The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 11 of 12)

(M122) Thus the idea that the soul may be deposited for a longer or shorter time in some place of security outside the body, or at all events in the hair, is found in the popula...

Women in hard labour, charm to help, i. 14; after childbirth tabooed, 20; who do not menstruate supposed to make gardens barren, 24; impregnated by the sun, 74 _sq._; impregnate...

(M80) In a former part of this work we saw that, in the opinion of primitive people, the soul may temporarily absent itself from the body without causing death.(320) Such tempor...

(M234) We are at the end of our enquiry, but as often happens in the search after truth, if we have answered one question, we have raised many more; if we have followed one trac...

(M36) A feature of the great midsummer festival remains to be considered, which may perhaps help to clear up the doubt as to the meaning of the fire-ceremonies and their relatio...

Sheep made to tread embers of extinct Midsummer fires, i. 182; driven over ashes of Midsummer fires, 192; burnt to stop disease in the flock, 301; burnt alive as a sacrifice in...

(M214) Thus the view that Balder’s life was in the mistletoe is entirely in harmony with primitive modes of thought. It may indeed sound like a contradiction that, if his life w...

(M16) We have still to ask, What is the meaning of burning effigies in the fire at these festivals? After the preceding investigation the answer to the question seems obvious. A...

(M1) At first sight the interpretation of the European fire customs as charms for making sunshine is confirmed by a parallel custom observed by the Hindoos of Southern India at...

(M60) The reader may remember that the preceding account of the popular fire-festivals of Europe was suggested by the myth of the Norse god Balder, who is said to have been slai...

Druids, their superstition as to “serpents’ eggs,” i. 15; their human sacrifices, ii. 32 _sq._; in relation to the Midsummer festival, 33 _sqq._, 45; their worship of the mistle...

682 Jens Kamp, _Danske Folkeminder_ (Odense, 1877), pp. 172, 65 _sq._, referred to in Feilberg’s _Bidrag til en Ordbog over Jyske Almuesmål_, Fjerde hefte (Copenhagen, 1888), p....

Need-fire, i. 269 _sqq._; kindled as a remedy for cattle-plague, 270 _sqq._, 343; cattle driven through the, 270 _sqq._; derivation of the name, 270 _n._; kindled by the frictio...

M184 Rites of initiation in some tribes of German New Guinea. The novices thought to be swallowed and disgorged by a monster, whose voice is heard in the hum of the bull-roarers...

Bulgaria, the Yule log in, i. 264 _n._ 1; need-fire in, 281, 285; simples and flowers culled on St. John’s Day in, ii. 50; creeping through an arch of vines as a cure in, 180; c...

Life of community bound up with life of divine king, i. 1 _sq._; the water of, ii. 114 _sq._; of woman bound up with ornament, 156; of a man bound up with the capital of a colum...

Grimm, J., on need-fire, i. 270 _n._, 272 _sq._; on the relation of the Midsummer fires to Balder, ii. 87 _n._ 6; on the sanctity of the oak, 89; on the oak and lightning, 300

Milk, girls at puberty forbidden to drink, i. 22, 30; libations of, 30; not to be drunk by menstruous women, 80, 84; stolen by witches from cows, 176, 343, ii. 74; omens drawn f...

—— wort (_Hypericum perforatum_), garlands of, at Midsummer, i. 169 _n._ 3, 196; gathered on St. John’s Day or Eve (Midsummer Day or Eve), ii. 49, 54 _sqq._; a protection agains...

Rhys, Sir John, on Beltane fires, i. 157; on driving cattle through fires, 159; on old New Year’s Day in the Isle of Man, 224; on Hallowe’en bonfires in Wales, 239 _sq._; on bur...

—— of the Wood at Nemi put to death, i. 2; in the Arician grove a personification of an oak-spirit, ii. 285; the priest of Diana at Aricia, perhaps personified Jupiter, 302 _sq....

Dance at Sipi in Northern India, i. 12; of young women at puberty, ii. 183; in the grave at initiation, 237; in honour of the big or grey wolf, 276 _n._ 2

Jupiter represented by an oak-tree on the Capitol, ii. 89; perhaps personified by the King of the Wood, the priest of Diana at Nemi, 302 _sq._; Jupiter and Janus, 302 _n._ 2

Devonshire, need-fire in, i. 288; animals burnt alive as a sacrifice in, 302; belief in witchcraft in, 302; crawling under a bramble as a cure for whooping-cough in, ii. 180

St. John blesses the flowers on Midsummer Eve, i. 171; his hair looked for in ashes of Midsummer fire, 182 _sq._, 190; fires of, in France, 183, 188, 189, 190, 192, 193; prayers...

§ 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. § 5. The Ritual of Death an...