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

by James George Frazer

beaten to expel demons, ix. 113, 117, 118, 147

Gontiyalamma, mud figure of, in a rain-making ceremony, i. 294

Good Friday, barren fruit-trees threatened on, ii. 22;

Highland superstitions as to, iii. 229;

effigies and sepulchres of Christ on, iv. 284, v. 254 sqq.;

of ancient Greece, vii. 33;

expulsion of witches in Silesia on, ix. 157;

absolution of man called Adam at Halberstadt on the day before, ix. 214;

cattle beaten on, ix. 266;

custom of beating each other with rods on, ix. 268;