The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 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 (24)
- Chapter VI. Fire-Festivals in Other Lands.
- § 1. The Fire-walk.
- § 2. The Meaning of the Fire-walk.
- Chapter VII. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires.
- § 1. The Burning of Effigies in the Fires.
- § 2. The Burning of Men and Animals in the Fires.
- Chapter VIII. The Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve.
- Chapter IX. Balder and the Mistletoe.
- Chapter X. The Eternal Soul in Folk-Tales.
- Chapter XI. The External Soul in Folk-Custom.
- § 1. The External Soul in Inanimate Things.
- § 2. The External Soul in Plants.
- § 3. The External Soul in Animals.
- § 4. A Suggested Theory of Totemism.586
- § 5. The Ritual of Death and Resurrection.
- Chapter XII. The Golden Bough.
- Chapter XIII. Farewell to Nemi.
- Notes.
- I. Snake Stones.764
- II. The Transformation of Witches Into Cats.
- III. African Balders.
- IV. The Mistletoe and the Golden Bough.
- Index.
- Footnotes
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