Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Souls, of the dead in trees, 115; every man thought to have four, 179; light and heavy, thin and fat, 179; transference of, 184, 185; abducted by demons, 186; extracted or detained by sorcerers, 187–188; supposed to be in portraits, 193; of slain enemies propitiated, 213; of beasts respected, 223; of the dead transmitted to successors, 294; immortal, attributed to animals, 518; the plurality of, 690 |
| South Sea Islands, human gods in the, 96 |
| Sow, corn-spirit as, 460; the cropped black, at Hallowe’en, 636 |
| Sowing, homoeopathic magic at, 28; sexual intercourse before, 136; continence at, 138; rites of, in Egypt, 371; and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, 375; expulsion of demons at, 575 |
| Spain, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; Midsummer fires in, 631 |
| Spark Sunday in Switzerland, 613 |
| Sparrows, charm to keep them from the corn, 530 |
| Sparta, state sacrifices at, 9; sacrifices to the sun at, 79; king not to be touched, 224; warned by oracle against a lame reign, 273; octennial tenure of kingship at, 279 |
| Spears, sacred, 351, 571 |
| Speke, Captain J. H., 196 |
| Spells, cast by strangers, 197; at hair-cutting, 233; cast by witches on union of man and wife, 650 |
| Spelt-goat, last sheaf called the, 456 |
| Spices used in exorcism of demons, 196 |
| Spiders in homoeopathic magic, 31; ceremony at killing, 524 |
| Spindles not to be carried openly on the highroads, 20; not to be twirled while men are in council, 20 |
| Spinning forbidden to women under certain circumstances, 20 |
| Spirit, Brethren and Sisters of the Free, 101; of vegetation, see Vegetation; the Great, of American Indians, 264 |
| Spirits, in trees, 112; water, 145; averse to iron, 225; evil, fear of attracting the attention of, 248; distinguished from gods, 411; of the woods, 465; retreat of the army of, 546 |
| Spitting, forbidden, 218; upon knots as a charm, 241; at ceremony of expulsion of evils, 568 |
| Spittle, used in magic, 13, 233, 234, 237; tabooed, 237; used in making a covenant, 237; magical virtue of, 435, 437 |
| Sprenger, the inquisitor, 681 |
| Spring, magical ceremonies for the revival of nature in, 320; ceremony at the beginning of, in China, 468 |
| Spring customs and harvest customs compared, 410 |
| Spring, oracular, at Dodona, 147 |
| Springbok, not eaten by Bushmen, 495 |
| Squirrels burnt in Easter bonfires, 616, 656 |
| Stabbing men’s shadows in order to injure the men, 189 |
| Standing on one foot, custom of, 284, 285, 288 |
| Star, falling, in magic, 17; the Evening, in Keats’s last sonnet, 34; of Salvation, 346; of Bethlehem, 347; the Morning, 432 |
| Stars, shooting, superstitions as to, 279 |
| Stella Maris, an epithet of the Virgin Mary, 383 |
| Stepping over persons forbidden, 211; over dead panther, 221 |
| Sternberg, Leo, 513, 517 |
| Sticks, charred, uses of, 614, 616, 624, 626; and stones, evils transferred to, 540; whittled, 508, 512 |
| Stiens of Cambodia, the, 524 |
| Stinging with ants as a form of purification, 601 |
| Stone, used in ceremony to facilitate childbirth, 14; supposed to cure jaundice, 16; treading on a, as a homoeopathic charm, 33; (lapis manalis) used in rain-making at Rome, 77–78; holed, in magic, to make sunshine, 78; external soul in a, 680; magical, put into body of novice at initiation, 699 |
| Stone-throwing as a fertility charm, 7; -curlew as a cure for jaundice, 16 |
| Stones anointed in order to avert bullets from warriors, 26; homoeopathic magic of, 33; precious, magical qualities of, 34; rain-making by means of, 75, 85; in charms to make the sun shine, 78; in wind charms, 80; ghosts in, 190; sacred, 235; in last sheaf, 402, 403; criminal crushed between, 431; fatigue transferred to, 540 |
| Stoning human scapegoats, 579 |
| Storms, Catholic priests thought to possess the power of averting, 53; caused by cutting or combing the hair, 234 |
| Stow, in Suffolk, witch at, 44 |
| Strangers, taboos on intercourse with, 194; suspected of practising magic arts, 194; ceremonies at reception of, 195; slain as representatives of the corn-spirit, 426; regarded as representatives of the cornspirit, 429, 431, 439 |
| Straw, wrapt round fruit-trees as a protection against evil spirits, 561; tied round trees to make them fruitful, 612 |
| Straw-bull at harvest, 457; -goat, 456 |
| Strength of people bound up with their hair, 680 |
| Strings, knotted, as amulets, 243 |
| Strudeli and Strätelli, female spirits of the wood, 561 |
| Stseelis Indians of British Columbia, 605 |
| Stubbes, Phillip, his Anatomie of Abuses, 123 |
| Stubble-cock, name of harvest supper, 451 |
| Styx, passage of Aeneas across the, 707 |
| Substitutes, put to death instead of kings, 278, 282, 289; temporary, for the Shah of Persia, 289; for human sacrifices, 354 |
| Substitution for human victims, of animals, 292, 392, 436; of rice-cakes, 490; of effigies, 491 |
| Sudanese, 30 |
| Suffocation as a mode of executing royal criminals, 228 |
| Sulka, the, of New Britain, 64, 76, 247 |
| Sulla, at the temple of Diana, 164 |
| “Sultan of the Scribes,” at Fez, 286 |
| Sumatra, magical image to obtain offspring in, 14; pregnant woman not to stand at the door in, 21; homoeopathic magic at sowing rice in, 28; rain-charm by means of a black cat in, 72; personification of the rice in, 415; tigers respected in, 519; human scapegoat in, 570 |