Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Egypt, ancient, theocratic despotism of, 48; magicians in, 52, 261; confusion of magic and religion in, 53; ceremonies for the regulation of the sun, 78; kings blamed for the failure of the crops in, 87; sacred beast responsible for the course of nature in, 87; human gods in, 96, 265; kings of, 104, 142, 174, 238, 333, 378; queen of, 142; personal names in, 245; reapers’ lamentations and invocations to Isis in, 338, 371, 424, 443, 444; sacrifice of red-haired men in, 378, 379; human sacrifices in, 443; religious attitude to pigs in, 472; rams, sacred in, 500; bulls as scapegoats in, 571; story of the external soul in, 674 |
| ——, Lower, Sais in, 373 |
| ——, Upper, temporary kings in, 286 |
| Egyptian calendar, 368; festivals, 368, 369; religion, 370; types of sacrament, 532–535 |
| Elders, council of, in savage communities, 47 |
| Elephant hunters, 23, 594 |
| Elephants, ceremonies observed at the slaughter of, 522, 524; lives of persons bound up with those of, 685 |
| Eleusine grain, 483 |
| Eleusinian mysteries, 142, 393–395, 397, 398; priests, 259 |
| Eleusis, rites of Demeter at, 376, 397; Demeter at, 393; Rarian plain at, 394 |
| Elfin race averse to iron, 226 |
| Elipandus of Toledo, 101 |
| Elis, Dionysus hailed as a bull by the women of, 390 |
| Elisha, the prophet, 334 |
| Elk clan of the Omaha Indians, 474 |
| Embalming as a means of prolonging the life of the soul, 265 |
| Emblica officinalis sacred in Northern India, 119 |
| Emin Pasha, 196 |
| Empedocles, his claim to divinity, 96 |
| Emu-wrens, 689 |
| Encounter Bay tribe, 603 |
| Endymion, 4, 156 |
| England, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; anointing the weapon instead of the wound in, 42; May-trees and May-bushes in, 121; village May-poles in, 123; Jack-in-the-Green in, 129; undoing locks and bolts at a death in, 243; Harvest Queen in, 405; harvest customs in, 406, 459, 460; killing the wren in, 536; the Yule log in, 637; the mistletoe in, 662, 663; birth-trees in, 682; cure for rupture or rickets in, 682 |
| Epilepsy transferred to leaves, 539 |
| Epiphany, 359, 462, 561 |
| Ergamenes, king of Meroe, 266 |
| Erman, Professor, 377 |
| Escouvion or Scouvion, in Belgium, 610 |
| Esne, festal calendar of, 373 |
| Esquimaux, 20, 82, 179, 244, 317, 529; of Alaska, 551, 679; of Baffin Land, 552; of Bering Strait, 193, 220, 221, 227, 526, 606; of Iglulik, 79 |
| Esthonia, Shrove Tuesday customs in, 315; harvest customs in, 456, 460; Christmas Boar in, 462; Midsummer fires in, 628 |
| Esthonians, 81, 225, 228, 307, 481, 530 |
| Ethiopia, kings of, 200, 273 |
| Eubuleus, legendary swine-herd, 469, 470 |
| Eucharist, 488 |
| Eudoxus of Cnidus, 474 |
| Eunuch priests, 349, 352 |
| Europe, dancing or leaping high to make crops grow in, 28; the Hand of Glory in, 30; belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; treatment of the navel-string and after-birth in, 40; contagious magic in, 44; confusion of magic and religion in, 53, 54; belief in magic in modern, 56; rain-making ceremonies in, 69; the May-pole or May-tree in, 119, 120; Midsummer festival in modern, 153; fear of having one’s likeness taken in, 194; belief as to consummation of marriage being impeded by locks and knots, 240; the Corn-mother in Northern, 399–412; comparison between the Lityerses story and harvest customs in, 426–431; “hunting the wren” in, 536; transference of evil in, 543–546; annual expulsion of demons among the heathen of, 559; annual expulsion of witches in Central, 560; expulsion of embodied evils in, 568; the mistletoe in, 661; superstitions as to menstruous women in, 606; fire-festivals of, 609–641; Midsummer fires in, 622; need-fire in, 638 |
| Evil, transference of, 538–546; to animals, 540–542; to men, 542–543; in Europe, 543–546 |
| Evils, expulsion of, public, 546; occasional, 547; periodic, 551; embodied, 562; occasional, in a material vehicle, 563; periodic, in a material vehicle, 568 |
| Ewe-speaking peoples of the Slave Coast, the, 112, 198; taboos observed by their kings, 172 |
| Exogamy, 152 |
| Eyeos, the, 172, 273 |
| Ezekiel, the prophet, 327 |
| Face, of sleeper not to be painted or disfigured, 183; taboos on showing the, 199; of human scapegoat painted half white, half black, 573 |
| Faces, veiled to avert evil influences, 200; blackened, 213, 462 |
| Faditras among the Malagasy, 541 |
| Fairies, averse to iron, 226 |
| Falling sickness transferred to fowls, 545; mistletoe a remedy for, 662 |
| Fan tribe, the, 85 |
| Fans of the Gaboon, 684; of West Africa, 495 |
| Fans in homoeopathic magic, 26 |
| Fasting obligatory, 23, 26; of Catholics, 488; of girls at puberty, 600, 601 |
| Father, called after his child, 247; and mother, names not to be mentioned, 250; of a god, 333, 334 |
| Father-in-law, his name not to be mentioned, 249–251 |
| Father May, 126, 127 |
| Fatigue transferred to leaves, 540 |
| Fauns, rustic Italian gods, 464 |
| Fazoql, kings of, 266 |
| Feast of All Souls, 633; of yams, 200 |
| Feet of enemies eaten, 498 |