Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Sieve, water poured through, as a raincharm, 71 |
| Sikkim, fear of the camera in, 193 |
| Silenuses, minor deities associated with Dionysus, 464 |
| Silesia, Whitsuntide King in, 129; Whitsuntide customs in, 132; “carrying out Death” in, 309–311, 314, 614; bringing in Summer, 311; the Grandmother at harvest in, 401; names given to last sheaf in, 402; the Wheat Bride at harvest in, 409; harvest customs in, 428, 449, 451, 453, 457; expulsion of witches and evil spirits in, 560, 561; needfire in, 640 |
| Silk-cotton trees reverenced, 112 |
| Silkworms, taboos observed by breeders of, 218 |
| Silvanus, the Roman wood-god, 140, 141 |
| Silvii, family name of kings of Alba, 149, 163 |
| Simeon, prince of Bulgaria, 680 |
| Similarity in magic, law of, 11 |
| Singarmati Deva, Indian goddess, 218 |
| Singhalese, the, 226 |
| Sins, confession of, 198, 217, 540, 541–542, 553, 569; the remission of, through the shedding of blood, 356; transferred to a buffalo calf, 541; transferred vicariously to human beings, 542; of the Children of Israel transferred to scapegoat, 569 |
| Sioux Indians, 497 |
| Sirius, the Dog-star, 370, 384 |
| Sisters, taboos observed by, 23, 25 |
| Situa, annual festival of the Incas, 553 |
| Siva and Pârvatî, marriage of the images of, 320 |
| Skeat, W. W., 417 |
| Skeleton drenched with water as a ra n-charm, 71 |
| Skin disease caused by eating a sacred animal, 473 |
| Skins of sacrificed animals, uses made of, 466, 477, 499–501, 529; of human victims, 591 |
| Skipping-rope played at bear-festival, 512 |
| Skulls, of head-hunters’ victims preserved as relics, 433; of bears and foxes worshipped and consulted as oracles, 505; of turtles propitiated, 526 |
| Sky, twins called children of the, 67; observation of the, for omens, 279 |
| Skye, last sheaf called the Cripple Goat in, 455; the need-fire in, 618 |
| Slave, charm to bring back a runaway, 31 |
| Slave priest at Nemi, 3 |
| Slave Coast of West Africa, negroes of the, 116; exorcism of demons from children on the, 196, 226; precautions as to the spittle of kings on the, 237 |
| Slaves, license granted to, at the Saturnalia, 158, 583 |
| Slavonia, harvest customs in, 404; the Corn-spirit in, 448; custom of “carrying out Death” in, 578; the Yule log in, 638; need-fire in, 641; stories of the external soul in, 671 |
| Slavonians, South, 30, 32, 114, 119, 649. See also Slavs |
| Slavs, 110, 161, 278, 302, 400, 649, 665; of Carinthia, 126; South, 44, 636 |
| Sleep, charms to cause, 30; absence of the soul in, 181–182; forbidden in house after a death, 182; sick people not allowed to, 193 |
| Slovenes, 128; of Oberkrain, 134 |
| Smallpox, 493; demon of, transferred to a sow, 540; blood of monkey used to exorcise the devil of, 549; flight from the evil spirit of, 550; demon of, expelled by means of an image, 563; expelled in a boat, 564 |
| Smith’s craft sacred, 86 |
| Smoke, in rain-making, 73; of cedar inhaled as means of inspiration, 95; of bonfires, 612, 622, 645; of need-fire, 640; used to stupefy witches in the clouds, 650 |
| Smoking as a means of inducing a state of ecstasy, 484; in honour of slain bears, 522 |
| Snail supposed to suck blood of cattle, 190 |
| Snake, used in rain-charm, 72; respected by Indians of Carolina, 519; worshipped, 535; said to wound a girl at puberty, 601; seven-headed, external soul of witch in a, 676 |
| Snake-bite, charm against, 32; clan, exposed infants to snakes, 502; -god, married to women, 145; -stone, 34; tribe, in the Punjaub, 535 |
| Snipe, fever transferred to a, 545 |
| Snorri Sturluson, 379 |
| Sochit or Sochet, epithet of Isis, 383 |
| Society, uniformity of occupation in primitive, 61; ancient, built on the principle of subordination of the individual to the community, 357 |
| Sofala, kings of, put to death, 272 |
| Sogamosa or Sogamoza, the pontiff of, 104; heir to the throne not allowed to see the sun, 595 |
| Sokari (Seker), a title of Osiris, 375 |
| Solar theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, 642, 643 |
| Solomon Islands, the, disposal of cut hair in, 235; ceremony for getting rid of fatigue in, 540 |
| Solstice, the summer, its importance for primitive man, 622; the winter, reckoned by the ancients the Nativity of the Sun, 358 |
| Solstitial fires perhaps rain-charms, 706 |
| Son of God, alleged incarnation of the, in America, 102; of the king, sacrificed for his father, 289 |
| Songs of the corn-reapers, 424 |
| Sopater accused of binding the winds, 81 |
| Sorcerers, 84, 233, 235, 236; souls extracted or detained by, 187, 188; influence wielded by, 196; injure men through their names, 245; exorcise demons, 548 |
| Sorcery, the dread of, 233, 691; protections against, 621, 629, 663 |
| Sorrowful One, vaults of the, 371 |
| Sothis, Egyptian name for Sirius, 370 |
| Soul, the perils of the, 178; as a mannikin, 178; absence and recall of the, 180; as a shadow and a reflection, 189–192; in the blood, 228, 230; identified with the personal name, 244; of man-god, 265; succession to the, 293–295; of the rice, 413, 415; thought to be seated in the liver, 497; the notion of a, 690; the unity and indivisibility of the, 690. See also Souls |
| ——, the external, in folk-tales, 667–678; in inanimate things, 679; in plants, 681; in animals, 683; kept in totem, 690 |
| Soul-boxes, amulets as, 679–680; -stone, 680 |