Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Apologies offered to trees, 113, 115, 116; by savages to the animals they kill, 520, 523 |
| Apoyaos, head-hunters, 433 |
| Apple-tree, barren women roll under, to obtain offspring, 120; straw man placed on oldest, 467; torches thrown at, 610; as life-index of boy, 682 |
| Arab charms, 31, 242; name for the scarlet anemone, 336 |
| Arabia, belief as to shadows in ancient, 190; camel as scapegoat in, 540 |
| Arabian Nights, story of the external soul in the, 674 |
| Arabs, of Moab, 32, 378; of North Africa, 70 |
| Araucanians of South America, 245 |
| Archigallus, high priest of Attis, 349, 353 |
| Arctic regions, ceremonies at the reappearance of the sun in the, 551 |
| Arden, forest of, 110 |
| Ardennes, effigies of Carnival in the, 305; exorcising rats in the, 531; bonfires on the first Sunday in Lent, 609, 656; Lenten fires and customs in the French, 610 |
| Aricia, 1, 2; many Manii at, 6, 491; its distance from the sanctuary, 106; the priest of, 582, 592, 593, 703 |
| Arician grove, 5, 6, 301, 477–479, 491, 582, 704 |
| Arizona, aridity of, 76 |
| Armenia, rain-making in, 70; cut hair, nails, and extracted teeth preserved in, 236; sacred prostitution of girls before marriage in, 331 |
| Arrows, in homeopathic magic, 29; in contagious magic, 41; fire-tipped, shot at sun during an eclipse, 78; shot as a rain-charm, 99 |
| Arsacid house, divinity of Parthian kings of the, 104 |
| Art, sylvan deities in classical, 117 |
| Artemis, 120, 140, 141; and Hippolytus, 4–7; and Apollo, 120; of Ephesus, 141, 349; at Perga, 330; the Hanged, 355 |
| Aru Islands, custom of not sleeping after a death in the, 182; dog’s flesh eaten to make eater brave, 496 |
| Arunta of Central Australia, 17, 603 |
| Arval Brothers, 224, 578. |
| Aryan god of thunder, 638 |
| Aryans, magical powers ascribed to kings, 89; in Europe, 110, 159, 161, 163, 656, 665; descent of kingship through women, 155; of ancient India, 490; their use of the sacred oak-wood, 666; stories of the external soul, 668; reverence for the oak, 709 |
| Ascension Day, 312, 702 |
| Ascetic idealism of the East, 139 |
| Ash-tree in popular cures, 546, 682 |
| Ash Wednesday 302, 304, 305, 461, 614 |
| Ashantees, 497 |
| Ashes, in magic, 30–32, 72, 76; of human victims scattered on fields, 378–380, 433, 436–438, 442, 443; of bonfires, use of, 611, 615, 621, 635, 645, 646; of Midsummer fires, 626, 629, 631, 632; of the Yule log, 637; of the need-fire, 640 |
| Asia Minor, pontiffs in, 9; human scapegoats in, 579 |
| Asongtata, annual ceremony performed by the Garos of Assam, 568 |
| Asopus, the river, 143 |
| Aspalis, a form of Artemis, 355 |
| Ass, in cure for scorpion’s bite, 544 |
| Assam, the hill tribes of, taboos observed by the headman and his wife, 173, and by warriors, 212; parents named after their children in, 248; head-hunting in, 441; the Asongtata ceremony in, 568 |
| Assumption of the Virgin, festival of, 360 |
| Astarte, a great Babylonian goddess, 327, 335, 346 |
| Athamas, king of Alus, 290–292 |
| Athena and the aegis, 477 |
| Athenian sacrifice of the bouphonia, 466 |
| Athenians, decree divine honours to Demetrius Poliorcetes and his father Antigonus, 97; prayed to Zeus for rain, 159; their tribute of youths and maidens to Minos, 280; sacrifice to Dionysus for the fruits of the land, 386; their use of human scapegoats, 579 |
| Athens, king and queen at, 9; titular king at, 106; marriage of Dionysus at, 142; female kinship at, 155; sacred spots struck by lightning at, 159; the Commemoration of the Dead at, 340; Dionysus of the Black Goatskin at, 390; annual sacrifice of a goat on the Acropolis of, 477; fever transferred to pillar at, 545 |
| Atonement, Jewish Day of, 569 |
| Attica, summer festival of Adonis in, 336; Flowery Dionysus in, 387; time of threshing in, 466; killing an ox formerly a capital crime in, 466 |
| Attis, and Cybele, 4, 5, 8; myth and ritual of, 347–352; as a god of vegetation, 352, 353; human representatives of, 353–356; his relation to Lityerses, 440; killed by a boar, 471 |
| Augustine, 359, 382 |
| Augustus as a ruler, 46 |
| Aun or On, King of Sweden, 278, 290 |
| Aurelia Aemilia, a sacred harlot, 331 |
| Australia, magical ceremonies in, 17; charms in, 32; contagious magic in, 38, 39, 42, 44, 45; magic practised but religion nearly unknown in aboriginal, 55; rain-making in, 64, 65, 72, 76; detaining the sun or hastening its descent in, 80; dust columns thought to be spirits in, 82; government of old men in aboriginal, 83; ceremony observed at approaching the camp of another tribe, 197; totemism in, 533; annual expulsion of ghosts in, 550; dread and seclusion of women at menstruation in, 603; initiation of young men in, 692 |
| ——, Central, magical ceremonies for the supply of food in, 17; charm to promote the growth of beards in, 32; contagious magic of wounds in, 42; headmen of totem clans public magicians in, 83; conceàlment of personal names in, 245; avoidance of the names of the dead in, 252; magical rites for the revival of nature in, 323; expelling the devil in, 548 |