Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Souls, of the dead in trees, 115; every man thought to have four, 179; light and heavy, thin and fat, 179; transference of, 184, 185; abducted by demons, 186; extracted or detained by sorcerers, 187–188; supposed to be in portraits, 193; of slain enemies propitiated, 213; of beasts respected, 223; of the dead transmitted to successors, 294; immortal, attributed to animals, 518; the plurality of, 690
Sow, corn-spirit as, 460; the cropped black, at Hallowe’en, 636
Sowing, homoeopathic magic at, 28; sexual intercourse before, 136; continence at, 138; rites of, in Egypt, 371; and ploughing, ceremony of, in the rites of Osiris, 375; expulsion of demons at, 575
Spain, belief as to death at ebb tide in, 35; Midsummer fires in, 631
Sparta, state sacrifices at, 9; sacrifices to the sun at, 79; king not to be touched, 224; warned by oracle against a lame reign, 273; octennial tenure of kingship at, 279
Spiders in homoeopathic magic, 31; ceremony at killing, 524
Spindles not to be carried openly on the highroads, 20; not to be twirled while men are in council, 20
Spinning forbidden to women under certain circumstances, 20
Spirit, Brethren and Sisters of the Free, 101; of vegetation, see Vegetation; the Great, of American Indians, 264
Spirits, in trees, 112; water, 145; averse to iron, 225; evil, fear of attracting the attention of, 248; distinguished from gods, 411; of the woods, 465; retreat of the army of, 546
Spitting, forbidden, 218; upon knots as a charm, 241; at ceremony of expulsion of evils, 568
Spittle, used in magic, 13, 233, 234, 237; tabooed, 237; used in making a covenant, 237; magical virtue of, 435, 437
Stone, used in ceremony to facilitate childbirth, 14; supposed to cure jaundice, 16; treading on a, as a homoeopathic charm, 33; (lapis manalis) used in rain-making at Rome, 77–78; holed, in magic, to make sunshine, 78; external soul in a, 680; magical, put into body of novice at initiation, 699
Stone-throwing as a fertility charm, 7; -curlew as a cure for jaundice, 16
Stones anointed in order to avert bullets from warriors, 26; homoeopathic magic of, 33; precious, magical qualities of, 34; rain-making by means of, 75, 85; in charms to make the sun shine, 78; in wind charms, 80; ghosts in, 190; sacred, 235; in last sheaf, 402, 403; criminal crushed between, 431; fatigue transferred to, 540
Strangers, taboos on intercourse with, 194; suspected of practising magic arts, 194; ceremonies at reception of, 195; slain as representatives of the corn-spirit, 426; regarded as representatives of the cornspirit, 429, 431, 439
Straw, wrapt round fruit-trees as a protection against evil spirits, 561; tied round trees to make them fruitful, 612
Sumatra, magical image to obtain offspring in, 14; pregnant woman not to stand at the door in, 21; homoeopathic magic at sowing rice in, 28; rain-charm by means of a black cat in, 72; personification of the rice in, 415; tigers respected in, 519; human scapegoat in, 570
