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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough in 1890, he intended to explain a single curiosity from Roman antiquity: the strange rule by which the priesthood of Diana at Nemi, in the Alban hills south of Rome, passed from man to man by murder. What followed over the next thirty years was one of the most ambitious intellectual undertakings in the history of the human sciences - a twelve-volume comparative study of magic, religion, and kingship drawing on sources from ancient Babylon and classical Greece, from the rain-making ceremonies of sub-Saharan Africa and the harvest customs of rural Bavaria, from the totem rituals of Aboriginal Australia and the divine kingships of ancient Mexico, from the peasant folklore of Sweden, Scotland, and Slavic Europe, and from the mystery religions of the ancient Near East.The work is organized around a series of interlocking questions, each arising from the last. Why did the priest of Nemi hold office only by killing his predecessor? Why was the sacred king killed? Why was this power magical rather than religious in the modern sense? And why does this pattern - the divine king, the ritual death, the resurrection, the transfer of sacred power - recur so consistently across cultures with no historical contact with each other?In pursuing these questions Frazer assembled evidence for a pattern of myth and ritual centred on a dying and rising god whose death and resurrection were enacted annually in agricultural ceremonies across the ancient world. Adonis, mourned by the women of Syria and Greece; Attis, the self-castrated consort of Cybele; Osiris, dismembered by Set and reassembled by Isis; Tammuz of Babylon, for whom the women wept at the gate; Dionysus, torn apart and reborn; the corn spirit of European harvest ritual, killed in the last sheaf and reborn in the first shoots of spring - all are shown to be local expressions of the same underlying myth, rooted in the same agricultural anxiety about the death and return of vegetative life.Vols. I and II establish the theoretical foundations: the two branches of sympathetic magic, the public magician as precursor of the king, and the relationship between magic, religion, and science. Vols. III and IV examine the principles of taboo in their application to sacred kings and priests. Vols. V through VIII are devoted to the spirits of the corn and of the wild - the vast body of European and non-European agricultural ritual centred on the death and resurrection of vegetative spirits. Vols. IX and X examine the scapegoat, the ritual transfer of collective guilt onto a human or animal victim who is then expelled or killed. Vols. XI and XII, Balder the Beautiful, bring the argument back to northern Europe with the Norse myth of Balder's death by mistletoe and the suggestion that the golden bough of the title was itself a piece of mistletoe cut from the sacred oak.Throughout all twelve volumes Frazer writes not as a specialist addressing specialists but as a scholar addressing the educated general reader - in prose of unusual clarity and occasional splendour, unhurried in its accumulation of evidence. The opening scene of Vol. I, in which he reconstructs the figure of the priest of Nemi pacing his grove on a wild autumn night, a glitter of steel at his shoulder whenever the pale moon peers down through the matted boughs, remains one of the great set pieces of Victorian prose.This Ex Arche edition presents the twelve volumes of the third edition as facsimiles of the original Macmillan printings, without editorial intervention in the text. Each volume reproduces the original pagination, footnotes, and typography. A new preface introducing the complete series appears in Vol. I only. Why did the priest of Diana at Nemi hold office only by killing his predecessor? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough in 1890, he intended to explain a single curiosity from Roman antiquity: the strange rule by which the priesthood of Diana at Nemi, in the Alban hills south of Rome, passed from man to man by murder. What followed over the next thirty years was one of the most ambitious intellectual undertakings in the history of the human sciences - a twelve-volume comparative study of magic, religion, and kingship drawing on sources from ancient Babylon and classical Greece, from the rain-making ceremonies of sub-Saharan Africa and the harvest customs of rural Bavaria, from the totem rituals of Aboriginal Australia and the divine kingships of ancient Mexico, from the peasant folklore of Sweden, Scotland, and Slavic Europe, and from the mystery religions of the ancient Near East.The work is organized around a series of interlocking questions, each arising from the last. Why did the priest of Nemi hold office only by killing his predecessor? Why was the sacred king killed? Why was this power magical rather than religious in the modern sense? And why does this pattern - the divine king, the ritual death, the resurrection, the transfer of sacred power - recur so consistently across cultures with no historical contact with each other?In pursuing these questions Frazer assembled evidence for a pattern of myth and ritual centred on a dying and rising god whose death and resurrection were enacted annually in agricultural ceremonies across the ancient world. Adonis, mourned by the women of Syria and Greece; Attis, the self-castrated consort of Cybele; Osiris, dismembered by Set and reassembled by Isis; Tammuz of Babylon, for whom the women wept at the gate; Dionysus, torn apart and reborn; the corn spirit of European harvest ritual, killed in the last sheaf and reborn in the first shoots of spring - all are shown to be local expressions of the same underlying myth, rooted in the same agricultural anxiety about the death and return of vegetative life.Vols. I and II establish the theoretical foundations: the two branches of sympathetic magic, the public magician as precursor of the king, and the relationship between magic, religion, and science. Vols. III and IV examine the principles of taboo in their application to sacred kings and priests. Vols. V through VIII are devoted to the spirits of the corn and of the wild - the vast body of European and non-European agricultural ritual centred on the death and resurrection of vegetative spirits. Vols. IX and X examine the scapegoat, the ritual transfer of collective guilt onto a human or animal victim who is then expelled or killed. Vols. XI and XII, Balder the Beautiful, bring the argument back to northern Europe with the Norse myth of Balder's death by mistletoe and the suggestion that the golden bough of the title was itself a piece of mistletoe cut from the sacred oak.Throughout all twelve volumes Frazer writes not as a specialist addressing specialists but as a scholar addressing the educated general reader - in prose of unusual clarity and occasional splendour, unhurried in its accumulation of evidence. The opening scene of Vol. I, in which he reconstructs the figure of the priest of Nemi pacing his grove on a wild autumn night, a glitter of steel at his shoulder whenever the pale moon peers down through the matted boughs, remains one of the great set pieces of Victorian prose.This Ex Arche edition presents the twelve volumes of the third edition as facsimiles of the original Macmillan printings, without editorial intervention in the text. Each volume reproduces the original pagination, footnotes, and typography. A new preface introducing the complete series appears in Vol. I only. Why did the priest of Diana at Nemi hold office only by killing his Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…

Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. When James George Frazer published the first edition of The Golden Bough in 1890, he intended to explain a single curiosity from Roman antiquity: the strange rule by which the priesthood of Diana at Nemi, in the Alban hills south of Rome, passed from man to man by murder. What followed over the next thirty years was one of the most ambitious intellectual undertakings in the history of the human sciences - a twelve-volume comparative study of magic, religion, and kingship drawing on sources from ancient Babylon and classical Greece, from the rain-making ceremonies of sub-Saharan Africa and the harvest customs of rural Bavaria, from the totem rituals of Aboriginal Australia and the divine kingships of ancient Mexico, from the peasant folklore of Sweden, Scotland, and Slavic Europe, and from the mystery religions of the ancient Near East.The work is organized around a series of interlocking questions, each arising from the last. Why did the priest of Nemi hold office only by killing his predecessor? Why was the sacred king killed? Why was this power magical rather than religious in the modern sense? And why does this pattern - the divine king, the ritual death, the resurrection, the transfer of sacred power - recur so consistently across cultures with no historical contact with each other?In pursuing these questions Frazer assembled evidence for a pattern of myth and ritual centred on a dying and rising god whose death and resurrection were enacted annually in agricultural ceremonies across the ancient world. Adonis, mourned by the women of Syria and Greece; Attis, the self-castrated consort of Cybele; Osiris, dismembered by Set and reassembled by Isis; Tammuz of Babylon, for whom the women wept at the gate; Dionysus, torn apart and reborn; the corn spirit of European harvest ritual, killed in the last sheaf and reborn in the first shoots of spring - all are shown to be local expressions of the same underlying myth, rooted in the same agricultural anxiety about the death and return of vegetative life.Vols. I and II establish the theoretical foundations: the two branches of sympathetic magic, the public magician as precursor of the king, and the relationship between magic, religion, and science. Vols. III and IV examine the principles of taboo in their application to sacred kings and priests. Vols. V through VIII are devoted to the spirits of the corn and of the wild - the vast body of European and non-European agricultural ritual centred on the death and resurrection of vegetative spirits. Vols. IX and X examine the scapegoat, the ritual transfer of collective guilt onto a human or animal victim who is then expelled or killed. Vols. XI and XII, Balder the Beautiful, bring the argument back to northern Europe with the Norse myth of Balder's death by mistletoe and the suggestion that the golden bough of the title was itself a piece of mistletoe cut from the sacred oak.Throughout all twelve volumes Frazer writes not as a specialist addressing specialists but as a scholar addressing the educated general reader - in prose of unusual clarity and occasional splendour, unhurried in its accumulation of evidence. The opening scene of Vol. I, in which he reconstructs the figure of the priest of Nemi pacing his grove on a wild autumn night, a glitter of steel at his shoulder whenever the pale moon peers down through the matted boughs, remains one of the great set pieces of Victorian prose.This Ex Arche edition presents the twelve volumes of the third edition as facsimiles of the original Macmillan printings, without editorial intervention in the text. Each volume reproduces the original pagination, footnotes, and typography. A new preface introducing the complete series appears in Vol. I only. Why did the priest of Diana at Nemi hold office only by killing his Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. The Masterpiece of Darker EruditionMontague Summers's The History of Witchcraft and Demonology remains the definitive, unvarnished English-speaking account of the witch phenomenon. First published in 1926, this monumental work is not a mere detached chronicle, but an immersive encounter with the history of the black arts-offering one of the most comprehensive and atmospheric studies of witchcraft ever penned.Summers's singular achievement lies in his exhaustive command of primary sources, marrying rigorous archival scholarship with an unyielding exploration of the witch-cult. He tracks the figure of the witch with seamless erudition, moving from medieval papal bulls and classical antiquity to the celebrated trial records of early modern Europe, and finally to the corollary practices of demonology, possession, and spiritism. By treating the logic of the invisible world not as a historical curiosity, but as a potent and persistent reality, Summers reconstructs the fears of the past with terrifying fidelity. For the modern reader, the text offers a rare perspective: the ability to inhabit the mental architecture of a world that genuinely believed in the reality of witchcraft, rendered in a prose style that carries the rhythmic weight of the pulpit and the haunting cadence of a ghost story.This definitive edition has been meticulously typeset and restored for the discerning collector. Featuring period-accurate interior ornamentation and two striking color plates, the volume is designed to be experienced as Summers intended-by fireside, as a gateway into the darkest intellectual and spiritual mysteries of human history.For the occult scholar, the literary historian, and the bibliophile, this remains the essential volume on the history, gravity, and substance of witchcraft. Journey into a world that believed in witches and witchcraft. This definitive, atmospheric, yet documentary account treats the invisible realm not as myth, but as a terrifying reality, exploring the darkest spiritual mysteries of the past. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. What do dragon-riding weather-magicians, the Alexander Romance, the Trojan War, the Buddha legend, heavenly letters, apocryphal gospels, biblical legends, and medieval books of magic have in common?According to Moses Gaster (1856-1939), they all formed part of the same vast process through which stories travelled across Europe, passed from one language to another, and gradually entered popular tradition.First delivered as the Ilchester Lectures at Oxford in 1886, Greeko-Slavonic Literature and Its Relation to the Folk-Lore of Europe During the Middle Ages remains one of the most ambitious early attempts to explain how folklore is created. Challenging the notion that Europe's traditions are merely isolated survivals from a remote pagan past, Gaster argued that written literature played a decisive role in shaping popular belief. Through Byzantine and Slavonic intermediaries, legends, romances, saints' lives, charms, and apocryphal texts crossed frontiers and acquired new life among ordinary people.In these seven lectures, Gaster explores: - Bogomilism and the influence of apocryphal literature;- Old and New Testament legends beyond the biblical canon;- Antichrist traditions, saints' lives, heavenly letters, and popular religious texts;- Exorcisms, charms, and magical practices;- The Alexander Romance, the Trojan cycle, and the epic of Digenis;- The journeys of Barlaam and Josaphat, Akir, Syntipas, and other wisdom traditions from East to West;- The origins of Slavonic literature and the work of Cyril and Methodius.Supplementing the original volume is a complete English translation of Gaster's rare study: The Scholomonar: The Garabancijas Dijak in Romanian Folk Tradition(Archiv fuer slavische Philologie VII [1884], 281-290)In this remarkable essay, Gaster examines one of Europe's most extraordinary supernatural traditions: the Romanian Scholomonari, feared weather-makers who were said to learn their craft in the Devil's hidden school, summon dragons from bottomless lakes with golden bridles, ride through the clouds, and bring hail upon the fields of those who had offended them. Juxtaposing Romanian, Hungarian, and South Slavic traditions, Gaster traces the interplay of Solomonic lore, medieval legends of magical schools, and local folk belief in an attempt to explain the origins of these mysterious figures.Together, these works offer more than a collection of curious medieval tales. They reveal a Europe connected by networks of translation, storytelling, and imagination-where books became legends, legends became folklore, and the boundaries between East and West proved far more porous than later generations often assumed.This edition brings together one of Gaster's most important theoretical works and one of his most vivid folkloric case studies, offering modern readers an opportunity to rediscover a forgotten vision of how Europe's stories came to be. Discover how ancient legends and magical texts transformed into the shared myths of a continent, proving that the boundaries between written literature and popular folklore were once beautifully fluid. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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