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A world classic. "The Golden Bough" describes our ancestors' primitive methods of worship, sex practices, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic,... Read Full Overview

James Frazer's monumental study of world mythology and folklore has been a controversial work for over a century. The Golden Bough is "a great body of primitive and barbarous beliefs" and essential reading for anyone interested in mythology, supernatural magic or religion,... Read Full Overview

How is this book unique? Font adjustments & biography included Unabridged (100% Original content) Illustrated About The Golden Bough by James George Frazer The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion (retitled The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion in its second... Read Full Overview

The Primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia. (...) If in the present work I have dwelt at some length on the worship of trees, it is not, I trust, because I exaggerate its importance in the... Read Full Overview

The landmark study of world myth and culture

Sir James George Frazer is widely considered the father of anthropology, and a lot of that is due to his most famous work, The Golden Bough, which looked at how different societies across the globe formed similar belief systems based off beliefs in magic, religion and/or science... Read Full Overview

The Golden Bough attempts to define the shared elements of religious belief. Its thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship of, and periodic sacrifice of, a sacred king. Published in 1890 it offered a modernist approach to discussing religion... Read Full Overview

Sir James George Frazer originally set out to discover the origins of one ancient custom in Classical Rome - the plucking of the Golden Bough from a tree in the sacred grove of Diana, and the murderous succession of the priesthood there - and was led by his invetigations into... Read Full Overview

This edition of The Golden Bough A study of magic and religion by Sir James George Frazer is given by Golden - Million Book Edition