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The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion

  
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Preface

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Chapter 1. The King of the Wood.
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Chapter 2. Priestly Kings.
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Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic.
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Chapter 4. Magic and Religion.
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Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather.
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Chapter 6. Magicians as Kings.
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Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods.
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Chapter 8. Departmental Kings of Nature.
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Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees.
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Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe.
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Chapter 11. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation.
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Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage.
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Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba.
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Chapter 14. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium.
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Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak.
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Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana.
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Chapter 17. The Burden of Royalty.
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Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul.
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Chapter 19. Tabooed Acts.
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Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons.
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Chapter 21. Tabooed Things.
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Section 1. The Meaning of Taboo.
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Section 2. Iron tabooed.
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Section 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed.
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Section 4. Blood tabooed.
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Section 5. The Head tabooed.
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Section 6. Hair tabooed.
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Section 7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting.
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Section 8. Disposal of Cut Hair and Nails.
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Section 9. Spittle tabooed.
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Section 10. Foods tabooed.
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Section 11. Knots and Rings tabooed.
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Chapter 22. Tabooed Words.
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Chapter 23. Our Debt to the Savage.
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Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King.
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Chapter 25. Temporary Kings.
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Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King's Son.
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Chapter 27. Succession to the Soul.
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Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit.
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Chapter 29. The Myth of Adonis.
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Chapter 30. Adonis in Syria.
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Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus.
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Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis.
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Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis.
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Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis.
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Chapter 35. Attis as a God of Vegetation.
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Chapter 36. Human Representatives of Attis.
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Chapter 37. Oriental Religions in the West.
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Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris.
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Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris.
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Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris.
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Chapter 41. Isis.
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Chapter 42. Osiris and the Sun.
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Chapter 43. Dionysus.
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Chapter 44. Demeter and Persephone.
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Chapter 45. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe.
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Chapter 46. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands.
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Chapter 47. Lityerses.
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Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal.
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Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.
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Chapter 50. Eating the God.
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Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet.
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Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal.
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Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters.
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Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament.
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Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil.
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Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils.
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Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats.
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Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity.
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Chapter 59. Killing the God in Mexico.
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Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth.
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Chapter 61. The Myth of Balder.
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Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe.
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Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals.
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Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires.
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Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe.
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Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales.
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Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom.
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Chapter 68. The Golden Bough.
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Chapter 69. Farewell to Nemi.

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THE GOLDEN BOUGH

A Study in Magic and Religion

By

Sir James Frazer, F.R.S., F.B.A.

Hon. D.C.L., Oxford; Hon. LITT.D., Cambridge and Durham;
Hon. L.L.D., Glasgow; Doctor Honoris Causa of the
Universities of Paris and Strasbourg


1 Volume, Abridged Edition


New York
The Macmillan Company
1922

Copyright, 1922
By The Macmillan Company
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