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

by James George Frazer

the Wheat-bride and Rye-bride at harvest in the, vii. 163;

treatment of man who gives last stroke at threshing at Volders in the, vii. 224;

last thresher said to “strike down the Dog” at Dux in the, vii. 273;

the last thresher called the Goat at Oberinntal in the, vii. 286;

annual “Burning out of the Witches” on May Day in the, ix. 158 sq., x. 160;

the Perchten in the, ix. 240, 242 sq.;

Senseless Thursday in the, ix. 248;

burning the [pg 507] witch on the first Sunday in Lent at Voralberg in the, x. 116;

Midsummer fires in the, x. 172 sq.;

magical plants culled on Midsummer Eve in the, xi. 47;