The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (abridged edition)

Sir James George Frazer, abridged, one volume edition, 1922

Third year · Witchcraft and folk magic

Contents

  1. Chapter I: The King of the Wood p. 1
  2. Chapter II: Priestly Kings p. 9
  3. Chapter III: Sympathetic Magic p. 11
  4. Chapter IV: Magic and Religion p. 48
  5. Chapter V: The Magical Control of the Weather p. 60
  6. Chapter VI: Magicians as Kings p. 83
  7. Chapter VII: Incarnate Human Gods p. 91
  8. Chapter VIII: Departmental Kings of Nature p. 106
  9. Chapter IX: The Worship of Trees p. 109
  10. Chapter X: Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe p. 120
  11. Chapter XI: The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation p. 135
  12. Chapter XII: The Sacred Marriage p. 139
  13. Chapter XIII: The Kings of Rome and Alba p. 146
  14. Chapter XIV: The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium p. 152
  15. Chapter XV: The Worship of the Oak p. 159
  16. Chapter XVI: Dianus and Diana p. 161
  17. Chapter XVII: The Burden of Royalty p. 168
  18. Chapter XVIII: The Perils of the Soul p. 178
  19. Chapter XIX: Tabooed Acts p. 194
  20. Chapter XX: Tabooed Persons p. 202
  21. Chapter XXI: Tabooed Things p. 223
  22. Chapter XXII: Tabooed Words p. 244
  23. Chapter XXIII: Our Debt to the Savage p. 262
  24. Chapter XXIV: The Killing of the Divine King p. 264
  25. Chapter XXV: Temporary Kings p. 283
  26. Chapter XXVI: Sacrifice of the King’s Son p. 289
  27. Chapter XXVII: Succession to the Soul p. 293
  28. Chapter XXVIII: The Killing of the Tree-Spirit p. 296
  29. Chapter XXIX: The Myth of Adonis p. 324
  30. Chapter XXX: Adonis in Syria p. 327
  31. Chapter XXXI: Adonis in Cyprus p. 329
  32. Chapter XXXII: The Ritual of Adonis p. 335
  33. Chapter XXXIII: The Gardens of Adonis p. 341
  34. Chapter XXXIV: The Myth and Ritual of Attis p. 347
  35. Chapter XXXV: Attis as a God of Vegetation p. 352
  36. Chapter XXXVI: Human Representatives of Attis p. 353
  37. Chapter XXXVII: Oriental Religions in the West p. 356
  38. Chapter XXXVIII: The Myth of Osiris p. 362
  39. Chapter XXXIX: The Ritual of Osiris p. 368
  40. Chapter XL: The Nature of Osiris p. 377
  41. Chapter XLI: Isis p. 382
  42. Chapter XLII: Osiris and the Sun p. 384
  43. Chapter XLIII: Dionysus p. 385
  44. Chapter XLIV: Demeter and Persephone p. 393
  45. Chapter XLV: The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe p. 399
  46. Chapter XLVI: The Corn-Mother in Many Lands p. 412
  47. Chapter XLVII: Lityerses p. 424
  48. Chapter XLVIII: The Corn-Spirit as an Animal p. 447
  49. Chapter XLIX: Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals p. 464
  50. Chapter L: Eating the God p. 479
  51. Chapter LI: Homeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet p. 494
  52. Chapter LII: Killing the Divine Animal p. 499
  53. Chapter LIII: The Propitiation of Wild Animals By Hunters p. 518
  54. Chapter LIV: Types of Animal Sacrament p. 532
  55. Chapter LV: The Transference of Evil p. 538
  56. Chapter LVI: The Public Expulsion of Evils p. 546
  57. Chapter LVII: Public Scapegoats p. 562
  58. Chapter LVIII: Human Scapegoats in Classical Antiquity p. 577
  59. Chapter LIX: Killing the God in Mexico p. 587
  60. Chapter LX: Between Heaven and Earth p. 592
  61. Chapter LXI: The Myth of Balder p. 607
  62. Chapter LXII: The Fire-Festivals of Europe p. 609
  63. Chapter LXIII: The Interpretation of the Fire-Festivals p. 641
  64. Chapter LXIV: The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires p. 650
  65. Chapter LXV: Balder and the Mistletoe p. 658
  66. Chapter LXVI: The External Soul in Folk-Tales p. 667
  67. Chapter LXVII: The External Soul in Folk-Custom p. 679
  68. Chapter LXVIII: The Golden Bough p. 701
  69. Chapter LXIX: Farewell to Nemi p. 711
About this book and its scans

Published 1922 by Macmillan (copyright notice of the scan, leaf 7: "Copyright, 1922 ... Published November, 1922"); this printing 1925. In the public domain in the US.