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In this concluding part of _The Golden Bough_ I have discussed the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If I am right, the Golden Bough over which the King of the Wood, Diana's priest at Aricia, kept watch and ward was no other than a branch of mistletoe growing on...
All over Europe the peasants have been accustomed from time immemorial to kindle bonfires on certain days of the year, and to dance round or leap over them. Customs of this kind...
8. Chapter 8Now it is remarkable that the foregoing two rules--not to touch the ground and not to see the sun--are observed either separately or conjointly by girls at puberty in many parts...
12. Chapter 12S.J., "Le feu du Saint-Sépulcre," _Les Missions Catholiques_, viii. (1876) pp. 518 _sq._; Rev. C.T. Wilson, _Peasant Life in the Holy Land_ (London, 1906), pp. 45 _sq._; P. Sain...
7. Chapter 7We have travelled far since we turned our backs on Nemi and set forth in quest of the secret of the Golden Bough. With the present volume we enter on the last stage of our long...
13. Chapter 13The foregoing survey of the popular fire-festivals of Europe suggests some general observations. In the first place we can hardly help being struck by the resemblance which the...
9. Chapter 9[88] Rev. Canon Henry Callaway, _Nursery Tales, Traditions, and Histories of the Zulus_ (Natal and London, 1868), p. 182, note 20. From one of the Zulu texts which the author ed...
1. Chapter 1In this concluding part of _The Golden Bough_ I have discussed the problem which gives its title to the whole work. If I am right, the Golden Bough over which the King of the Wo...
10. Chapter 10A deity whose life might in a sense be said to be neither in heaven nor on earth but between the two, was the Norse Balder, the good and beautiful god, the son of the great god...
5. Chapter 5§ 1. _The Lenten Fires_, pp. 106-120.--European custom of kindling bonfires on certain days of the year, dancing round them, leaping over them, and burning effigies in the flame...
3. Chapter 3§ 1. _Seclusion of Girls at Puberty in Africa_, pp. 22-32.--Girls at puberty forbidden to touch the ground and see the sun, 22; seclusion of girls at puberty among the Zulus and...
6. Chapter 6§ 1. _On the Fire-festivals in general_ pp. 328-331.--General resemblance of the fire-festivals to each other, 328 _sq._; two explanations of the festivals suggested, one by W....
2. Chapter 2§ 1. _Not to touch the Earth_, pp. 1-18.--The priest of Aricia and the Golden Bough, 1 _sq._; sacred kings and priests forbidden to touch the ground with their feet, 2-4; certai...
4. Chapter 4How Balder, the good and beautiful god, was done to death by a stroke of mistletoe, 101 _sq._; story of Balder in the older _Edda_, 102 _sq._; story of Balder as told by Saxo Gr...