| Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922. |
Subject Index |
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| Australia, Northern, homoeopathic magic of flesh diet in, 496 |
| ——, South-eastern, contagious magic of footprints in, 44, and of bodily impressions, 45; sex totems in, 687–689 |
| ——, Western, belief as to the placenta in, 39 |
| Australian aborigines (blacks), 38, 39, 55, 80, 179, 190, 205, 207, 229, 234, 244, 251, 253, 254, 349, 533, 539, 551 |
| Austria, charm to make fruit trees bear in, 28; belief in the sensitiveness of trees, 113; harvest customs in, 405; children warned against the Corn-cock in, 451; mythical calf in the corn in, 459; Midsummer fires in, 625; the mistletoe in, 663 |
| Autumn-hen, last sheaf called, 451 |
| Auvergne, Lenten fires in, 611 |
| Auxerre, harvest customs in, 401, 459 |
| Auxesia and Damia, 7 |
| Awa-nkonde, the, 596 |
| “Awasungu, house of the,” 596 |
| Axe, that slew ox, condemned, 466 |
| Axo-mama (Potato-mother), 413 |
| Aymara Indians, 73, 565 |
| Azadirachta Indica, 72 |
| Aztecs, 488, 587, 681 |
| Ba-Pedi of South Africa, 209, 211, 220 |
| Ba-Ronga of South Africa, 677 |
| Ba-Thonga of South Africa, 211, 220 |
| Baal, phrophets of, 66 |
| Baba, name given to last sheaf, 404 |
| Babar Archipelago, ceremony to obtain a child for barren woman in the, 14; saturnalia at marriage of Sun and Earth, 136–137; fatigue transferred to stones in the, 540 |
| Babylon, theocratic despotism of ancient, 48; sanctuary of Bel at, 142; mortality of the high gods of, 265; festival of Zagmuk at, 281; festival of Sacaea at, 282; sanctified harlotry at, 330 |
| Babylonia, divinity of the early kings, 104; worship of Adonis in, 325 |
| Bacchanals of Thrace, ivy eaten by, 95; tore Pentheus in pieces, 378, 392; wore horns, 390 |
| Bacchic frenzy, 29 |
| Bacchus or Dionysus, 386. See Dionysus |
| Badagas of the Neilgherry Hills, 482, 541, 542 |
| Badonsachen, king of Burma, 99 |
| Baduwis of Java, 225 |
| Baffin Land, expulsion of Sedna in, 552 |
| Bag, souls of persons deposited in a, 186, 675, 679; soul of dying chief caught in a, 294, 295 |
| Baganda of Central Africa, 40, 98, 137, 145, 523, 539, 604 |
| Bagba, a wind-fetish, 81, 170 |
| Bageshu of East Africa, 214 |
| Bagobos of Minandao, 180, 355, 433 |
| Bahaus. See Kayans |
| Bahima, of Central Africa, 257; of Uganda, 539 |
| Bailly, J. S., French astronomer, 337 |
| Balder, the myth of, 607–609; and the mistletoe, 608, 658–667, 701, 702, 710 |
| Balder’s Balefires, 625, 664 |
| Bali, island of, rice personified as husband and wife in, 418; expulsion of devils in, 557 |
| Ball-players, homoeopathic charms employed by, 29 |
| Balls, gold and silver, to imitate the sun and moon, 121 |
| Balong of the Cameroons, 685 |
| Bangala of the Upper Congo, 247 |
| Banjars in West Africa, 86 |
| Banks’ Islands, magical stones in the, 33; making sunshine in the, 78–79; ghosts in stones in the, 190; ceremony for getting rid of fatigue in the, 540 |
| Banting in Sarawak, rules observed during absence of warriors at, 25 |
| Bantu tribes, 209, 215 |
| Banyoro, the, 85, 565 |
| Barea of East Africa, 107 |
| Barenton, the fountain of, 76, 77 |
| Bari of the Upper Nile, 85 |
| Barley, oldest cereal cultivated by the Aryans, 399 |
| Barley-cow, 457, 458; -mother, 399; -sow, 460; -wolf, 448, 449 |
| Baronga, the, of South Africa, 67, 71 |
| Barren women. See under Women |
| Bashilange, reception of the subject chiefs by head chief among the, 198 |
| Basque hunter transformed into bear, 692, 699 |
| Bastard, name given to last sheaf, 406 |
| Bastian, Adolf, 533 |
| Basutos, 38, 192, 214 |
| Bataks of Sumatra, 14, 40, 82, 184, 198, 541, 570, 690, 691 |
| Batavia, rain-making in, 72 |
| Batchelor, Rev. J., 506, 515, 516 |
| Bathing as a rain-charm, 70 |
| Bats, the lives of men in, 687, 688 |
| Bavaria, charms in, 28; magic in, 29, 40, 42, 43; greasing weapon instead of wound in, 42; green bushes placed at doors of newly married pairs in, 119; the Maypole in, 124; the Walber in, 126; saying as to crossed legs in, 240; Whitsuntide mummers in Lower, 297; carrying out Death in, 307; contests between Summer and Winter in, 316; the corn-spirit in, 402; harvest customs in, 405, 426–428, 454, 456, 457, 461; cure for fever in, 544; expulsion of witches in, 561; Easter fires in, 616; Midsummer fires in, 623, 653 |
| Bean, King of the, 586 |
| Bean-cock, 451; -goat, 454 |
| Bear, taboos concerning, 221; custom observed after killing a, 222; killing the sacred, 505 |
| Beards, magic to promote growth of, 32 |
| Beasts, sacred, held responsible for the course of nature in ancient Egypt, 87 |
| Beating a man’s garment instead of the man, 44; with rods in rain-making, 66; frogs, as a rain-charm, 73 |
| Beauce and Perche, 40 |
| Bechuanas, the, of South Africa, 31, 73, 197, 474, 484 |
| Bed-clothes, contagious magic of bodily impressions on, 45 |
| Bede, on the succession of Pictish kings, 156 |
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