The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (Vol. 2 of 2)

The Golden Bough
A Study in Comparative Religion
James George Frazer, M.A.
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge
In Two Volumes.
Vol. II.
New York and London
MacMillan and Co.
1894


In some of the examples cited above to establish the meaning of the term “neck” as applied to the last sheaf, the corn-spirit appears in animal form as a gander, a goat, a hare, a cat, and a fox. This introduces us to a new aspect of the corn-spirit, which we must now examine. By doing so we shall not only have fresh examples of killing the god, but may hope also to clear up some points which remain obscure in the myths and worship of Attis, Adonis, Osiris, Dionysus, Demeter, and Virbius.