The Golden Bough
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The Golden Bough

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The Golden Bough

About this book

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. Published in 1890 it offered a modernist approach to discussing religion. The impact of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature was substantial.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. I. The King of the Wood
  3. II. Priestly Kings
  4. III. Sympathetic Magic
  5. IV. Magic and Religion
  6. V. The Magical Control of the Weather
  7. VI. Magicians as Kings
  8. VII. Incarnate Human Gods
  9. VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature
  10. IX. The Worship of Trees
  11. X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe
  12. XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation
  13. XII. The Sacred Marriage
  14. XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba
  15. XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium
  16. XV. The Worship of the Oak
  17. XVI. Dianus and Diana
  18. XVII. The Burden of Royalty
  19. XVIII. The Perils of the Soul
  20. XIX. Tabooed Acts
  21. XX. Tabooed Persons
  22. XXI. Tabooed Things
  23. XXII. Tabooed Words
  24. XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage
  25. XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King
  26. XXV. Temporary Kings
  27. XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son
  28. XXVII. Succession to the Soul
  29. XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit
  30. XXIX. The Myth of Adonis
  31. XXX. Adonis in Syria
  32. XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus
  33. XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis
  34. XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis
  35. XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis
  36. XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation
  37. XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis
  38. XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West
  39. XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris
  40. XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris
  41. XL. The Nature of Osiris
  42. XLI. Isis
  43. XLII. Osiris and the Sun
  44. XLIII. Dionysus
  45. XLIV. Demeter and Persephone
  46. XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe
  47. XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands
  48. XLVII. Lityerses
  49. XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal
  50. XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetationas Animals
  51. L. Eating the God
  52. LI. Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet
  53. LII. Killing the Divine Animal
  54. LIII. The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters
  55. LIV. Types of Animal Sacrament
  56. LV. The Transference of Evil
  57. LVI. The Public Expulsion of Evils
  58. LVII. Public Scapegoats
  59. LVIII. Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity
  60. LIX. Killing the God in Mexico
  61. LX. Between Heaven and Earth
  62. LXI. The Myth of Balder
  63. LXII. The Fire-Festivals of Europe
  64. LXIII. The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals
  65. LXIV. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires
  66. LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
  67. LXVI. The External Soul in Folk-Tales
  68. LXVII. The External Soul in Folk-Custom
  69. LXVIII. The Golden Bough
  70. LXIX. Farewell to Nemi