Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| Psoloeis, the, at Orchomenus, 291, 292 |
| Psylli, a Snake clan, 83, 502 |
| Ptarmigans and ducks, dramatic contest of the, among the Esquimaux, 317 |
| Puberty, girls secluded at, 595; initiatory rites at, 692 |
| Punchkin and the parrot, story of, 669, 687, 690 |
| Punjaub, the, General Nicholson worshipped in his lifetime in, 100; human sacrifice in, 112; belief as to tattooing in, 180; Snake tribe in, 535, 536; human scapegoat in, 566 |
| Puppets, of rushes thrown into the Tiber, 493; used to attract demons of sickness from living patients, 564 |
| Puppies, red-haired, sacrificed by the Romans to the Dog-star, 444 |
| Purification, of man-slayers, 212, 215; of hunters and fishers, 216; after contact with a pig, 472; by washing, 473; before partaking of new fruits, 484, 488; by emetics, 485, 488; by standing on sacrificed human victim, 572; by beating, 602 |
| Purificatory ceremonies, at reception of strangers, 195; on return from a journey, 197 |
| —— theory of the fires of the fire-festivals, 642, 647; more probable than the solar theory, 650 |
| Puyallup Indians, 256 |
| Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, 332 |
| Pythagoras, maxims of, 44, 45 |
| Python clan, in Senegambia, 502 |
| Quartz used in circumcision, 224 |
| Quartz-crystal used in rain-making, 76 |
| Queen, name given to last corn cut at harvest, 407; the Harvest, in England, 405; of Athens, married to Dionysus, 142; of the Corn-ears, 405; of Egypt, the wife of Ammon, 142; of Heaven, 337, 711; of May, 127, 129, 131, 320 |
| Queensland, beliefs as to the afterbirth in, 39; namesakes of the dead change their names in some of the tribes of, 253; expulsion of a demon in Central, 562; seclusion of girls at puberty in, 598 |
| Quetzalcoatl, Mexican god, 491 |
| Quilacare, suicide of the kings of, 274–275 |
| Quinoa-mother, the, 413 |
| Quiteve, title of king of Sofala, 273 |
| Quito, the kings of, 431 |
| Quonde, in Nigeria, king-killing at, 271 |
| Ra, the Egyptian sun-god, 362, 364, 366, 475; and Isis, 260 |
| Race, to determine the Whitsuntide king, 129; succession to a kingdom determined by a, 156; for a bride, 156; of reapers to last sheaf, 459 |
| Races, at Whitsuntide, 124, 129; on horseback to the Maypole, 132; at fire-festivals, 611 |
| Radica, a festival at the end of the Carnival in Frosinone, 302 |
| Rain, the magical control of, 62–78, 234, 629, 645; prayers for, 71, 77, 86, 118, 159–161; kings expected to give, 85–87, 98–99; supposed to fall only as a result of magic, 87; Zeus as the god of, 159; prevented by the blood of a woman who has miscarried, 209 |
| Rain-bird, 72; -charms, 71, 131, 210, 234, 300, 341, 400, 437, 438; doctor, among the Toradjas of Celebes, 68; -gods, 73–75; king, 70, 107; -makers, 62, 84–86, 107, 269, 270; song, sung by women, 118; -stones, 76, 85; temple, in Angoniland, 64 |
| Rajah, temporary, after death of rajah, 287 |
| Rajahs, among the Malays, supernatural powers attributed to, 88; two, in Timor, 177 |
| Rajputana, gardens of Adonis in, 343 |
| Ralî, the fair of, in India, 319 |
| Ram, with golden fleece, 290; as vicarious sacrifice for human victim, 292; sacrificed to Ammon, 477; Tibetan goddess riding on a, 492; killing the sacred, 500; consecration of a white, 534 |
| Ram’s skull in charm to avert demons, 492 |
| Rama, his battle with the king of Ceylon, 670 |
| Ramanga, among the Betsileo, 229 |
| Raratonga, in the Pacific, 39 |
| Rarhi Brahmans of Bengal, 602 |
| Raskolnik, Russian Dissenter, 71 |
| Raspberries, wild, ceremony at gathering the first, 486 |
| Rat’s hair as a charm, 31 |
| Rats, in magic, 39; superstitious precautions of farmers against, 531 |
| Rattle, wooden, swung by twins to make fair or foul weather, 66 |
| Rattlesnakes respected by North-American Indians, 520 |
| Raven’s eggs in homoeopathic magic, 32 |
| Reapers, contests between, 401, 403, 404, 407, 426, 439; throw sickles at the last standing corn, 401, 403, 404, 407, 446, 452; blindfolded, 404, 407; of rice deceiving the rice-spirit, 414; pretend to mow down visitors to the harvest-field, 430; remedies for pains in the back, 455 |
| ——, Egyptian, their lamentations, 338, 371, 382, 443, 444 |
| Reaping-match of Lityerses, 426 |
| Rebirth from a golden cow, 197; of ancestors in their descendants, 256 |
| Recall of the soul, 180 |
| Red colour in magic, 15; wool, 242 |
| Red-haired men sacrificed by ancient Egyptians, 378, 380, 443, 476; puppies sacrificed by the Romans, 444, 476 |
| Reddening the face of a god, 148 |
| Reddis or Kapus in Madras Presidency, 73 |
| Reflection, the soul identified with the, 192 |
| Reflections in water, supposed dangers of, 192 |
| Regalia, sanctity of, in Celebes, 295 |
| Regeneration from a golden cow, 197 |
| Regicide among the Slavs, 278; modified custom of, 283 |
| Regifugium at Rome, 157, 301 |
| Reincarnation of animals, 526–527 |
| Relations, names of, tabooed, 249–251; of the dead take new names for fear of the ghost, 253 |