Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Corn-spirit, Adonis as a, 338; represented by human victims, 339; represented as a dead old man, 372; killing the, 425–431; slain in his human representatives, 438–447; how representative was chosen, 439; as an animal, 447–464. |
| Corn-medicine festival, 419, 420 |
| Cornwall, temporary king in, 287 |
| Cos, sanctuary of Aesculapius in, 111; harvest-home in, 396 |
| Costa Rica, 605 |
| Cottonwood trees, the shades or spirits of, 111, 112 |
| Courland, custom of sowing in, 461 |
| Cow, ceremony of rebirth from a golden, 197; sacred to Isis, 373; corn-spirit as, 457; as scapegoat, 565, 571; witches steal milk from, 648; mistletoe given to, 663 |
| Creator, the grave of the, 264 |
| Creek Indians, 211, 484, 605 |
| Cretan festival of Dionysus, 389, 390 |
| Crete, milk-stones in, 34 |
| Crevaux, J., 195 |
| Criminals shorn to make them confess, 680 |
| Cripple Goat, last sheaf called, 455 |
| Crocodile, girl sacrificed to a, 145 |
| Crocodiles, Malay charm to catch, 19; spared by savages out of respect, 518 |
| Cronus, his sacrifice of his son, 293 |
| Crops, charms to promote the growth of the, 28, 288, 610, 613, 614, 624, 645; intercourse of the sexes to promote the growth of the, 136; human victims sacrificed for the, 355, 431; superstitious devices to get rid of vermin in the, 530; supposed to be spoiled by menstruous women, 604, 606 |
| “Cross of the Horse,” first sheaf called, 460 |
| Cross-road, fever deposited at, 544; offerings at, 557; ceremonies at, 561; Midsummer fires lighted at, 625 |
| “Crying the Mare” in Hertfordshire, 459 |
| “Crying the neck” in Devonshire, 445 |
| Crystals, magic of, 38, 76, 85 |
| Cumanus, the inquisitor, 681 |
| Cumont, Professor Franz, 584 |
| Cup-and-ball as a charm, 80 |
| Cybele, Mother of the Gods, 347; worship of, 348 |
| Cynaetha, festival of Dionysus at, 390 |
| Cyprus, sacred prostitution in, 330 |
| Cytisorus, son of Phrixus, 290, 291 |
| Cyzicus, council chamber at, 225 |
| Dacotas, 529 |
| Daedala, festival of the, 143 |
| Dahomey, the king of, 172, 199, 257 |
| Dairi, the, or Mikado of Japan, 168, 169 |
| Dairies, sacred, of the Todas, 175 |
| Dalai Lama of Lhasa, 103 |
| Dalmatia, belief as to the souls of trees in, 112 |
| Damia and Auxesia, 7 |
| Dams, continence at making, 220; in Egypt, 369, 370 |
| Danae, the story of, 602 |
| Dances, of women while men are away fighting, 26, 27; to make hemp grow, 28; for rain, 64; round sacred trees, 118; round the May-pole, 122, 124, 126; round bonfires, 122, 610–612, 614, 620, 621, 625, 628–630; to fertilise gardens, 137; of king, 200; of successful head-hunters, 212; to propitiate souls of slain foes, 212; of victory, 213; of harvesters, 401, 427, 460; at festival of first-fruits, 486; at burial of the wren, 537; masked, 542 |
| Danger Island, snares for souls in, 187 |
| Danish magic of footprints, 44 |
| Danzig, disposal of cut hair at, 235; last sheaf at harvest at, 400 |
| Daramulun, a mythical being, 692, 693 |
| Darfur, Sultan of, 200; people of, believe the liver to be the seat of the soul, 497 |
| Date-palm, artificial fertilisation of the, 582 |
| Day of Blood, in rites of Attis, 350; of Atonement, 569 |
| De Barros, Portuguese historian, 277 |
| Dead, the, homoeopathic magic of, 30; spirits of, 47; making rain by means of, 71; trees animated by the souls of, 115; sacrifices to, 175; taboos on persons who have handled, 205; names of, tabooed, 251–256; appear to the living in dreams, 256; festival of, 373, 633; worship of, 414; ghosts of, 551 |
| Dead Sunday, 302 |
| Death, pretence of, 16; “carrying out,” 125, 302, 307–316, 577, 613, 614; at ebb tide, 167, 168; mourners forbidden to sleep in a house after a, 182; custom of covering up mirrors after a, 192; from imagination, 204; ritual of, and resurrection, 691–711 |
| Deir el Bahari, paintings at, 142 |
| Deities duplicated through dialectical differences in their names, 164, 165; of vegetation as animals, 464–479 |
| Deity, savage conception of, 92 |
| Demeter, married to Zeus at Eleusis, 142; and Persephone, 393–398, 420; etymology of her name, 399; in relation to the pig, 469; horse-headed, of Phigalia, 471; Black, 471 |
| Demetrius Poliorcetes, deified, 97 |
| Demons, of trees, 116; abduction of souls by, 186; and ghosts averse to iron, 226; deceived by effigies, 492; of disease exorcised, 542; omnipresence of, 546; of cholera, 549, 551; men disguised as, 562; conjured into images, 568 |
| Déné Indians, the, 208 |
| Denmark, Whitsuntide customs in, 133; Yule Boar in, 461; Midsummer fires in, 625 |
| Departmental kings of nature, 106–109 |
| Depilation, 681 |
| Deputy, expedient of dying by, 278, 289 |
| Devil-dancers, 542 |
| Devils. See Demons |
| Devonshire, harvest customs in, 445. |
| Dharmé, the Sun-god, 145 |
| DI, Aryan root meaning “bright,” 164 |
| Diana, 1, 3, 8; the Tauric, 2, 3, 6; goddess of childbirth, 3, 141; goddess of fertility, 139–142, 163; and Dianus, 161–167 |