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Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.

Subject Index

Sieve, water poured through, as a raincharm, 71

Sikkim, fear of the camera in, 193

Silenuses, minor deities associated with Dionysus, 464

Silesia, Whitsuntide King in, 129; Whitsuntide customs in, 132; “carrying out Death” in, 309–311, 314, 614; bringing in Summer, 311; the Grandmother at harvest in, 401; names given to last sheaf in, 402; the Wheat Bride at harvest in, 409; harvest customs in, 428, 449, 451, 453, 457; expulsion of witches and evil spirits in, 560, 561; needfire in, 640

Silk-cotton trees reverenced, 112

Silkworms, taboos observed by breeders of, 218

Silvanus, the Roman wood-god, 140, 141

Silvii, family name of kings of Alba, 149, 163

Simeon, prince of Bulgaria, 680

Similarity in magic, law of, 11

Singarmati Deva, Indian goddess, 218

Singhalese, the, 226

Sins, confession of, 198, 217, 540, 541–542, 553, 569; the remission of, through the shedding of blood, 356; transferred to a buffalo calf, 541; transferred vicariously to human beings, 542; of the Children of Israel transferred to scapegoat, 569

Sioux Indians, 497

Sirius, the Dog-star, 370, 384

Sisters, taboos observed by, 23, 25

Situa, annual festival of the Incas, 553

Siva and Pârvatî, marriage of the images of, 320

Skeat, W. W., 417

Skeleton drenched with water as a ra n-charm, 71

Skin disease caused by eating a sacred animal, 473

Skins of sacrificed animals, uses made of, 466, 477, 499–501, 529; of human victims, 591

Skipping-rope played at bear-festival, 512

Skulls, of head-hunters’ victims preserved as relics, 433; of bears and foxes worshipped and consulted as oracles, 505; of turtles propitiated, 526

Sky, twins called children of the, 67; observation of the, for omens, 279

Skye, last sheaf called the Cripple Goat in, 455; the need-fire in, 618

Slave, charm to bring back a runaway, 31

Slave priest at Nemi, 3

Slave Coast of West Africa, negroes of the, 116; exorcism of demons from children on the, 196, 226; precautions as to the spittle of kings on the, 237

Slaves, license granted to, at the Saturnalia, 158, 583

Slavonia, harvest customs in, 404; the Corn-spirit in, 448; custom of “carrying out Death” in, 578; the Yule log in, 638; need-fire in, 641; stories of the external soul in, 671

Slavonians, South, 30, 32, 114, 119, 649. See also Slavs

Slavs, 110, 161, 278, 302, 400, 649, 665; of Carinthia, 126; South, 44, 636

Sleep, charms to cause, 30; absence of the soul in, 181–182; forbidden in house after a death, 182; sick people not allowed to, 193

Slovenes, 128; of Oberkrain, 134

Smallpox, 493; demon of, transferred to a sow, 540; blood of monkey used to exorcise the devil of, 549; flight from the evil spirit of, 550; demon of, expelled by means of an image, 563; expelled in a boat, 564

Smith’s craft sacred, 86

Smoke, in rain-making, 73; of cedar inhaled as means of inspiration, 95; of bonfires, 612, 622, 645; of need-fire, 640; used to stupefy witches in the clouds, 650

Smoking as a means of inducing a state of ecstasy, 484; in honour of slain bears, 522

Snail supposed to suck blood of cattle, 190

Snake, used in rain-charm, 72; respected by Indians of Carolina, 519; worshipped, 535; said to wound a girl at puberty, 601; seven-headed, external soul of witch in a, 676

Snake-bite, charm against, 32; clan, exposed infants to snakes, 502; -god, married to women, 145; -stone, 34; tribe, in the Punjaub, 535

Snipe, fever transferred to a, 545

Snorri Sturluson, 379

Sochit or Sochet, epithet of Isis, 383

Society, uniformity of occupation in primitive, 61; ancient, built on the principle of subordination of the individual to the community, 357

Sofala, kings of, put to death, 272

Sogamosa or Sogamoza, the pontiff of, 104; heir to the throne not allowed to see the sun, 595

Sokari (Seker), a title of Osiris, 375

Solar theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, 642, 643

Solomon Islands, the, disposal of cut hair in, 235; ceremony for getting rid of fatigue in, 540

Solstice, the summer, its importance for primitive man, 622; the winter, reckoned by the ancients the Nativity of the Sun, 358

Solstitial fires perhaps rain-charms, 706

Son of God, alleged incarnation of the, in America, 102; of the king, sacrificed for his father, 289

Songs of the corn-reapers, 424

Sopater accused of binding the winds, 81

Sorcerers, 84, 233, 235, 236; souls extracted or detained by, 187, 188; influence wielded by, 196; injure men through their names, 245; exorcise demons, 548

Sorcery, the dread of, 233, 691; protections against, 621, 629, 663

Sorrowful One, vaults of the, 371

Sothis, Egyptian name for Sirius, 370

Soul, the perils of the, 178; as a mannikin, 178; absence and recall of the, 180; as a shadow and a reflection, 189–192; in the blood, 228, 230; identified with the personal name, 244; of man-god, 265; succession to the, 293–295; of the rice, 413, 415; thought to be seated in the liver, 497; the notion of a, 690; the unity and indivisibility of the, 690. See also Souls

——, the external, in folk-tales, 667–678; in inanimate things, 679; in plants, 681; in animals, 683; kept in totem, 690

Soul-boxes, amulets as, 679–680; -stone, 680

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