The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 10 of 12)
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The Golden A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden A Study in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). It was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; the third edition, published 1906–15, comprised twelve volumes. The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). Frazer offered a modernist approach t...
Chapters (29)
- Preface.
- Chapter I. Between Heaven And Earth.
- § 1. Not to touch the Earth.
- § 2. Not to see the Sun.
- Chapter II. The Seclusion of Girls at Puberty.
- § 1. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in Africa.
- § 2. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in New Ireland, New Guinea, and Indonesia.
- § 3. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in the Torres Straits Islands and Northern Australia.
- § 4. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty among the Indians of North America.
- § 5. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty among the Indians of South America.
- § 6. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in India and Cambodia.
- § 7. Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in Folk-tales.
- § 8. Reasons for the Seclusion of Girls at Puberty.
- Chapter III. The Myth of Balder.
- Chapter IV. The Fire-Festivals of Europe.
- § 1. The Lenten Fires.
- § 2. The Easter Fires.
- § 3. The Beltane Fires.
- § 4. The Midsummer Fires.
- § 5. The Autumn Fires.
- § 6. The Hallowe'en Fires.
- § 7. The Midwinter Fires.
- § 8. The Need-fire.
- § 9. The Sacrifice of an Animal to stay a Cattle-Plague.
- Chapter V. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals.
- § 1. On the Fire-festivals in general.
- § 2. The Solar Theory of the Fire-festivals.
- § 3. The Purificatory Theory of the Fire-festivals.
- Footnotes
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