Golden Bough: The Magic Art and the Evolution of Kings, Volume 1


The first volume in Frazer's seminal 12 volume set on anthropology and traditional systems of belief. Topics covered include extensive discussion on the belief in sympathetic and contagious magic, magical influence on the environment, magicians and kings, magicians as priests, the origin of incarnate living gods, and a lengthy essay on the origin on the king of the wood at the lake of Nemi. (Summary by Leon Harvey) (13 hr 46 min)

Chapters

00 - Preface, Preface to the First Edition, Preface to the Second Edition 36:03
01 - CHAPTER 1 THE KING OF THE WOOD. Subchapter 1. Diana and Virbius, The Lake … 1:10:14
02 - CHAPTER II PRIESTLY KINGS, Priestly kings in ancient Italy, Greece, and ot… 14:06
03 - CHAPTER III SYMPATHETIC MAGIC Subchapter 1. The Principles of Magic. The L… 1:03:04
04 - CHAPTER III SYMPATHETIC. Subchapter 2. Homeopathic or Imitative Magic Part… 46:09
05 - Chapter III Sympathetic Magic. subchapter 2. Part 3. homeopathic magic in … 53:33
06 - Chapter III Sympathetic Magic. subchapter 2. Part 4. Homoeopathic Magic to… 1:10:08
07 - Chapter III Sympathetic Magic. subchapter 3. Contagious Magic. Supposed ph… 1:13:50
08 - Chapter III Sympathetic Magic. Subchapter 4. The Magician's Progress, Elev… 10:54
09 - CHAPTER IV MAGIC AND RELIGION, Affinity of magic to science, its fatal fla… 50:17
10 - CHAPTER V MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER. 1. The Public Magician.Two types… 1:04:09
11 - Magical Control of Rain Part 2. rain-making by bathing and springkling of … 59:30
12 - CHAPTER V MAGICAL CONTROL OF THE WEATHER Subchapter 3. The Magical Control… 34:37
13 - CHAPTER VI MAGICIANS AS KINGS. Part 1. Magic not the only road to a throne… 42:15
14 - CHAPTER VI MAGICIANS AS KINGS. Part 2. Kings in Africa and elsewhere punis… 37:53
15 - CHAPTER VII - INCARNATE HUMAN GODS. Part 1. Conception of gods slowly evol… 35:30
16 - CHAPTER VII - INCARNATE HUMAN GODS. Part 2. human gods in Africa, divinity… 56:05
17 - APPENDIX - Hegel on Magic and Religion 7:46