Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Marquesas or Washington Islands, human gods in the, 96
Marriage, of men and women to trees, 8; treading on a stone at, 33; the pole-star at, 34; of the Sun and Earth, 136, 145; the Sacred, 139–146; of the Gods, 142–145; consummation of, prevented by knots, 240; mock or real, of human victims, 581
Melanesia, homoeopathic magic of stones in, 33; contagious magic of wounds in, 41; confusion of magic and religion in, 52; supernatural power of chiefs in, 84; continence while yam vines are being trained in, 138; malignant spirits in, 192; disposal of cut hair and nails in, 235; names of relations by marriage tabooed in, 251; conception of the external soul in, 684
Mexico, ancient, festival in honour of the goddess of maize, 28; treatment of the navel-string in, 40; human sacrifices in, 380, 431, 432; killing the god in, 587–592
Mice, in magic, 39; eaten by the Jews as a religious rite, 472; superstitious precautions of farmers against, 530, 531
Midsummer, death of the spirit of vegetation celebrated at, 319; bonfire at, called “fire of heaven,” 644; procession of giants at, 654; sacred to Balder, 664
Midsummer bonfires, 122, 622. See also Midsummer fires
Milk, women’s, promoted by milk-stones, 34; of cows, thought to be promoted by green boughs, 119; customs observed when the king of Bunyoro drinks, 199; of pig thought to cause leprosy, 472, 473; omens from boiling, 482; taboos referring to, 488; not to be drunk by menstruous women, 604; stolen by witches from cows, 620, 627, 628, 648
