- Preface
- Preface to the First Edition of The Golden Bough
- Preface to the Second Edition of The Golden Bough (1900)
- The King of the Wood
- Diana and Virbius
- The lake and sanctuary of Diana at Nemi
- the character of Diana and Nemi
- rule of succession to the priesthood
- legends of its origin
- features of the worship of Diana at Nemi
- Diana’s festival on the 13th of August
- the companions of Diana, Egeria
- Virbius
- unhistorical character of the traditions
- antiquity of the grove
- Artemis and Hippolytus
- Hippolytus at Troezen
- hair-offerings to Hippolytus and others
- graves of Apollo and Artemis at Delos
- Artemis a goddess of the wild life of nature
- Hippolytus the consort of Artemis
- Recapitulation
- Virbius the consort of Diana
- the leafy bust at Nemi
- Priestly Kings
- Priestly kings in ancient Italy, Greece, and other parts of the world
- divinity of Spartan and other early kings
- magical powers of early kings
- Sympathetic Magic
- The Principles of Magic
- The Law of Similarity and the Law of Contact or Contagion
- The two principle misapplications of the association of ideas
- Sympathetic Magic in its two branches, Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic, and Contagious Magic
- Homoeopathic or Imitative Magic
- Magical images to injure enemeies
- magical images to procure offspring
- simulation of birth at adoption and circumcision
- magical images to procure love
- homoeopathic magic in medicine
- homoeopathic magic to ensure the food supply
- magical ceremonies (intichiuma) in Central Australia for the multiplication of the totems
- human blood in Australian ceremonies
- suggested origin of circumcision and of other Australian initiatory rites, particularly the extraction of teeth
- certain funeral rites design to ensure rebirth
- rites to secure rebirth of animals and plants
- general theory of magical (intichiuma) and iniatory rites in Australia
- homoeopathic magic in fishing and hunting
- negative magic or taboo
- examples of homoeopathic taboos
- homoeopathic taboos on food
- magical telepathy
- telepathy in hunting
- telepathy in war
- various cases of homoeopathic magic
- homoeopathic magic to make plants grow
- persons influenced homoeopathically by plants
- homoeopathic magic of the dead
- homoeopathic magic of animals
- homoeopathic magic of inanimate things
- homoeopathic magic of iron
- homoeopathic magic of stones
- homoeopathic magic of sun, moon and stars
- homoeopathic magic of the tides
- homoeopathic magic of grave-clothes and city sites in China
- homoeopathic magic to avert misfortune
- Contagious Magic
- Supposed physical basis of sympathetic magic
- effect of contagious magic in fostering cleanliness
- contagious magic of teeth
- contagious magic of navel-string and afterbirth or placenta
- afterbirth or navel-string a seat of the external soul
- contagious magic of wounds and spilt blood
- contagious magic of garments
- contagious magic of footprints and other bodily impressions
- The Magician’s Progress
- Elevation of public magicians to the position of chiefs and kings
- rise of monarchy essential to the emergence of manking from savagery
- Magic and Religion
- Affinity of magic to science
- its fatal flaw
- relation of magic to religion, definition of religion
- opposition of principle between magic and science on the one side and religion on the other
- hostility of religion to magic in later history
- confusion of magic and religion in early times and among savages
- confusion of magic and religion in modern Europe
- confusion of magic and religion preceded by an earlier age in which magic existed without religion
- universality of the belief in magic among the ignorant classes at the present day
- resulting danger to civilisation
- changes from magic to religion following the recognition of the inefficacy of magic
- the early gods viewed as magicians
- difficulty of detecting the fallacy of magic
- The Magical Control of the Weather
- The Public Magician
- Two types of man-god, the religious and the magical
- rise of a class of public magicians a step in social and intellectual progress
- Magical control of rain
- Importance of the magical control of the weather, especially of rain
- rain-making based on homoeopathic or imitative magic
- examples of rain-making by homoeopathic or imitative magic
- stopping rain by fire
- rain-making among the Australian aborigines
- belief that twins control the weather, especially the rain
- the rain-maker makes himself wet, the maker of dry weather keeps himself dry
- rain-making by means of leaf-clad girls or boys in south-eastern Europe and India
- rain-making by means of puppets in Armenia and Syria
- rain-making by bathing and sprinkling of water
- beneficial effects of curses
- rain-making by women ploughing
- rain-making by means of the dead
- rain-making by means of animals, especially black animal
- rain-making by means of frogs
- stopping rain by rabbits and serpents
- doing violence to the rain-god in order to extort rain
- compelling saints in Sicily to give rain
- disturbing the rain-god in his haunts
- appealing to the pity of the rain-gods
- rain-making by means of stones
- rain-making in classical antiquity
- The Magical control of the Sun
- Helping the sun in eclipse
- various charms to make sunshine
- human sacrifices to the sun in ancient Mexico
- sacrifice of horses to the sun
- staying the sun by means of a net or string or by putting a stone or sod in a tree
- accelerating the moon
- The Magical Control of the Wind
- Various charms for making the wind blow or be still
- winds raised by wizards and wtiches
- fighting the spirit of the wind
- Magicians as Kings
- Magic not the only road to a throne
- danger of too simple and comprehensive theories
- discredit which such theories have brought on mythology
- magic only a partial explanation of the rise of kings
- social importance of magicians among the aborigines of Australia
- social importance of magicians in New Guinea
- magical powers of chiefs and others in Melanesia
- evolution of chiefs or kings out of magicians, especially out of rain-makers, in Africa
- kings in Africa and elsewhere punished for drought and dearth
- power of medicine-men among the American Indians
- power of medicine-men among the pagan tribes of the Malay Peninsula
- development of kings out of magicians among the Malays
- magical virtue of regalia
- magical powers of kings among the Aryan races
- touching for the King’s Evil
- general conclusion
- Incarnate Human Gods
- Conception of gods slowly evolved
- decline of magic
- conception of incarnate human gods an early stage of religious history
- incarnation either temporary or permanent
- temporary incarnation of gods in human form in Polynesia, Fiji, Bali, and Celebes
- temporary deification of sacrificer in Brahman ritual
- the new birth
- temporary incarnation or inspiration produced by drinking blood
- temporary inspiration produced by sacred tree or plant
- inspired sacrificial victims
- divine power acquired by temporary inspiration
- human gods in the Pacific
- human gods in ancient Egypt, Greece and Germany
- human gods in Africa
- divinity of kings and men in the East Indies
- divine kings and men in Burma, Siam and Tonquin
- human gods in India
- pretenders to divinity among Christians
- transmigrations of human divinities, especially of the divine Lamas
- incarnate human gods in the Chinese empire
- divine kings of Peru and Mexico
- divinity of the emperors of China and Japan
- divinity of early kings
- divinity of Egyptian kings
- conclusion, development of sacred kings out of magicians
- Appendix: Hegel on Magic and Religion
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