Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Sacrifice, of the king’s son, 289; of virility, 349, 350; not to be touched, 473; annual, of a sacred animal, 475; of first-fruits, 488; of heifer at kindling need-fire, 641 |
| Sacrifices, offered to ancestors, 71, 72; human, 79, 96, 112, 117, 146, 279, 281, 290, 354, 355, 378–380, 431, 569, 571, 579, 587, 609, 617, 653, 657, 658; offered to kings, 104; offered to a sacred sword, 109; offered to trees, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118; on roof of new house, 117; to water-spirits, 146; to the dead, 175; at foundation of buildings, 191; to souls of slain enemies, 212; vicarious, 292; of children among the Semites, 293; offered in connection with irrigation, 370 |
| Sacrificial king at Rome, 9, 106 |
| Sagard, Gabriel, 527 |
| Saghalien, facilitating childbirth in, 240 |
| Sahagun, B. de, 587 |
| St. Andrews, witch burned at, 243 |
| St. Angelo, ill-treated in drought, 75 |
| St. Bride, her Day in the Highlands of Scotland, 134; an old goddess of fertility, 135 |
| St. Bridget, 134 |
| St. Columba, 101 |
| St. Dasius, martyrdom of, 584–585 |
| St. Denys, his seven heads, 366 |
| St. Francis of Paolo, 74 |
| St. Gens, his image used in rain-making, 77 |
| St. George, festival of, 360 |
| St. George’s Day, fertilisation of barren women by fruit-trees on, 119; Green George on, 126–128; ceremony to fertilise the fields on, 137 |
| St. Gervais, spring of, 77 |
| St. Hippolytus, 5 |
| St. James, 50, 51 |
| St. John, Midsummer festival of, in Sardinia, 343; Sweethearts of, 343; oil of, found on oak leaves at Midsummer, 661–662, 706 |
| —— the Baptist, bathing on his day, 70; his chapel at Athens, 545; associated with Midsummer Day, 622 |
| ——, the Knights of, 630; Grand Master of the Order of, 631 |
| St. John’s Day, swinging on, 289; Midsummer fires on, 624, 628; fern-seed blooms on, 704. See Midsummer Day |
| St. John’s Eve, in Sweden, 122; Russian ceremony on, 318; in Malta, 631 |
| St. Joseph, ill-treated in drought, 75 |
| St. Lawrence, fire of, 536 |
| St. Louis, 90 |
| St. Mary, Isle of, 523 |
| St. Maughold, gives veil to St. Bridget, 134 |
| St. Michael, ill-treated in drought, 75 |
| St. Patrick, canon attributed to, 90 |
| St. Paul, on immortality, 39 |
| St. Peter, as giver of rain, 77 |
| St. Peter’s Day, 318, 360 |
| St. Pons, his image used in rain-making, 77 |
| St. Rochus’s Day, need-fire kindled on, 641 |
| Saint Sécaire, Mass of, 54 |
| St. Stephen’s Day, 537 |
| St. Sylvester’s Day, 561 |
| St. Tecla, falling sickness cured in her church at Llandegla in Wales, 545 |
| St. Vitus’s Day, 644 |
| Saints, violence done to images of, to procure rain, 75; images of, dipped in water as a rain-charm, 77 |
| Sakalavas of Madagascar, 172, 258, 295 |
| Sakvari, song, ancient Indian hymn, 67 |
| Sal tree, 145 |
| Salish or Flathead Indians, 187, 486 |
| Salmon, twins thought to be, 66; ceremonies at catching the first of the season, 528 |
| Salmoneus, king of Elis, 77, 149, 159, 292 |
| Salt, abstinence from, 23, 138; not to be eaten, 218, 510, 595, 602; Mexican Goddess of, 588 |
| Salt-pans, continence observed by workers in, 219 |
| Salvation of the individual soul, importance attached to, in Oriental religions, 357 |
| Samarcand, homoeopathic magic applied to babies in, 32; New Year ceremony in, 285 |
| Samaveda, the, 67 |
| Samhnagan, Hallowe’en bonfires, 635 |
| Samoa, rain-making in, 75; taboo on persons who have handled the dead in, 206; butterfly god in, 474; the Wild Pigeon family in, 474 |
| Samorin, title of the kings of Calicut, 275 |
| Samoyed shamans, their familiar spirits, 683 |
| Samoyeds of Siberia, 252 |
| Sampson, Agnes, a Scotch witch, 542 |
| Samyas monastery, near Lhasa, 573 |
| San Pellegrina, church of, at Ancona, 585 |
| Sanctity and uncleanness not clearly differentiated in the primitive mind, 607 |
| Sandwich Islands, the king personated the god in the, 93, 94; precaution as to spittle of chiefs in the, 237 |
| Saning Sari, rice goddess, 415 |
| Sanitation improved through superstition 201 |
| Sankara and the Grand Lama, 189 |
| Santals, their belief in the absence of the soul in dreams, 182 |
| Saparoea, East Indian island, fishermen’s magic in, 18 |
| Sarawak, 15, 25, 89; taboos observed in, 24 |
| Sardines worshipped by Indians of Peru, 527 |
| Sardinia, gardens of Adonis in, 343; Sweethearts of St. John at Midsummer in, 343–344; Midsummer fires in, 344 |
| Sarmata Islands, marriage of the Sun and Earth in, 136 |
| Satan, annually expelled by the Wotyaks, 559, and by the Cheremiss, 560; preaches a sermon in North Berwick church, 681 |
| Saturn, the god of sowing, 583; his festival the Saturnalia, 584 |
| Saturnalia, 136, 153, 553, 575; the Roman, 158, 583–587 |
| Satyrs in relation to goats, 464 |
| Savage, the, 47; his awe and dread of everything new, 225; our debt to, 262–264; not to be judged by European standards, 294; not illogical, 517; his belief that animals have souls, 518; unable to discriminate clearly between men and animals, 532; secretiveness of, 691; his dread of sorcery, 691 |
| Savage Island, kings killed on account of dearth in, 87; cessation of monarchy in, 176 |
| Savage philosophy, 263 |
| Saxo Grammaticus, 33, 155 |
| Saxons of Transylvania, 238, 239, 306, 312, 316, 456, 530, 672 |