The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

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dancing or leaping as a charm to make flax grow tall in, i. 138 _sq._; custom as to cast teeth in, i. 178; treatment of weapons that have wounded in, i. 204; beating an absent man vicariously in, i. 207; contagious magic of footprints in, i. 210, 211 _sq._; meal offered to the wind in, i. 329 _n._ 5; fruit-trees girt or tied together with straw on Christmas Eve in, ii. 17, 27 _sq._; the Harvest May in, ii. 47, 48; use of May-trees to make cows yield milk in, ii. 52; the rowan-tree a charm against witchcraft in, ii. 53 _n._ 5, ix. 267; precautions against witches on Walpurgis Night in, ii. 54; Midsummer trees in, ii. 65 _sq._; races at Whitsuntide in, ii. 69; races at a marriage in, ii. 303 _sq._; acorns as fodder for swine in, ii. 356; custom of passing patients through a hole in an oak-tree as a cure in,