Mummers

2. Burying the Carnival

3. Carrying out Death

4. Bringing in Summer

5. Battle of Summer and Winter

6. Death and Resurrection of Kostrubonko

7. Death and Revival of Vegetation

8. Analogous Rites in India

9. The Magic Spring

Chapter 29. The Myth of Adonis

Chapter 30. Adonis in Syria

Chapter 31. Adonis in Cyprus

Chapter 32. The Ritual of Adonis

Chapter 33. The Gardens of Adonis

Chapter 34. The Myth and Ritual of Attis

Chapter 35. Attis as a God of Vegetation

Chapter 36. Human Representatives of Attis

Chapter 37. Oriental Religions in the West

Chapter 38. The Myth of Osiris

Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris

1. The Popular Rites

2. The Official Rites

Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris

1. Osiris a Corn-god

2. Osiris a Tree-spirit

3. Osiris a God of Fertility

4. Osiris a God of the Dead

Chapter 41. Isis

Chapter 42. Osiris and the Sun

Chapter 43. Dionysus

Chapter 44. Demeter and Persephone

Chapter 45. Corn-Mother and Corn-Maiden in N. Europe

Chapter 46. Corn-Mother in Many Lands

1. The Corn-mother in America

2. The Rice-mother in the East Indies

3. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings

4. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter

Chapter 47. Lityerses

1. Songs of the Corn Reapers

2. Killing the Corn-spirit

3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops

4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives

Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal

1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit

2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog

3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock

4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare

5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat

6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat

7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox

8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare

9. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow)

10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit

Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals

1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull

2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse

3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig

4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull

5. Virbius and the Horse

Chapter 50. Eating the God

1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits

2. Eating the God among the Aztecs

3. Many Manii at Aricia

Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet

Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal

1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard

2. Killing the Sacred Ram

3. Killing the Sacred Serpent

4. Killing the Sacred Turtles

5. Killing the Sacred Bear

Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters

Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament

1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament

2. Processions with Sacred Animals

Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil

1. The Transference to Inanimate Objects

2. The Transference to Animals

3. The Transference to Men

4. The Transference of Evil in Europe

Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils

1. The Omnipresence of Demons

2. The Occasional Expulsion of Evils

3. The Periodic Expulsion of Evils