The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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The Golden Bough

A Study in Magic and Religion

By

James George Frazer, Kt., D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Liverpool

Third Edition, Revised and Enlarged

Vol. XII. of XII.

Bibliography and General Index

New York and London

MacMillan and Co.

1920

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Preface

The following Bibliography aims at giving a complete list of the authorities cited in the third edition of The Golden Bough. Such a list may be of use to readers who desire to have further information on any of the topics discussed or alluded to in the text. It has been compiled by Messrs. R. & R. Clark's Press Reader from the references in my footnotes to the volumes, and it has been revised and corrected by me in proof. The titles of works which I have not seen but have cited at second hand are distinguished by an asterisk prefixed to them. Throughout the book I have endeavoured to indicate the distinction clearly by the manner of my citation, but lest any ambiguity should remain I have thought it well to mark the difference precisely in the Bibliography. In the case of Greek and Latin authors the editions which I have commonly used are generally noted in the Bibliography; they are for the most part those which I possess in my own library and have consulted for the sake of convenience.

The General Index incorporates the separate indices to the volumes, but as some of these, especially in the earlier volumes, were somewhat meagre, I have made large additions to them in order to bring up the whole to a uniform standard and to facilitate the use of the book as a work of reference. With this clue in his hand the student, I hope, will be able to find his way through the labyrinth of facts. All the entries have been made by me, but the arrangement of [pg vi] them is in the main due to the Press Reader, whom I desire to thank for the diligence and accuracy with which he has performed his laborious task. The whole Index has been repeatedly revised and freely corrected by me in proof.

In conclusion it is my duty as well as pleasure to thank my publishers, Messrs. Macmillan & Company, for the never-failing confidence, courtesy, and liberality with which they have treated me during the many years in which The Golden Bough has been in progress. From first to last they have laid me under no restrictions whatever, but have left me perfectly free to plan and execute the work on the scale and in the manner I judged best. Their patience has been inexhaustible and their courage in facing the pecuniary risks unwavering. My printers also, Messrs. R. & R. Clark of Edinburgh, have done their part to my entire satisfaction; they have promptly responded to every call I have made on them for increased speed, and with regard to accuracy I will only say that in the scrutiny to which I have subjected the book for the purpose of the Index I have detected many errors of my own, but few or none of theirs. Publishers and printers can do much to help or hinder an author's work. Mine have done everything that could be done to render my labours as light and as pleasant as possible. I thank them sincerely and gratefully for their help, and I reflect with pleasure on the relations of unbroken cordiality which have existed between us for more than a quarter of a century.

J. G. Frazer.

1 Brick Court, Temple,
25th January 1915.

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The Roman numerals (i., ii., iii., etc.) refer to the volumes; the Arabic numbers (1, 2, 3, etc.) refer to the pages. The volumes of the work are cited by the following numerals:—

i. = The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, vol. i.
ii. = " " " vol. ii.
iii. = Taboo and the Perils of the Soul.
iv. = The Dying God.
v. = Adonis, Attis, Osiris, Third Edition, vol. i.
vi. = " " " vol. ii.
vii. = Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, vol. i.
viii. = " " " vol. ii.
ix. = The Scapegoat.
x. = Balder the Beautiful, vol. i.
xi. = " " vol. ii.
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Aachen, effigy burnt on Ash Wednesday at, x. 120, xi. 25
Aargau, Swiss canton of, the Whitsuntide Basket in, ii. 83;
Lenten fire-custom in, x. 119;
superstition as to oak-mistletoe in, xi. 82;
mistletoe called “thunder-besom” in, xi. 85, 301;
birth-trees in, xi. 165
Ab, a Jewish month, equivalent to August, i. 14, vii. 259 n. 1
Ababa, a tribe of the Congo region, believe that their souls transmigrate at death into animals, viii. 288 sq.
Ababua, the, of the Congo valley, their belief as to falling stars, iv. 65
Aban, a Persian month, vi. 68
Abbas Effendi, divine head of the Babites, i. 402
Abbas the Great, Shah of Persia, temporary substitute for, iv. 157
Abbehausen, fever transferred to dog and cat at, ix. 51
Abbeville, huge trunks of oak in the peat-bog near, ii. 351
Abbot of Folly in France, ix. 334
—— of Unreason in Scotland, ix. 312, 331
Abchases of the Caucasus, their ceremony of rain-making, i. 282 n. 4;
their worship of the thunder-god, ii. 370;
their memorial feasts, iv. 98, 103;
their use of effigies as substitutes to save the lives of people, viii. 105;
their sacrament of shepherds, viii. 313;
their sacrifice of white ox, viii. 313 n. 1
Abd-Hadad, priestly king of Hierapolis, v. 163 n. 3
Abdera, human scapegoats at, ix. 254
Abdication of kings in favour of their infant children, iii. 19, 20;
during the reign of their substitutes, iv. 115;
annual, of kings, iv. 148;
of father when his son is grown up, iv. 181;
of the king on the birth of a son, iv. 190;
temporary, of chief, viii. 66, 68
Abduction of souls by demons, iii. 58 sqq.
Abeghian, Manuk, on the belief of the Armenians in demons, ix. 107 sq.;
on creeping through cleft trees in Armenia, xi. 172
Abensberg in Bavaria, burning the Easter Man at, x. 144
Abeokuta, in West Africa, the Alake (king) of, iv. 203;
his head kept and delivered to his successor, iv. 203;
use of bull-roarers at, xi. 229 n.
Aber, the Lake of, in Upper Austria, xi. 189
Aberdeenshire, All Souls' Day in, vi. 79 sq.;
harvest customs in, vii. 158 sqq., 215 sq., x. 12;
need-fire in, x. 296;
holed rock used by childless women in, xi. 187
Aberdour, parish of, in Aberdeenshire, the cutting of the clyack sheath in, vii. 158 sqq.
Aberfeldy, Hallowe'en fires near, x. 232
Abi-baal, “father of Baal,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-el, “father of El,” v. 51 n. 4
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Abi-jah, King, his family, v. 51 n. 2;
“father of Jehovah,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-melech, “father of a king,” v. 51 n. 4
Abi-milk (Abi-melech), king of Tyre, v. 16 n. 5
Abimelech massacres his seventy brothers, v. 51 n. 2
Abingdon in Berkshire, May carols and garlands at, ii. 60
Abipones, the, of South America thought it sinful to mention their own names, iii. 328;
the dead not named among the, iii. 352;
changes in their language caused by the fear of naming the dead, iii. 360;
their belief as to meteors, iv. 63;
their worship of the Pleiades, v. 258 n. 2, vii. 308;
ate jaguars to become brave, viii. 140
Abjuration, form of, imposed on Jewish converts, ix. 393
Abnormal mental states accounted inspiration, iii. 248
Abolition of the kingship at Rome, ii. 289 sqq.
Abomey, the old capital of Dahomey, iv. 40
Abonsam, an evil spirit on the Gold Coast, ix. 132
Aborigines retained as priests of the local gods by conquering races, ii. 288;
of Victoria, their custom as to emu fat, x. 13
Abortion, superstition as to woman who has procured, iii. 153
Abougit, Father X., S.J., on the ceremony of the new fire at Jerusalem, x. 130
Abraham, his attempted sacrifice of Isaac, iv. 177, vi. 219 n. 1
—— and Sarah, ii. 114
——, the Pool of, at Ourfa, i. 285
Abrahams, Israel, on the Purim bonfires, ix. 393 n. 2
Abruzzi, barren fruit-trees threatened in the, ii. 22;
belief as to falling stars in the, iv. 66, 67;
burning an effigy of the Carnival in the, iv. 224;
seven-legged effigy of Lent in the, iv. 244 sq.;
gossips of St. John in the, v. 245 n. 2;
marvellous properties attributed to water on St. John's Night in the, v. 246;
Easter ceremonies in the, v. 256;
the feast of All Souls in the, vi. 77 sq.;
rules as to sowing seed and cutting timber in the, vi. 133 n. 3;
Epiphany in the, ix. 167 n. 2;
new Easter fire in the, x. 122;
water consecrated at Easter in the, x. 122 sqq.;
Midsummer rites of fire and water in the, x. 209 sq.
Absalom, his intercourse with his father's concubines, ix. 368
Absence and recall of the soul, iii. 30 sqq.
Absites, the, iii. 312
Absrot, village of Bohemia, precaution against witches on Walpurgis Night at, ix. 161
Abstinence, periods of, observed before sowing, ii. 98, 105;
as a charm to promote the growth of the seed, ix. 347 sqq.
Abstract notions, the personification of, not primitive, iv. 253
Abu 'Ilberecat, a Berber, ii. 153 sq.
Abu Rabah, resort of childless wives in Palestine, v. 78, 79
Abuse (vituperation), beneficial virtue ascribed to, i. 279 sq.
Abydos, head of Osiris at, vi. 11;
the favourite burial-place of the Egyptians, vi. 18 sq.;
specially associated with Osiris, vi. 18, 197;
tombs of the ancient Egyptian kings at, vi. 19;
the ritual of, vi. 86;
hall of the Osirian mysteries at, vi. 108;
representations of the Sed festival at, vi. 151;
inscriptions at, vi. 153;
temple of Osiris at, vi. 198;
ancient shrine of Osiris at, vii. 260 n. 2
Abyssinia, rain-making in, i. 258;
rain-making priests among tribes on the borders of, ii. 2 sq.;
Tigre-speaking tribes to the north of, ii. 19;
fear of the evil eye in, iii. 116;
severed hands and feet preserved against the resurrection in, iii. 281;
personal names concealed in, iii. 322;
the Kamants of, iv. 12;
sacrifice of first-born children among tribes on the borders of, iv. 181 sq.;
the Faleshas of, viii. 266 n. 1
Abyssinian festival of Mascal or the Cross, ix. 133 sq.
Acacia, Osiris in the, vi. 111;
the heart in the flower of the, xi. 135 sq.
—— -tree, worshipped in Patagonia, ii. 16;
sacred in Arabia, ii. 42
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