Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
Talmud, the, on menstruous women, 604 |
Talos, legend of, 280 |
Tamarind tree, sacred, 118 |
Tammuz, or Adonis, 325; the lover of Ishtar, 325; laments for, 326; mourned for at Jerusalem, 327; as a corn-spirit, 338; his bones ground in a mill, 338, 442; perhaps represented by the mock king of Sacaea, 442–443 |
Tana (Tanna), one of the New Hebrides, contagious magic of clothes in, 43; magic practised on refuse of food in, 201 |
Tapio, woodland god in Finland, 141 |
Tar barrel, burning, swung round pole at Midsummer, 625 |
Tara, capital of ancient Ireland, 173, 273 |
Tari Pennu, earth goddess, 434 |
Taro plants beaten to make them grow, 581 |
Tarquin the Elder, 152 |
—— the Proud, 150 |
Tartar Khan, ceremony at visiting a, 198 |
—— stories of the external soul, 675, 676 |
Tartars, the Buddhist, 102 |
Tasmania, 252 |
Tatius, king of Rome, 152, 158 |
Tattoo marks of priests of Attis, 352 |
Tattooing in the Punjaub, 180 |
Tauric Diana, her image brought by Orestes to Italy, 2; only to be appeased with human blood, 6 |
Taygetus, Mount, sacrifices to the sun on, 79 |
Taylor, Rev. J. C., 570 |
Teeth, contagious magic of, 38–39; of rats and mice in magic, 39; of ancestor in magical ceremony, 78; of sacred kings preserved as amulets, 109; loss of supposed effect of breaking a taboo, 206; as a rain-charm, 234; extracted, kept against the resurrection, 236 |
Tegner, Swedish poet, 664 |
Tein-eigin, need-fire, in Scotland, 617, 618 |
Telepathy, magical, 22, 24, 25 |
Telugus, their way of stopping rain, 64 |
Temple at Jerusalem, built without iron, 225 |
Temples built in honour of living kings of Babylon, and of Egypt, 104 |
Tenedos, isle of, 291, 392 |
Tepehuanes of Mexico, 193 |
Teton Indians, 524 |
Teutonic kings as priests, 9; stories of the external soul, 672; thunder-god, 160 |
Tezcatlipoco, Mexican god, 587 |
Thargelia, Greek festival of the, 579, 582 |
Thebes, the Boeotian, grave of Dionysus at, 389 |
Thebes, in Egypt, 142, 174; Valley of the Kings at, 377; annual sacrifice of ram to Ammon at, 477, 500 |
Theddora tribe of South-east Australia, 498 |
Theocracies in America, 170 |
Theogamy, divine marriage, 140 |
Theology distinguished from religion, 50 |
Theseus and Hippolytus, 4 |
Thesmophoria, ancient Greek festival, 353, 371, 389, 469, 470 |
Thevet, F. A., 88 |
Thieves’ candles, 30, 31, 56 |
Thlinkeet or Tlingit Indians, 234, 528, 600 |
Thompson Indians of British Columbia, 27, 45, 487, 708 |
Thonga, Bantu tribe of South Africa, 708 |
Thor, the Norse thunder-god, 160 |
Thorn bushes to keep off ghosts, 207 |
Thorns, wreaths of, hung up as a sign to warn off strangers, 558 |
Thoth, Egyptian god of wisdom, 362, 364 |
Thrace, worship of Dionysus in, 386; the Bacchanals of, 390; human scapegoat in, 579 |
Thracian gods ruddy and blue-eyed, 260 |
Thread, use of, in magic, 181, 242, 545 |
Thresher of the last corn, 400, 405–406, 448, 456, 458, 460 |
Thresher-cow, in the Canton of Zurich, 458 |
Threshing, customs at, 400, 405, 418, 428–429, 431, 448, 449, 451, 453, 456, 458, 460 |
Threshing-dog, 448 |
Thrumalum, mythical being in Australia, 693 |
Thunar or Donar, German thunder-god, 160 |
Thunder, imitation of, 63; kings expected to make, 149; expiation for hearing, 174; Midsummer fires a protection against, 627, 629 |
Thunder-beings, 524; -besom, 662, 709; -bird, the mythical, 599; -god, 161 |
Thunderbolt, Zeus surnamed the, 159 |
Thuremlin, a mythical being, 692 |
Thüringen, homoeopathic magic at sowing flax in, 28; May King in, 129; Whitsuntide mummers in, 298, 300; carrying out Death in, 308; customs at threshing in, 405, 458; the Harvest-cock in, 451; “the Boar in the corn” in, 460; Midsummer fires in, 656 |
Tiber, puppets thrown into the, 493 |
Tibet, the Grand Lamas of, 102; incarnate human gods in, 103; vicarious use of images in, 492; human scapegoats in, 572 |
Tibetan new year, 572 |
Tides, homoeopathic magic of the, 34, 35 |
Tigers, respected in Sumatra, 519 |
Timmes, the, of Sierra Leone, 176 |
Timor, island of, telepathy in, 26; fetish or taboo rajah in, 177; war customs in, 212; transference of fatigue to leaves in, 540 |
Timorlaut Islands, 526, 564 |
Tinneh or Déné Indians, 208; of North-west America, 486 |
Titans kill Dionysus, 388 |
Tiyans of Malabar, 602 |
Tlingit or Thlinkeet Indians, 234, 528, 600 |
Tlokoala, a secret society of the Nootka Indians, 699 |
Toads in relation to rain, 73 |
Tobacco, used as an emetic, 484–485 |
Tobacco smoke, priest inspired by, 95 |
Toboongkoo, the, of Central Celebes, 116 |
Todas, a tribe of Southern India, 100, 175, 534 |
Togoland, expulsion of devils in, 555 |
Tolalaki, the, of Central Celebes, 498 |
Tolampoos, the, of Central Celebes, 244 |
Tomori, the, of Central Celebes, 116, 416 |
Tonapoo, the, of Central Celebes, 117 |
Tonga, chief’s touch thought to heal scrofula in, 90; veneration paid to divine chiefs in, 177; kings of, 203, 231; tabooed persons not allowed to handle food in, 206; ceremony performed after contact with a sacred chief in, 473 |