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1: The Golden Bough: a study of magic and religion
2: It may be convenient to tabulate as follows the branches of
3: Among the western tribes of British New Guinea, a man who has killed
4: But if religion involves, first, a belief in superhuman beings who
5: Women are sometimes supposed to be able to make rain by ploughing,
6: Perhaps the last relic of such superstitions which lingered about
7: IX. The Worship of Trees
8: In Ruhla as soon as the trees begin to grow green in spring, the
9: 2. The King as Jupiter
10: XVII. The Burden of Royalty
11: Again, souls may be extracted from their bodies or detained on their
12: The rule which forbids persons who have been in contact with the
13: 3. Sharp Weapons tabooed
14: In this last case no scruple seems to be felt about communicating a
15: 2. Kings killed when their Strength fails
16: Such were the duties and privileges of the Siamese King Hop down to
17: In Normandy on the evening of Ash Wednesday it used to be the custom
18: Thus the old magical theory of the seasons was displaced, or rather
19: Customs of the same sort are observed at the same season in Sicily.
20: Meantime the coffer containing the body of Osiris had floated down
21: XLII. Osiris and the Sun
22: In County Antrim, down to some years ago, when the sickle was
23: XLVII. Lityerses
24: In the light of the foregoing discussion the Egyptian tradition of
25: 10. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit
26: At the close of the rice harvest in the East Indian island of Buru,
27: 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent
28: The reverence of hunters for the bear whom they regularly kill and
29: The Bataks of Sumatra have a ceremony which they call "making the
30: "_Witch flee, flee from here, or it will go ill with thee._"
31: Thus far I have assumed that the human victims at the Thargelia
32: Amongst the Tlingit (Thlinkeet) or Kolosh Indians of Alaska, when a
33: Another writer of the eighteenth century has described the Beltane
34: The history of the custom can be traced from the early Middle Ages,
35: LXV. Balder and the Mistletoe
36: Ideas of the same sort meet us in stories told by the North American
37: Among some of the Indian tribes of North America there exist certain
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