The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 12 of 12)

by James George Frazer

of brave men eaten, viii. 148;

of dead enemies cut out, viii. 271 sq.;

blood drawn from, as penance, ix. 292

Earth, inspired priestess of, i. 381 sq.;

from a grave, magical uses of, i. 147 sq., 150;

spring festival of the marriage of, ii. 76 sq., 94;

conceived by the Greeks as the Mother of corn, cattle, and human beings, ii. 128 n. 4;

praying to Zeus for rain, image of, ii. 359;

festival in honour of, iii. 247;

subterranean, sacrifices to, vii. 66;