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The Golden Bough
A Study in Magic and Religion
By
James George Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Liverpool
Vol. VIII. of XII.
Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild.
Vol. 2 of 2.
New York and London
MacMillan and Co.
1912
Contents
- Chapter IX. 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 X. Eating The God.
- § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits.
- § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs.
- § 3. Many Manii at Aricia.
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class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">Chapter XI. The Sacrifice of First-Fruits. Chapter XII. Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet. Chapter XIII. 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 XIV. The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters. Chapter XV. The Propitiation of Vermin by Farmers. § 1. The Enemies of the Crops. § 2. Mouse Apollo and Wolf Apollo. Chapter XVI. The Transmigration of Human Souls Into Animals. Chapter XVII. Types of Animal Sacrament. § 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament. § 2. Processions with Sacred Animals. § 3. The Rites of Plough Monday. Note: The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-Harvest Among The Garos. Index. Footnotes