Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume II

by James Frazer

Social Science (Culture & Anthropology)Other religions

15 chapters10h 26mEnglish1913

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The eleventh volume of The Golden Bough series. Fire festivals in exotic nations, magical properties of flowers, the concept of the external soul, and a proposal to solve the mystery of ritual of the golden bough. Frazer's extensive researches into the origin, the evolution, and the meaning of killing of the king of the wood, is summarised with the help of analogies from the myths of other cultures, and finally explained as a symbolic cycle of death, rebirth, and the recharging of the sacred powers of the natural world thought to come from gods to man. (Summary by Leon Harvey)

Chapters (15)

1VI. Fire Festivals in other Lands

2392

2VII. The Burning of Human Beings in the Fire

2797

3VIII. The Magic Flowers of Midsummer Eve

3388

4IX. Balder and the Mistletoe

2066

5X. The External Soul in Folk-tales. Part 1.

4115

6X. The External Soul in Folk-tales. Part 2

3564

7XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 1.

749

8XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 2

4094

9XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 3

2725

10XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 4

724

11XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 5

3469

12XI. The External Soul in Folk-custom. Part 6

2742

13XII. The Golden Bough

2667

14XIII. Farewell to Nemi

688

15NOTES. I. Snake Stones. II. The Transformation of Witches into Cats. III. African Balders. IV. The Mistletoe and the Golden Bough

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Golden Bough. Part VII. Balder The Beautiful. Volume II

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