The Golden Bough : a study of magic and religion

Table of Contents

• Preface
• I. The King of the Wood
• 1. Diana and Virbius
• 2. Artemis and Hippolytus
• 3. Recapitulation
• II. Priestly Kings
• III. Sympathetic Magic
• 1. The Principles of Magic
• 2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
• 3. Contagious Magic
• 4. The Magician’s Progress
• IV. Magic and Religion
• V. The Magical Control of the Weather
• 1. The Public Magician
• 2. The Magical Control of Rain
• 3. The Magical Control of the Sun
• 4. The Magical Control of the Wind
• VI. Magicians as Kings
• VII. Incarnate Human Gods
• VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
• IX. The Worship of Trees
• 1. Tree-spirits
• 2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits
• X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
• XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
• XII. The Sacred Marriage
• 1. Diana as a Goddess of Fertility
• 2. The Marriage of the Gods
• XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
• 1. Numa and Egeria
• 2. The King as Jupiter
• XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
• XV. The Worship of the Oak
• XVI. Dianus and Diana
• XVII. The Burden of Royalty
• 1. Royal and Priestly Taboos
• 2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power
• XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
• 1. The Soul as a Mannikin
• 2. Absence and Recall of the Soul
• 3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection
• XIX. Tabooed Acts
• 1. Taboos on Intercourse with Strangers
• 2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking
• 3. Taboos on Showing the Face
• 4. Taboos on Quitting the House
• 5. Taboos on Leaving Food over
• XX. Tabooed Persons
• 1. Chiefs and Kings tabooed
• 2. Mourners tabooed
• 3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth
• 4. Warriors tabooed
• 5. Manslayers tabooed
• 6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed
• XXI. Tabooed Things
• 1. The Meaning of Taboo
• 2. Iron tabooed
• 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed
• 4. Blood tabooed
• 5. The Head tabooed
• 6. Hair tabooed
• 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting
• 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails
• 9. Spittle tabooed
• 10. Foods tabooed
• 11. Knots and Rings tabooed
• XXII. Tabooed Words
• 1. Personal Names tabooed
• 2. Names of Relations tabooed
• 3. Names of the Dead tabooed
• 4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed
• 5. Names of Gods tabooed
• XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
• XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
• 1. The Mortality of the Gods
• 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails
• 3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term
• XXV. Temporary Kings
• XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
• XXVII. Succession to the Soul
• XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
• 1. The Whitsuntide Mummers
• 2. Burying the Carnival
• 3. Carrying out Death
• 4. Bringing in Summer
• 5. Battle of Summer and Winter
• 6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko
• 7. Death and Revival of Vegetation
• 8. Analogous Rites in India
• 9. The Magic Spring
• XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
• XXX. Adonis in Syria
• XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
• XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
• XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
• XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
• XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
• XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
• XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
• XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
• XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
• 1. The Popular Rites
• 2. The Official Rites
• XL. The Nature of Osiris
• 1. Osiris a Corn-god
• 2. Osiris a Tree-spirit
• 3. Osiris a God of Fertility
• 4. Osiris a God of the Dead
• XLI. Isis
• XLII. Osiris and the Sun
• XLIII. Dionysus
• XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
• XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
• XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
• 1. The Corn-mother in America
• 2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies
• 3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings
• 4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter
• XLVII. Lityerses
• 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers
• 2. Killing the Corn-spirit
• 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops
• 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives
• XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
• 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
• 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog
• 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock
• 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare
• 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat
• 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat
• 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox
• 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare
• 9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow)
• 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
• XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
• 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull
• 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse
• 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig
• 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull
• 5. Virbius and the Horse
• L. Eating the God
• 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits
• 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs
• 3. Many Manii at Aricia
• LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
• LII. Killing the Divine Animal
• 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard
• 2. Killing the Sacred Ram
• 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent
• 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles
• 5. Killing the Sacred Bear
• LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
• LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
• 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament
• 2. Processions with Sacred Animals
• LV. The Transference of Evil
• 1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects
• 2. The Transference to Animals
• 3. The Transference to Men
• 4. The Transference of Evil in Europe
• LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
• 1. The Omnipresence of Demons
• 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils
• 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils
• LVII. Public Scapegoats
• 1. The Expulsion of Embodied Evils
• 2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
• 3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle
• 4. On Scapegoats in General
• LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
• 1. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Rome
• 2. The Human Scapegoat in Ancient Greece
• 3. The Roman Saturnalia
• LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
• LX. Between Heaven and Earth
• 1. Not to touch the Earth
• 2. Not to see the Sun
• 3. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
• 4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty
• LXI. The Myth of Balder
• LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
• 1. The Fire-festivals in general
• 2. The Lenten Fires
• 3. The Easter Fires
• 4. The Beltane Fires
• 5. The Midsummer Fires
• 6. The Hallowe’en Fires
• 7. The Midwinter Fires
• 8. The Need-fire
• LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
• 1. On the Fire-festivals in general
• 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals
• 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals
• LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
• 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires
• 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires
• LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
• LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
• LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
• 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things
• 2. The External Soul in Plants
• 3. The External Soul in Animals
• 4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection
• LXVIII. The Golden Bough
• LXIX. Farewell to Nemi