Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Religion, and magic, 48–60, 64, 90, 92, 162, 324, 711; defined, 50; two elements of, a theoretical and a practical, 50; and science, 51, 712; the Age of, 56; transition from magic to, 57; and music, 334, 335
Resurrection, 236; of the god, 300, 386; of the tree-spirit, 300; of a god in the hunting, pastoral, and agricultural stages of society, 301; enacted in Shrovetide and Lenten ceremonies, 307; of the effigy of Death, 312; of the Carnival, 315; of the Wild Man, 315; of Kostrubonko, 317; of Attis, 350, 360; of Osiris, 374, 376; of Dionysus, 468; of animals, 516, 529; of fish, 527; divine, in Mexican ritual, 592; ritual of death and, 691–701
Rice, in homoeopathic magic, 28, 29; in bloom treated like a pregnant woman, 115, 414; used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, 181, 184; in water, divination by, 256; soul of, 413–415, 417; two sheaves as “husband and wife,” 418; (paddy) father and mother of the, 419; “eating the soul of the rice,” 482; the new, ceremonies at eating, 482
Rings to prevent the escape of the soul, 180; as amulets, 226, 243; as spiritual fetters, 243; and knots tabooed, 238–244
Ritual, of Adonis, 335–341; of Attis, 347–352; of Dionysus, 389; primitive, marks of, 411; magical or propitiatory, 411; myths dramatised in, 608; of death and resurrection, 691–701
Romans, sacrificed pregnant victims to ensure fertility, 28; the ancient, their ceremonies for procuring rain, 77, 78; superstition as to egg-shells, 201; cutting hair or nails on shipboard, 234; superstitious objection to clasped hands or crossed legs, 240; belief in the magic virtue of divine names, 261; adopt the worship of the Phrygian Mother of the Gods, 348; their sacrifice of redhaired puppies, 444, 476; their cure for fever, 543; deemed sacred the places struck by lightning, 709
Rome, the Sacrificial King at, 9, 106; rainmaking in, 78, 149; sacred trees in, 111; kings of, 146–151; King and Queen of, 147, 151; founded by settlers from Alba Longa, 148; descent of the kingship in, 152; Midsummer festival in ancient, 153, 154; priests in, 224; name of guardian deity kept secret, 262; Regifugium at, 301; Phrygian Mother of the Gods brought to, 348; Festival of Joy (Hilaria) at, 350–351; sacrifice of she-goat to Vedijovis at, 392; annual sacrifice of October horse at, 478; festival of the Compitalia at, 491; the Mother and Grandmother of Ghosts at, 491–493; human scapegoats in ancient, 577; Saturnalia at, 583; sacred fire of Vesta at, 665
Russia, thieves’ candles in, 56; rain-making in, 63, 71; celebration of Whitsuntide in, 121, 128, 134; St. George’s Day in, 128; priest rolled on the fields to fertilise them, 137; use of knots as amulets in, 242; funeral ceremonies of Kostrubonko, etc., in, 317–318; harvest customs in, 405, 425; wood-spirits in, 465; expulsion of demons in Eastern, 559–560; Midsummer fires in, 627, 656; treatment of the effigy of Kupalo in, 652; story of the external soul in, 671; birth trees in, 682; fern-seed at Midsummer in, 704
Rustling of leaves regarded as the voice of spirits, 115
Sacaea, a Babylonian festival, 281; mock king of, 443
Sacrament in the rites of Attis, 351; of swine’s flesh, 470; of first-fruits, 479, combined with a sacrifice of them, 488; of eating a god, 498; types of animal, 532–538
Sacramental bread, 491; eating of corn-spirit in animal form, 470; meal of new rice, 482
