Frazer. Golden Bough (V). Spirits of the Corn.

Today's free book is The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Part V: Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild (Third Edition, Volumes 7-8 of 12) by James George Frazer.

For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image. The most convenient online edition is at Project Gutenberg: Volume 7 and Volume 8.

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Chapter I. Dionysus.

Chapter II. Demeter And Persephone.

Chapter III. Magical Significance of Games in Primitive Agriculture.

Chapter IV. Woman's Part in Primitive Agriculture.

Chapter V. The Corn-Mother and the Corn-Maiden in Northern Europe.

Chapter VI. The Corn-Mother in Many Lands.
§ 1. The Corn-mother in America.
§ 2. The Mother-cotton in the Punjaub.
§ 3. The Barley Bride among the Berbers.
§ 4. The Rice-mother in the East Indies.
§ 5. The Spirit of the Corn embodied in Human Beings.
§ 6. The Double Personification of the Corn as Mother and Daughter.

Chapter VII. Lityerses.
§ 1. Songs of the Corn Reapers.
§ 2. Killing the Corn-spirit.
§ 3. Human Sacrifices for the Crops.
§ 4. The Corn-spirit slain in his Human Representatives.

Chapter VIII. The Corn-Spirit as an Animal.
§ 1. Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit.
§ 2. The Corn-spirit as a Wolf or a Dog.
§ 3. The Corn-spirit as a Cock.
§ 4. The Corn-spirit as a Hare.
§ 5. The Corn-spirit as a Cat.
§ 6. The Corn-spirit as a Goat.
§ 7. The Corn-spirit as a Bull, Cow, or Ox.
§ 8. The Corn-spirit as a Horse or Mare.
§ 9. The Corn-spirit as a Bird.
§ 10. The Corn-spirit as a Fox.
§ 11. The Corn-spirit as a Pig (Boar or Sow).
§ 12. On the Animal Embodiments of the Corn-spirit.

Note. The Pleiades in Primitive Calendars.

Volume 8 begins here:

Chapter IX. Ancient Deities of Vegetation as Animals.
§ 1. Dionysus, the Goat and the Bull.
§ 2. Demeter, the Pig and the Horse.
§ 3. Attis, Adonis, and the Pig.
§ 4. Osiris, the Pig and the Bull.
§ 5. Virbius and the Horse.

Chapter X. Eating The God.
§ 1. The Sacrament of First-Fruits.
§ 2. Eating the God among the Aztecs.
§ 3. Many Manii at Aricia.

Chapter XI. The Sacrifice of First-Fruits.

Chapter XII. Homoeopathic Magic of a Flesh Diet.

Chapter XIII. Killing The Divine Animal.
§ 1. Killing the Sacred Buzzard.
§ 2. Killing the Sacred Ram.
§ 3. Killing the Sacred Serpent.
§ 4. Killing the Sacred Turtles.
§ 5. Killing the Sacred Bear.

Chapter XIV. The Propitiation of Wild Animals by Hunters.

Chapter XV. The Propitiation of Vermin by Farmers.
§ 1. The Enemies of the Crops.
§ 2. Mouse Apollo and Wolf Apollo.

Chapter XVI. The Transmigration of Human Souls Into Animals.

Chapter XVII. Types of Animal Sacrament.
§ 1. The Egyptian and the Aino Types of Sacrament.
§ 2. Processions with Sacred Animals.
§ 3. The Rites of Plough Monday.

Note: The Ceremony of the Horse at Rice-Harvest Among The Garos.