Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore
§ 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 Am...
(M88) 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 thi...
7. CHAPTER II. THE SECLUSION OF GIRLS AT PUBERTY.(M19) Now 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 p...
12. chapter xvi. pp. 158-163 (Temple Classics edition); Father X.Abougit, S.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....
11. Part ii. p. 267 (_Sacred Books of the East_, vols. xxix., xxx.).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 edit...
10. CHAPTER V. THE INTERPRETATION OF THE FIRE-FESTIVALS.(M289) The 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 whi...
6. CHAPTER I. BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH.(M1) We 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...
5. Chapter V. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals.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 Wo...
8. CHAPTER III. THE MYTH OF BALDER.(M82) A 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 grea...
3. 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 Stra...
4. 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....
1. Part VII: Balder the Beautiful.2. Chapter I. Between Heaven And Earth.