The Golden Bough: pt. 1-2. Spirits of the corn and of the wild. 1912Macmillan and Company, limited, 1912 |
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The Golden Bough: pt. 1-2. Spirits of the corn and of the wild. 1912 James George Frazer Affichage du livre entier - 1912 |
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Page 72 - This feast was the end of the old year and the beginning of the new.
Page 167 - By eating the body of the god he shares in the god's attributes and powers. And when the god is a corn-god...
Page 40 - The history of religion is a long attempt to reconcile old custom with new reason, to find a sound theory for an absurd practice.
Page 320 - The wren, the wren, the king of all birds, St. Stephen's Day was caught in the furze, Although he is little, his family's great, I pray you, good landlady, give us a treat...
Page 319 - Day) he is carried about hung by the leg in the centre of two hoops, crossing each other at right angles, and a procession made in every village of men, women, and children, singing an Irish catch, importing him to be the king of all birds.
Page 204 - On the contrary, to the Indian all objects, animate and inanimate, seem exactly of the same nature, except that they differ in the accident of bodily form.
Page 126 - ... or shelving branch of the tree, or some more temporary altar of a few rough sticks from the bush, lashed together with strips of bark, in the form of a table, with its four feet stuck in the ground. All being quiet, the chief acted as high priest, and prayed aloud thus : ' Compassionate father ! here is some food for you; eat it; be kind to us on account of it.
Page 205 - All flocks and herds, even the beasts of the forest, The birds of the air, and the fishes of the sea, Traversing the paths of the waters.
Page 81 - I inform thee that I intend to eat thee. Mayest thou always help me to ascend, so that I may always be able to reach the tops of mountains, and may I never be clumsy! I ask this from thee, Sunflower-Root. Thou art the greatest of all in mystery.
Page 264 - He told me that they had an obscure story, somewhat resembling that of Jacob wrestling with an angel; and that the full-blooded Indians always separate the sinew which shrank, and that it is never seen in the venison exposed for' sale : he did not know what they did with it.