The Golden Bough
James George Frazer
A study of magic and religion
- Preface
- The King of the Wood
- Priestly Kings
- Sympathetic Magic
- Magic and Religion
- The Magical Control of the Weather
- Magicians as Kings
- Incarnate Human Gods
- Departmental Kings of Nature
- The Worship of Trees
- Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
- The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
- The Sacred Marriage
- The Kings of Rome and Alba
- The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
- The Worship of the Oak
- Dianus and Diana
- The Burden of Royalty
- The Perils of the Soul
- Tabooed Acts
- Tabooed Persons
- Tabooed Things
- Tabooed Words
- Our Debt to the Savage
- The Killing of the Divine King
- Temporary Kings
- Sacrifice of the King’s Son
- Succession to the Soul
- The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
- The Myth of Adonis
- Adonis in Syria
- Adonis in Cyprus
- The Ritual of Adonis
- The Gardens of Adonis
- The Myth and Ritual of Attis
- Attis as a God of Vegetation
- Human Representatives of Attis
- Oriental Religions in the West
- The Myth of Osiris
- The Ritual of Osiris
- The Nature of Osiris
- Isis
- Osiris and the Sun
- Dionysus
- Demeter and Persephone
- The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
- The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
- Lityerses
- The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
- Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
- Eating the God
- Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
- Killing the Divine Animal
- The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
- Types of Animal Sacrament
- The Transference of Evil
- The Public Expulsion of Evils
- Public Scapegoats
- Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
- Killing the God in Mexico
- Between Heaven and Earth
- The Myth of Balder
- The Fire-Festivals of Europe
- The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
- The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
- Balder and the Mistletoe
- The External Soul in Folk-Tales
- The External Soul in Folk-Custom
- The Golden Bough
- Farewell to Nemi
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