as amulets, 226, 243; as spiritual fetters, 243; and knots tabooed, 238–244 |
| Ritual, of Adonis, 335–341; of Attis, 347–352; of Dionysus, 389; primitive, marks of, 411; magical or propitiatory, 411; myths dramatised in, 608; of death and resurrection, 691–701 |
| Rock-crystal in rain-charms, 72, 85 |
| Roepstorff, F. A. de, 255 |
| Romans, sacrificed pregnant victims to ensure fertility, 28; the ancient, their ceremonies for procuring rain, 77, 78; superstition as to egg-shells, 201; cutting hair or nails on shipboard, 234; superstitious objection to clasped hands or crossed legs, 240; belief in the magic virtue of divine names, 261; adopt the worship of the Phrygian Mother of the Gods, 348; their sacrifice of redhaired puppies, 444, 476; their cure for fever, 543; deemed sacred the places struck by lightning, 709 |
| Romanus Lecapenus, the emperor, 680 |
| Rome, the Sacrificial King at, 9, 106; rainmaking in, 78, 149; sacred trees in, 111; kings of, 146–151; King and Queen of, 147, 151; founded by settlers from Alba Longa, 148; descent of the kingship in, 152; Midsummer festival in ancient, 153, 154; priests in, 224; name of guardian deity kept secret, 262; Regifugium at, 301; Phrygian Mother of the Gods brought to, 348; Festival of Joy (Hilaria) at, 350–351; sacrifice of she-goat to Vedijovis at, 392; annual sacrifice of October horse at, 478; festival of the Compitalia at, 491; the Mother and Grandmother of Ghosts at, 491–493; human scapegoats in ancient, 577; Saturnalia at, 583; sacred fire of Vesta at, 665 |
| Romulus, 111, 148, 158, 378 |
| Romulus or Remulus, King of Alba, 149 |
| Rook, island of, expulsion of the devil from the, 547; initiation of young men in the, 695 |
| Rope used to keep off demons, 559 |
| Rose, the Little May, 125; the white, dyed red by the blood of Aphrodite, 336 |
| Roumania, festival of Green George in, 126 |
| Roumanians of Transylvania, 191, 227, 341 |
| Rowan, parasitic, 702 |
| Rowan-tree, a protection against witches, 620 |
| Royalty, the burden of, 168–178 |
| Runaways, knots as charms to stop, 242 |
| Runes, magic, Odin and the, 355 |
| Rupert’s Day, effigy burnt on, 614 |
| Rupture, cure for, 682 |
| Russia, thieves’ candles in, 56; rain-making in, 63, 71; celebration of Whitsuntide in, 121, 128, 134; St. George’s Day in, 128; priest rolled on the fields to fertilise them, 137; use of knots as amulets in, 242; funeral ceremonies of Kostrubonko, etc., in, 317–318; harvest customs in, 405, 425; wood-spirits in, 465; expulsion of demons in Eastern, 559–560; Midsummer fires in, 627, 656; treatment of the effigy of Kupalo in, 652; story of the external soul in, 671; birth trees in, 682; fern-seed at Midsummer in, 704 |
| Rustling of leaves regarded as the voice of spirits, 115 |
| Ruthenia, Midsummer bonfires in, 627 |
| Ruthenian burglars, their charms to cause sleep, 30 |
| Rye-boar, 460, 461; -mother, 399, 400; -dog, 449; -goat, 454; -pug, 449; -sow, 447–460; -wolf, 447–448; -woman, 428; Woman, the Old, 405 |
| Sabaea or Sheba, kings of, 200 |
| Sabarios, a Lithuanian festival, 480 |
| Sabine priests, 224 |
| Sable-hunters, rules observed by, 525 |
| Sacaea, a Babylonian festival, 281; mock king of, 443 |
| Sacrament in the rites of Attis, 351; of swine’s flesh, 470; of first-fruits, 479, combined with a sacrifice of them, 488; of eating a god, 498; types of animal, 532–538 |
| Sacramental bread, 491; eating of corn-spirit in animal form, 470; meal of new rice, 482 |
| Sacred persons, names of tabooed, 257–259 |