Sir James George Frazer (1854–1941). The Golden Bough. 1922.
Subject Index
| thrown at, 649; brought down from the clouds by shots and smoke, 649–650; thought to keep their strength in their hair, 680–681; tortured in India, 681; animal familiars of, 684 |
| Witchetty grubs, 17 |
| Wives, taboos observed by, 21–25 |
| Wizards, 43; Finnish, 81; capture human souls, 187, 188; thought to keep their strength in their hair, 680–681; animal familiars of, 683, 684 |
| Wolf, track of, in contagious magic, 44; corn-spirit as, 448; last sheaf at harvest called, 449, 450; beast-god of Lycopolis in Egypt, 500; ceremonies at killing a, 520, 521; the Green, 628, 652, 664 |
| Wolf society among the Nootka Indians, rite of initiation into, 699 |
| Women, taboos observed by, 20, 25, 26; dances of, 26–28, 64; employed to sow fields on the principle of homoeopathic magic, 28; plough as a rain-charm, 70; worshipped by ancient Germans, 97; married to gods, 142–145; tabooed at menstruation and childbirth, 207–210, 603; not allowed to mention husbands’ names, 249; influence of corn-spirit on, 410; thought to have no soul, 497; ceremonies performed by, to rid fields of vermin, 531; put to death in the character of goddesses in Mexico, 589; impregnated by the sun, 603; dread of menstruous, 603 |
| ——, barren, charms to procure offspring, 14; sterilising influence ascribed to, 29, 137; thought to conceive through eating nuts of a palm-tree, 119; fertilised by trees, 119, 120; thought to blight the fruits of the earth, 137; fertilised by being struck with a certain stick, 581 |
| ——, pregnant, forbidden to spin or twist ropes, 21; not to loiter in the doorways where there are, 22; employed to fertilise crops and fruit-trees, 28 |
| Wonghi tribe of New South Wales, 692 |
| Wood, King of the, at Nemi, 1, 3, 8, 106, 140, 147, 163, 164, 167, 269, 296, 300, 301, 586, 593, 703, 710 |
| Wood-spirits in goat form, 465 |
| Woodmen, ceremonies observed by, at felling trees, 112, 113 |
| Words, tabooed, 244–262; savages take a materialistic view of, 247 |
| World, as regarded by early man, 91 |
| Wotjobaluk tribe in Victoria, 43, 687 |
| Wotyaks, the, of Russia, 143, 559 |
| Wound and weapon, contagious magic of, 41–43 |
| Wrach (Hag), name given to last corn cut in Wales, 403, 404 |
| Wren, hunting the, 536–537 |
| Wünsch, R., 344 |
| Würtemberg, bushes set up on Palm Sunday in, 125; the thresher of the last corn at Tettnang in, 456; effigy of goat at Ellwangen in, 456; leaf-clad mummer at Midsummer in, 653 |
| Wurunjeri tribe of Victoria, 183 |
| Xexxes in Thessaly, 290 |
| Xnumayo tribe of Zulus, 257 |
| Yabim tribe of New Guinea, 213, 597, 694 |
| Yakut shamans and their external souls, 683 |
| Yakuts, 80 |
| Yams, feast of, 200; ceremony at eating the new, 483 |
| Yap, one of the Caroline Islands, 598 |
| Yarilo, the, funeral of, celebrated in Russia, 318 |
| Year, the fixed Alexandrian, 373; the Caffre, 483; the Egyptian, a vague year, 368; the old Roman, 577; the Slavonic, 577 |
| Years, cycle of eight, in ancient Greece, 279; the King of the, in Tibet, 573, 574 |
| Yellow colour in magic, 15 |
| Yezo or Yesso, Japanese island, the Ainos of, 505, 507 |
| Ynglingar family, 155 |
| Yorkshire, “burning the Old Witch” in, 429; clergyman cuts the first corn in, 481 |
| Yorubas of West Africa, 230, 256, 273, 570 |
| Youths and maidens, tribute of, sent to Minos, 280 |
| Yuin tribe of New South Wales, 191 |
| Yuki Indians of California, 27 |
| Yukon River, the Lower, the Esquimaux of, 193 |
| Yule Boar, 461–462, 478; log, 636–638, 641, 643, 646 |
| Yuracares of Eastern Bolivia, 601 |
| Zafimanelo, the, of Madagascar, 198 |
| Zagmuk, Babylonian festival, 281 |
| Zagreus, a form of Dionysus, 388 |
| Zaparo Indians of Ecuador, 495 |
| Zapotecs of Central America, 687; the pontiff of the, 170, 593, 595 |
| Zara-mama, Maize Mother, 413 |
| Zemis of Assam, 248 |
| Zeus, rain made by, 71; the priest of, makes rain by an oak branch, 77; mimicked by King Salmoneus, 77; marriage with Demeter at Eleusis, 142; and Hera, 143, 159; and Dione, 151, 165; as god of the oak, the rain, and the thunder, 159; his oracular oak at Dodona, 159; prayed to for rain, 159; Greek kings called, 159; surnamed Thunderbolt, 159; his resemblance to Donar, Thor, Perun, and Perkunas, 160–161; the grave of, 265; his oracular cave on Mount Ida, 280; his intrigue with Persephone, 388; said to have transferred the sceptre to young Dionysus, 388; father of Dionysus by Demeter, 389; his appearance to Hercules in the shape of a ram, 500; and Danae, 602 |
| Zeus, the Descender, places struck by lightning consecrated to, 159; Heavenly, at Sparta, 9; Lacedaemon, at Sparta, 9; Laphystian, 290–292; Lightning, sacrificial hearth of, 159; Polieus in Cos, 466 |
| Zimbas, or Muzimbas, of South-east Africa, 97 |
| Zoganes, temporary king at Babylon, put to death after a reign of five days, 282 |