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Table of Contents

       Preface

       I. The King of the Wood

       II. Priestly Kings

       III. Sympathetic Magic

       IV. Magic and Religion

       V. The Magical Control of the Weather

       VI. Magicians as Kings

       VII. Incarnate Human Gods

       VIII. Departmental Kings of Nature

       IX. The Worship of Trees

       X. Relics of Tree Worship in Modern Europe

       XI. The Influence of the Sexes on Vegetation

       XII. The Sacred Marriage

       XIII. The Kings of Rome and Alba

       XIV. The Succession to the Kingdom in Ancient Latium

       XV. The Worship of the Oak

       XVI. Dianus and Diana

       XVII. The Burden of Royalty

       XVIII. The Perils of the Soul

       XIX. Tabooed Acts

       XX. Tabooed Persons

       XXI. Tabooed Things

       XXII. Tabooed Words

       XXIII. Our Debt to the Savage

       XXIV. The Killing of the Divine King

       XXV. Temporary Kings

       XXVI. Sacrifice of the King’s Son

       XXVII. Succession to the Soul

       XXVIII. The Killing of the Tree-Spirit

       XXIX. The Myth of Adonis

       XXX. Adonis in Syria

       XXXI. Adonis in Cyprus

       XXXII. The Ritual of Adonis

       XXXIII. The Gardens of Adonis

       XXXIV. The Myth and Ritual of Attis

       XXXV. Attis as a God of Vegetation

       XXXVI. Human Representatives of Attis

       XXXVII. Oriental Religions in the West

       XXXVIII. The Myth of Osiris

       XXXIX. The Ritual of Osiris

       XL. The Nature of Osiris

       XLI. Isis

       XLII. Osiris and the Sun

       XLIII. Dionysus

       XLIV. Demeter and Persephone

       XLV. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe

       XLVI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands

       XLVII. Lityerses

       XLVIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal

       XLIX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals

       L. Eating the God

       LI. Homeopathic Magic