Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
“Diana’s Mirror,” 1, 711 |
Dianus and Diana, 161–167 |
Dieri of Central Australia, the, 64, 65, 115, 548, 603 |
Dinkas, the, 269, 565 |
Diodorus Siculus, 365 |
Dione, wife of Zeus at Dodona, 151; the old consort of Zeus, 165 |
Dionysus, 142, 265, 378; god of the vine, 386; god of trees, 387; the Flowery, 387; god of agriculture and the corn, 387; and the winnowing fan, 388; horned, 390; live animals rent in the rites of, 390, 391; as a goat, 390, 464; human sacrifices in his rites, 392; torn in pieces at Thebes, 392; as a bull, 464, 465; relations to Pans, Satyrs, and Silenuses, 464; his resurrection perhaps enacted in his rites, 468 |
Disease, demons of, expelled, 196, 542; transferred to other people and to effigies, 539; sent away in little ships, 563 |
Divination, 256, 634, 635 |
Divine animal, killing the, 499; as scape-goat, 570, 576 |
“Divine Consort, the,” 142 |
Divine Husbandman, in China, 468 |
Divining rods, 705 |
Divinities, human, bound by many rules, 262 |
Divinity of kings, 162; growth of the conception of the, 162, 163 |
Divorce of spiritual from temporal power, 175–178 |
Dobrizhoffer, Father M., 254, 255 |
Dodona, oracular spring at, 147; Zeus and Dione at, 151; oracular oak at, 159 |
Dodwell, E., 397 |
Dog, black, sacrificed for rain, 73; used to stop rain, 75; prohibition to touch or name, 174; corn-spirit as, 448; of the harvest, 449 |
Dogs crowned, 3 |
Dollar-bird associated with rain, 72 |
Donar or Thunar, German thunder-god, 160 |
Doors opened to facilitate childbirth, 239; to facilitate death, 243 |
Dos Santos, J., 97 |
Dosuma, king of, 593 |
Doves, external soul in, 670; Aeneas led to the Golden Bough by, 703 |
Dragon, rain-god represented as, 74; or serpent of water, 146; at Midsummer, effigy of, 655 |
Dramas, magical, 140, 324; sacred, 374 |
Dreams, absence of soul in, 181; belief of savages in the reality of, 181; festival of, 553 |
Drenching people with water as a raincharm, 69, 70, 341, 342 |
“Drink, Black,” an emetic, 486 |
Drinking and eating, taboos on, 198, 199; modes of drinking for tabooed persons, 199, 208, 211, 219 |
Drought, supposed to be caused by the unburied dead, 72; chiefs and kings punished for, 86; supposed to be caused by a concealed miscarriage, 209 |
Druidica festivals, so-called, 617 |
Druids, 110, 249, 653, 654, 657, 659; of Ireland, 621; and the mistletoe, 709, 710 |
Duchesne, Mgr., 360 |
Dugong fishing, taboos in connection with, 217 |
Dulyn, the tarn of, on Snowdon, 76 |
Dunkirk, the Follies of, 654 |
Durian-tree, the, 113 |
Dusuns of Borneo, the, 225, 566 |
Dyaks, of Borneo, 14, 16, 25, 182, 248, 249, 413, 496, 518; of Landak, 682; of Pinoeh, 679; of Sarawak, 498; Sea, 239, 531; of Tajan, 682 |
Eagle, the bird of Jove, 149 |
Eagle-hunters, 21, 22 |
Eagle-owl worshipped by the Ainos, 515 |
Earth, inspired priestess of, 94; marriage of the Sun and, 145; image of, praying to Zeus for rain, 159; Lithuanian prayers to the, 480; the priest of, 594 |
Earth demons, 492; goddess, 396, 434–437 |
Earthworms eaten by dancing girl, 497 |
East, ascetic idealism of the, 139 |
East Indian Islands, magic in the, 18, 21; epilepsy transferred to leaves in the, 539; demons of sickness expelled in little ships, 564 |
East Indies, pregnant women forbidden to tie knots, 238; reluctance of persons to tell their own names, 246; bringing back the Soul of the Rice, 372; the Rice-mother in the, 413 |
Easter, resemblance of the festival of, to the rites of Adonis, 345; assimilated to the spring festival of Attis, 359; controversy as to the origin of, 361 |
Easter Eve, ceremonies on, 400, 560; Saturday new fire on 614; Sunday ceremony observed by gypsies on, 568; Monday, festival on, 126; candle, 614; fires, 614 |
Eating, out of sacred vessels, 169; together, 202; and drinking, taboos on, 198; eating the god, 479–494, 498; the soul of the rice, 482 |
Ebb tide, death at, 35 |
Eclipse, ceremonies at an, 78 |
Ecuador, human sacrifices in, 431 |
Edgewell Tree, the, 682 |
Effigies, 468, 491, 492, 539, 568, 609, 612–614, 622, 624, 625, 630, 648, 650, 655, 658; of Carnival, 302; of Death, 307, 311; of Judas, 615; of Kupalo, Kostroma, and Yarilo, 318; of Osiris, 376, 382; of Shrove Tuesday, 305 |
Efugaos, the, of the Philippines, 498 |
Egbas, the, of West Africa, 273 |
Egeria, water-nymph, 4, 8, 147, 151, 152, 164 |
Egerius Baebius or Laevius, 5 |
Egg-shells, the breaking of, 201 |
Egypt, the Nativity of the Sun at the winter solstice in, 358; in early June, 369; the gods flee into, 391; the corn-spirit in, 443 |