Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Tonquin, division of monarchy in, 177; annual expulsion of demons in, 558 |
| Toothache, transferred to enemies, 539; remedy for, 544 |
| Toradjas of Central Celebes, 18, 21, 68, 71, 75, 117, 197, 232, 416, 581 |
| Torches, offered by women to Diana, 3; used to mimic lightning, 77; used in expulsion of demons, 548, 550, 554, 555, 557, 560, 562; in expulsion of witches, 560, 561; processions with lighted, 610, 611, 647; carried round folds, 631; applied to fruit trees to fertilise them, 647 |
| Torres Straits Islands, 604; magic in the, 18; personal names tabooed in, 250; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 598 |
| Tortoises in magic, 36; reasons for not eating, 495 |
| Totem, skin disease supposed to be caused by eating, 473; supposed effect of killing, 689; receptacle for a man’s external soul, 690; transference of soul to, 692, 700 |
| Totem animal, artificial, 699; clans, 17, 504, 700 |
| Totemism, in Australia and America, 533; suggested theory of, 689 |
| Totems, magical ceremonies for the multiplication of the, 17, 85–86 |
| Toumbuluh tribe of North Celebes, 239, 240 |
| Toxcatl, old Mexican festival, 587 |
| Transmigration of human souls, into turtles, 504; into bears, 511; into totem animals, 691 |
| Transubstantiation, 490 |
| Transylvania, rain-making in, 71; festival of Green George in, 126; continence at sowing in, 138; saying as to sleeping child in, 182; harvest customs in, 451, 452, 456; customs at sowing in, 530; story of the external soul in, 672 |
| Transylvania, the Germans of, 239; the Roumanians of, 191, 227, 341; the Saxons of, 238, 306, 312, 316, 456, 530, 672 |
| Travancore, the Rajah of, 543 |
| Tree, that has been struck by lightning, 80, 708; decked with sham bracelets, etc., 342; burnt in the Midsummer bonfire, 626, 628; external soul in a, 670, 680. See also Trees |
| Tree-agates, 34 |
| —— -spirit, represented simultaneously in vegetable and human form, 125; representative of, thrown into water to ensure rain, 126; killing of the, 296–323; resurrection of the, 300; in relation to the vegetation-spirit, 315–316; Attis as a, 352; Osiris as a, 380; effigies of, burnt in bonfires, 651; human representatives of, put to death, 652, 665 |
| —— -spirits, 109–117; beneficent powers of, 117–120, 651; in human form or embodied in living people, 125 |
| —— -worship, 109; among the ancient Germans, 110; among European families of the Aryan stock, 110; among the Lithuanians, 110; in ancient Greece and Italy, 111; among the Finnish-Ugrian stock in Europe, 111; notions at the root of, 111; in modern Europe, relics of, 120–135 |
| Trees, worship of, 109; oracular, 110; regarded as animate, 111; sacrifices offered to, 112, 113, 115, 116, 118; sensitive, 112; apologies offered to, for cutting them down, 113; bleeding, 113; threatened to make them bear fruit, 113; married to each other, 114; in blossom treated like pregnant women, 115; animated by the souls of the dead, 115; planted on graves, 115; demons in, 116; ceremonies at cutting down, 116; grant women an easy delivery, 120; sacred, 120; represented on the monuments of Osiris, 380; in relation to Dionysus, 387; evils transferred to, 545; burnt in bonfires, 612, 616, 626, 630, 651; lives of people bound up with, 681, 682; passing through cleft trees as a cure for various maladies, 682–683; fire thought by savages to be stored like sap in, 706 |
| Tribute of youths and maidens sent to the Minotaur, 280 |
| Trinity, the Hindoo, 52 |
| Triptolemus, prince of Eleusis, 394, 396, 470 |
| Troezen, sanctuary of Hippolytus at, 6 |
| Trolls, 617, 625, 663, 707 |
| Tsetsaut Indians of British Columbia, 600 |
| Tshi-speaking peoples of the Gold Coast, 26 |
| Tsimshian Indians of British Columbia, 66 |
| Tsuen-cheu-fu, in China, geomancy at, 36 |
| Tuaregs of the Sahara, 252 |
| Tübingen, burying the Carnival near, 306 |
| Tuhoe tribe of Maoris, 119 |
| Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome, 141, 158 |
| Tumleo, island of, 43 |
| Tun¯a, a spirit, expulsion of, 551 |
| Turcoman cure for fever, 242 |
| Turkestan, human scapegoat in, 543 |
| Turks, exorcism practised by the, 195; preserve their nail-parings for use at the resurrection, 236; of Central Asia, 496 |
| Turmeric cultivated, 434, 437 |
| Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough, 1 |
| “Turquoise, Mistress of,” at Sinai, 330 |
| Turtle, magical models of, 18 |
| Turtles, killing the sacred, 502; transmigration of human souls into, 504 |
| Twanyirika, an Australian spirit, 693 |
| Twelfth Day, ceremony of the King at Carcassone on, 537; the Eve of, 561, 609, 647 |
| —— Night, expulsion of the powers of evil on, 561; the King of the Bean on, 586; the Yule log on, 637 |
| Twelve Days from Christmas to Twelfth Night, precautions against witches during the, 561; Nights, remains of Yule log scattered over the fields during the, 637 |
| Twins, 29, 227; taboos laid on parents of, 66; supposed to possess magical powers. 66–67; associated with salmon, and the grizzly bear, 66; called children of the sky, 67; water poured on graves of, 67; parents of, thought to be able to fertilise plantain trees, 137 |
| “Two Brothers, The,” Egyptian tale of, 674 |
| Tycoons, the, 176 |
| Typhon, or Set, the brother of Osiris, 363, 365, 475 |