The Golden Bough

A Study in Magic and Religion

By

James George Frazer, D.C.L., LL.D., Litt.D.

Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge

Professor of Social Anthropology in the University of Liverpool

Vol. VIII. of XII.

Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild.

Vol. 2 of 2.

New York and London

MacMillan and Co.

1912

Contents

• Chapter IX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.
• § 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull.
• § 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse.
• § 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig.
• § 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull.
• § 5. Virbius and the Horse.
• Chapter X. Eating The God.
• § 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits.
• § 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs.
• § 3. Many Manii at Aricia.
• Chapter XI. The Sacrifice of First-Fruits.
• Chapter XII. Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet.
• Chapter XIII. Killing The Divine Animal.
• § 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard.
• ...