The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion, Volume 2Macmillan, 1890 - 816 sider |
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Side 18
... hands and danced round the oak and the pole . Afterwards they scrambled for the bunch of corn , and the priest distributed the herbs with a sparing hand . Then he placed the goat - skin on the large stone , sat down on it and preached ...
... hands and danced round the oak and the pole . Afterwards they scrambled for the bunch of corn , and the priest distributed the herbs with a sparing hand . Then he placed the goat - skin on the large stone , sat down on it and preached ...
Side 20
... hand , in the district of Rosenheim , in Upper Bavaria , when a farmer is later in getting in his harvest than his neighbours , they set up on his land a Straw - bull , as it is called . This is a gigantic figure of a bull made of ...
... hand , in the district of Rosenheim , in Upper Bavaria , when a farmer is later in getting in his harvest than his neighbours , they set up on his land a Straw - bull , as it is called . This is a gigantic figure of a bull made of ...
Side 28
... hand into the dish and take out as many small dumplings ( " sucking - pigs " ) as he can , while the other threshers strike at his hand with spoons or sticks . When the dumplings are served up by the maid- servant , all the people at ...
... hand into the dish and take out as many small dumplings ( " sucking - pigs " ) as he can , while the other threshers strike at his hand with spoons or sticks . When the dumplings are served up by the maid- servant , all the people at ...
Side 38
... hand , it is quite certain that many Aryan peoples have conceived deities of vegetation as embodied in animal forms . Therefore when we find amongst an Aryan people like the Greeks a deity of vegetation represented as an animal , the ...
... hand , it is quite certain that many Aryan peoples have conceived deities of vegetation as embodied in animal forms . Therefore when we find amongst an Aryan people like the Greeks a deity of vegetation represented as an animal , the ...
Side 46
... hands , brought up the remains and placed them on the altar . Whoever got a piece of the decayed flesh and cakes , and sowed it with the seed - corn in his field , was believed to be sure of a good crop . To explain this rude and ...
... hands , brought up the remains and placed them on the altar . Whoever got a piece of the decayed flesh and cakes , and sowed it with the seed - corn in his field , was believed to be sure of a good crop . To explain this rude and ...
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Ainos Amongst animal annually Anthrop appears Balder Bastian Bavaria bear believed Beltane Bidasari bird blood boar body bones bonfires boys bull burned called carried Celts ceremony chief clan cock corn-spirit crops custom dance dead death Demeter demons devils Dionysus divine driven eaten effigy evil expulsion feast festival field first-fruits fish flesh Gebräuche girl goat Golden Bough Grimm hand harvest head Herodotus horse Indians island Journ killed kindled king last corn last sheaf live Mannhardt Midsummer Eve mistletoe myth nagual need-fire offered Osiris Pausanias Plutarch priest primitive reapers represented rice rites round sacramentally sacred sacrifice sacrificed Sagen Salii savage scapegoat Shrove Tuesday Sitten skin slain sometimes soul spirit story straw supposed Swabia Thesmophoria threshing throw torches totem tree tribe vegetation village Virbius Wolf woman women wood worship wren yams young
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Side 256 - They kindle a fire, and dress a repast of eggs and milk in the consistence of a custard. They knead a cake of oatmeal, which is toasted at the embers against a stone. After the custard is eaten up, they divide the cake...
Side 308 - is far from here and hard to find, on the wide ocean. In that sea is an island, and on the island there grows a green oak, and beneath the oak is an iron chest, and in the chest is a small basket, and in the basket is a hare, and in the hare is a duck, and in the duck is an egg ; and he who finds the egg and breaks it, kills me at the same time.
Side 348 - Upon this occasion it is pretended that these poor creatures drink so much of that water of Lethe that they perfectly lose the remembrance of all former things, even of their parents, their treasure, and their language. When the doctors find that they have drank sufficiently of the wysoccan (so they call this mad potion) they gradually restore them to their senses again, by lessening the intoxication of their diet; but before they are perfectly well they bring them back into their towns, while they...
Side 202 - ... to effect a total clearance of all the ills that have been infesting a people. If any link were wanting to connect the two kinds of expulsion, it would be furnished by such a practice as that of sending the evils away in a litter or a boat. For here, on the one hand, the evils are invisible and intangible; and, on the other hand, there is a visible and tangible vehicle to convey them away.
Side 242 - In short, the girl is viewed as charged with a powerful force which, if not kept within bounds, may prove the destruction both of the girl herself and of all with whom she comes in contact. To repress this force within the limits necessary for the safety of all concerned is the object of the taboos in question.
Side 166 - Others seized burning brands or coals and flung them at the heads of the first persons they met. The only way of escaping from these persecutors was to guess what they had dreamed of. On one day of the festival the ceremony of driving away evil spirits from the village took place. Men clothed in the skins of wild beasts, their faces covered with hideous masks, and their hands with the shell of the tortoise, went from hut to hut making frightful noises ; in every hut they took the fuel from the fire...
Side 142 - ... for amusement. On St. Stephen's day a group of boys' go from door to door with a wren, suspended by the legs, in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, decorated with evergreens and ribbons...
Side 240 - According to Pliny, the touch of a menstruous woman turned wine to vinegar, blighted crops, killed seedlings, blasted gardens, brought down the fruit from trees, dimmed mirrors, blunted razors, rusted iron and brass (especially at the waning of the moon), killed bees, or at least drove them from their hives, caused mares to miscarry, and so forth.
Side 256 - ... for each of the company must contribute something. The rites begin with spilling some of the caudle on the ground, by way of libation : on that every one takes a cake of oatmeal, upon which are raised nine square knobs, each dedicated to some particular being, the supposed preserver of their flocks and herds, or to some particular animal, the real destroyer of them : each person then turns his face to the fire, breaks off a knob, and flinging it over his shoulders, says, ' This I give to thee,...
Side 172 - Their nature appears to undergo a temporary change. Sons and daughters revile their parents in gross language, and parents their children ; men and women become almost like animals in the indulgence of their amorous propensities.