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The Golden Bough

by James George Frazer

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

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