The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic & Religion. James George Frazer

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Demeter and Persephone

       XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe

       XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands

       XLVII. Lityerses

       XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal

       XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals

       L. Eating the God

       LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet

       LII. Killing the Divine Animal

       LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters

       LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament

       LV. The Transference of Evil

       LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils

       LVII. Public Scapegoats

       LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity

       LIX. Killing the God in Mexico

       LX. Between Heaven and Earth

       LXI. The Myth of Balder

       LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe

       LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals

       LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires

       LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe

       LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales

       LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom

       LXVIII. The Golden Bough

       LXIX. Farewell to Nemi

      Preface

       Table of Contents

      The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. When I first set myself to solve the problem more than thirty years ago, I thought that the solution could be propounded very briefly, but I soon found that to render it probable or even intelligible it was necessary to discuss certain more general questions, some of which had hardly been broached before. In successive editions the discussion of these and kindred topics has occupied more and more space, the enquiry has branched out in more and more directions, until the two volumes of the original work have expanded into twelve. Meantime a wish has often been expressed that the book should be issued in a more compendious form. This abridgment is an attempt to meet the wish and thereby to bring the work within the range of a wider circle of readers. While the bulk of the book has been greatly reduced, I have endeavoured to retain its leading principles, together with an amount of evidence sufficient to illustrate them clearly. The language of the original has also for the most part been preserved, though here and there the exposition has been somewhat condensed. In order to keep as much of the text as possible I have sacrificed all the notes, and with them all exact references to my authorities. Readers who desire to ascertain the source of any particular statement must therefore consult the larger work, which is fully documented and provided with a complete bibliography.

      With these and other instances of like customs before us it is no longer possible to regard the rule of succession to

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