The Golden Bough

Contents

 * Preface
 * Subject Index
 * Chapter 1. The King of the Wood
 * Chapter 2. Priestly Kings
 * Chapter 3. Sympathetic Magic
 * Chapter 4. Magic and Religion
 * Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather
 * Chapter 6. Magicians as Kings
 * Chapter 7. Incarnate Human Gods
 * Chapter 8. Departmental Kings of Nature
 * Chapter 9. The Worship of Trees
 * Chapter 10. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
 * Chapter 11. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
 * Chapter 12. The Sacred Marriage
 * Chapter 13. The Kings of Rome and Alba
 * Chapter 14. Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
 * Chapter 15. The Worship of the Oak
 * Chapter 16. Dianus and Diana
 * Chapter 17. The Burden of Royalty
 * Chapter 18. The Perils of the Soul
 * Chapter 19. Tabooed Acts
 * Chapter 20. Tabooed Persons
 * Chapter 21. Tabooed Things
 * Chapter 22. Tabooed Words
 * Chapter 23. Our Debt to the Savage
 * Chapter 24. The Killing of the Divine King
 * Chapter 25. Temporary Kings
 * Chapter 26. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
 * Chapter 27. Succession to the Soul
 * Chapter 28. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
 * 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
 * Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris
 * 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
 * Chapter 47. Lityerses
 * Chapter 48. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
 * Chapter 49. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals
 * Chapter 50. Eating the God
 * Chapter 51. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
 * Chapter 52. Killing the Divine Animal
 * Chapter 53. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
 * Chapter 54. Types of Animal Sacrament
 * Chapter 55. The Transference of Evil
 * Chapter 56. The Public Expulsion of Evils
 * Chapter 57. Public Scapegoats
 * Chapter 58. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
 * Chapter 59. Killing the God in Mexico
 * Chapter 60. Between Heaven and Earth
 * Chapter 61. The Myth of Balder
 * Chapter 62. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
 * Chapter 63. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
 * Chapter 64. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
 * Chapter 65. Balder and the Mistletoe
 * Chapter 66. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
 * Chapter 67. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
 * Chapter 68. The Golden Bough
 * Chapter 69. Farewell to Nemi