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Klappentext A supplement to Frazer's The Golden Bough, this 1936 work remains an important text for scholars of religion and anthropology. Zusammenfassung After the completion of the twelve-volume third edition of The Golden Bough in 1915, Sir James Frazer (1854–1941) found that he had more to say. Conceived as a supplement to his great work, Aftermath was published in 1936, and its insights remain relevant to scholars of religion and anthropology. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Magic; 2. The magical control of the weather; 3. Magicians as kings; 4. Incarnate human gods; 5. Departmental kings of nature; 6. The worship of trees; 7. Relics of tree-worship in Europe; 8. The influence of the sexes on vegetation; 9. The sacred marriage; 10. The king's fire; 11. The fire-drill; 12. Father Jove and Mother Vesta; 13. The origin of perpetual fires; 14. The succession to the kingdom in ancient Latium; 15. St George and the parilia; 16. The oak; 17. Dianus and Diana; 18. Royal and priestly taboos; 19. The perils of the soul; 20. Tabooed acts; 21. Tabooed persons; 22. Tabooed things; 23. Tabooed words; 24. The killing of the divine king; 25. The fairy wife; 26. Temporary kings; 27. Sacrifice of the king's son; 28. Killing the tree-spirit; 29. Swinging as a magical rite; 30. The myth of Adonis; 31. Consecration by anointing; 32. Reincarnation of the dead; 33. Volcanic religion; 34. The gardens of Adonis; 35. The rituals of Attis; 36. Attis as the father god; 37. On head-hunting; 38. The tears of Isis; 39. The star of Isis; 40. Feasts of all souls; 41. Mother-kin and mother goddesses; 42. Marriage of brothers with sisters; 43. Children of living parents in ritual; 44. Blind victims in sacrifice; 45. Men dressed as women; 46. Children in winnowing-fans; 47. Magical significance of games in primitive agriculture; 48. Women's part in primitive agriculture; 49. Personification of the corn-spirit at harvest; 50. Human sacrifices for the crops; 51. The corn-spirit as an animal; 52. The Pleiades in primitive agriculture; 53. A primitive form of purification; 54. The Maniae at Aricia; 55. Attempts to deceive demons; 56. The sacrifice of first-fruits; 57. Homoeopathic magic of a flesh diet; 58. The propitiation of wild animals by hunters; 59. The transmigration of human souls into animals; 60. The transference of evil; 61. The omnipresence of demons; 62. The public expulsion of evils; 63. Public scapegoats; 64. The Saturnalia and kindred festivals; 65. Not to touch the earth; 66. Not to see the sun; 67. The seclusion of girls at puberty; 68. The fire festivals of Europe; 69. Were-wolves; 70. The fire-walk; 71. The magic flowers of Midsummer Eve; 72. The external soul in folk-tales; 73. The external soul in folk-custom; 74. The ritual of death and resurrection; 75. The mistletoe; Index....
