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The Golden Bough A Study of Magic and Religion, by Sir James George Frazer

I. The King of the Wood

2. Artemis and Hippolytus

II. Priestly Kings

III. Sympathetic Magic

2. Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic

3. Contagious Magic

4. The Magician’s Progress

IV. Magic and Religion

V. The Magical Control of the Weather

2. The Magical Control of Rain

3. The Magical Control of the Sun

4. The Magical Control of the Wind

VI. Magicians as Kings

VII. Incarnate Human Gods

VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature

IX. The Worship of Trees

2. Beneficent Powers of Tree-Spirits

X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe

XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

XII. The Sacred Marriage

2. The Marriage of the Gods

XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba

2. The King as Jupiter

XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium

XV. The Worship of the Oak

XVI. Dianus and Diana

XVII. The Burden of Royalty

2. Divorce of the Spiritual from the Temporal Power

XVIII. The Perils of the Soul

2. Absence and Recall of the Soul

3. The Soul as a Shadow and a Reflection

XIX. Tabooed Acts

2. Taboos on Eating and Drinking

4. Taboos on Quitting the House

XX. Tabooed Persons

2. Mourners tabooed

3. Women tabooed at Menstruation and Childbirth

4. Warriors tabooed

5. Manslayers tabooed

6. Hunters and Fishers tabooed

XXI. Tabooed Things

3. Sharp Weapons tabooed

5. The Head tabooed

7. Ceremonies at Hair-cutting

9. Spittle tabooed

11. Knots and Rings tabooed

XXII. Tabooed Words

2. Names of Relations tabooed

3. Names of the Dead tabooed

4. Names of Kings and other Sacred Persons tabooed

5. Names of Gods tabooed

XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage

XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King

3. Kings killed at the End of a Fixed Term

XXV. Temporary Kings

XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son

XXVII. Succession to the Soul

XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit

2. Burying the Carnival

3. Carrying out Death

4. Bringing in Summer

5. Battle of Summer and Winter

7. Death and Revival of Vegetation

9. The Magic Spring

XXIX. The Myth of Adonis

XXX. Adonis in Syria

XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus

XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis

XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis

XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis

XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation

XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis

XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West

XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris

XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris

2. The Official Rites

XL. The Nature of Osiris

2. Osiris a Tree-spirit

4. Osiris a God of the Dead

XLI. Isis

XLII. Osiris and the Sun

XLIII. Dionysus

XLIV. Demeter and Persephone

XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe

XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands

3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings

4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter

XLVII. Lityerses

2. Killing the Corn-spirit

3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops

4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives

XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal

3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock

4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare

7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox

8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare

10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit

XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals

2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse

3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig

5. Virbius and the Horse

L. Eating the God

2. Eating the God among the Aztecs

3. Many Manii at Aricia

LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet

LII. Killing the Divine Animal

2. Killing the Sacred Ram

5. Killing the Sacred Bear

LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters

LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament

2. Processions with Sacred Animals

LV. The Transference of Evil

2. The Transference to Animals

3. The Transference to Men

LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils

3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils

LVII. Public Scapegoats

3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils in a Material Vehicle

4. On Scapegoats in General

LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity

3. The Roman Saturnalia

LIX. Killing the God in Mexico

LX. Between Heaven and Earth

2. Not to see the Sun

4. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty

LXI. The Myth of Balder

LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe

3. The Easter Fires

4. The Beltane Fires

5. The Midsummer Fires

6. The Hallowe’en Fires

7. The Midwinter Fires

8. The Need-fire

LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals

2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals

3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals

LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires

2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires

LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe

LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales

LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom

2. The External Soul in Plants

3. The External Soul in Animals

4. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection

LXVIII. The Golden Bough

LXIX. Farewell to Nemi