Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Talmud, the, on menstruous women, 604 |
| Talos, legend of, 280 |
| Tamarind tree, sacred, 118 |
| Tammuz, or Adonis, 325; the lover of Ishtar, 325; laments for, 326; mourned for at Jerusalem, 327; as a corn-spirit, 338; his bones ground in a mill, 338, 442; perhaps represented by the mock king of Sacaea, 442–443 |
| Tana (Tanna), one of the New Hebrides, contagious magic of clothes in, 43; magic practised on refuse of food in, 201 |
| Tapio, woodland god in Finland, 141 |
| Tar barrel, burning, swung round pole at Midsummer, 625 |
| Tara, capital of ancient Ireland, 173, 273 |
| Tari Pennu, earth goddess, 434 |
| Taro plants beaten to make them grow, 581 |
| Tarquin the Elder, 152 |
| —— the Proud, 150 |
| Tartar Khan, ceremony at visiting a, 198 |
| —— stories of the external soul, 675, 676 |
| Tartars, the Buddhist, 102 |
| Tasmania, 252 |
| Tatius, king of Rome, 152, 158 |
| Tattoo marks of priests of Attis, 352 |
| Tattooing in the Punjaub, 180 |
| Tauric Diana, her image brought by Orestes to Italy, 2; only to be appeased with human blood, 6 |
| Taygetus, Mount, sacrifices to the sun on, 79 |
| Taylor, Rev. J. C., 570 |
| Teeth, contagious magic of, 38–39; of rats and mice in magic, 39; of ancestor in magical ceremony, 78; of sacred kings preserved as amulets, 109; loss of supposed effect of breaking a taboo, 206; as a rain-charm, 234; extracted, kept against the resurrection, 236 |
| Tegner, Swedish poet, 664 |
| Tein-eigin, need-fire, in Scotland, 617, 618 |
| Telepathy, magical, 22, 24, 25 |
| Telugus, their way of stopping rain, 64 |
| Temple at Jerusalem, built without iron, 225 |
| Temples built in honour of living kings of Babylon, and of Egypt, 104 |
| Tenedos, isle of, 291, 392 |
| Tepehuanes of Mexico, 193 |
| Teton Indians, 524 |
| Teutonic kings as priests, 9; stories of the external soul, 672; thunder-god, 160 |
| Tezcatlipoco, Mexican god, 587 |
| Thargelia, Greek festival of the, 579, 582 |
| Thebes, the Boeotian, grave of Dionysus at, 389 |
| Thebes, in Egypt, 142, 174; Valley of the Kings at, 377; annual sacrifice of ram to Ammon at, 477, 500 |
| Theddora tribe of South-east Australia, 498 |
| Theocracies in America, 170 |
| Theogamy, divine marriage, 140 |
| Theology distinguished from religion, 50 |
| Theseus and Hippolytus, 4 |
| Thesmophoria, ancient Greek festival, 353, 371, 389, 469, 470 |
| Thevet, F. A., 88 |
| Thieves’ candles, 30, 31, 56 |
| Thlinkeet or Tlingit Indians, 234, 528, 600 |
| Thompson Indians of British Columbia, 27, 45, 487, 708 |
| Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, 708 |
| Thor, the Norse thunder-god, 160 |
| Thorn bushes to keep off ghosts, 207 |
| Thorns, wreaths of, hung up as a sign to warn off strangers, 558 |
| Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, 362, 364 |
| Thrace, worship of Dionysus in, 386; the Bacchanals of, 390; human scapegoat in, 579 |
| Thracian gods ruddy and blue-eyed, 260 |
| Thread, use of, in magic, 181, 242, 545 |
| Thresher of the last corn, 400, 405–406, 448, 456, 458, 460 |
| Thresher-cow, in the Canton of Zurich, 458 |
| Threshing, customs at, 400, 405, 418, 428–429, 431, 448, 449, 451, 453, 456, 458, 460 |
| Threshing-dog, 448 |
| Thrumalum, mythical being in Australia, 693 |
| Thunar or Donar, German thunder-god, 160 |
| Thunder, imitation of, 63; kings expected to make, 149; expiation for hearing, 174; Midsummer fires a protection against, 627, 629 |
| Thunder-beings, 524; -besom, 662, 709; -bird, the mythical, 599; -god, 161 |
| Thunderbolt, Zeus surnamed the, 159 |
| Thuremlin, a mythical being, 692 |
| Thüringen, homoeopathic magic at sowing flax in, 28; May King in, 129; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 300; carrying out Death in, 308; customs at threshing in, 405, 458; the Harvest-cock in, 451; “the Boar in the corn” in, 460; Midsummer fires in, 656 |
| Tiber, puppets thrown into the, 493 |
| Tibet, the Grand Lamas of, 102; incarnate human gods in, 103; vicarious use of images in, 492; human scapegoats in, 572 |
| Tibetan new year, 572 |
| Tides, homoeopathic magic of the, 34, 35 |
| Tigers, respected in Sumatra, 519 |
| Timmes, the, of Sierra Leone, 176 |
| Timor, island of, telepathy in, 26; fetish or taboo rajah in, 177; war customs in, 212; transference of fatigue to leaves in, 540 |
| Timorlaut Islands, 526, 564 |
| Tinneh or Déné Indians, 208; of North-west America, 486 |
| Titans kill Dionysus, 388 |
| Tiyans of Malabar, 602 |
| Tlingit or Thlinkeet Indians, 234, 528, 600 |
| Tlokoala, a secret society of the Nootka Indians, 699 |
| Toads in relation to rain, 73 |
| Tobacco, used as an emetic, 484–485 |
| Tobacco smoke, priest inspired by, 95 |
| Toboongkoo, the, of Central Celebes, 116 |
| Todas, a tribe of Southern India, 100, 175, 534 |
| Togoland, expulsion of devils in, 555 |
| Tolalaki, the, of Central Celebes, 498 |
| Tolampoos, the, of Central Celebes, 244 |
| Tomori, the, of Central Celebes, 116, 416 |
| Tonapoo, the, of Central Celebes, 117 |
| Tonga, chief’s touch thought to heal scrofula in, 90; veneration paid to divine chiefs in, 177; kings of, 203, 231; tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, 206; ceremony performed after contact with a sacred chief in, 473 |