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

by James George Frazer

in bloom treated like pregnant woman, ii. 28 sq., vii. 183 sq.;

chastity at sowing, ii. 106;

used to attract the soul conceived as a bird, iii. 34 sqq., 45 sqq.;

strewn on bridegroom's head, iii. 35;

used to attract wandering souls, iii. 62;

used in exorcism, iii. 106;

in water, divination by, iii. 368;

special language employed at harvest in order not to frighten the spirit of the, iii. 412;

Dyak story as to the first planting of, iv. 127 sq.;

cultivated in Assam, vii. 123;