 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1890 - 430 pages
...vegetation, there are special reasons why he should die by fire. For light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth ; and, on the principle of sympathetic...time at least, vegetation shall have plenty of sun. It may be objected that, if the intention is simply to secure enough sunshine for vegetation, this... | |
 | James George Frazer - Dying and rising gods - 1900 - 522 pages
...vol. ip 192 Sqq. -85, 286, 297. 3 Pp. 245, 300. ' P. 245. « P. 242. light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth ; and, on the principle of sympathetic...time at least, vegetation shall have plenty of sun. It may be objected that, if the intention is simply to secure enough sunshine for vegetation, this... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Folklore - 1908 - 486 pages
...of vegetation should die by fire being that as " light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth, on the principle of sympathetic magic, by subjecting...supply of these necessaries for trees and crops." l Mr. Frazer goes far afield for evidence. He does not see that the fire ceremonies which he collects... | |
 | James George Frazer - Magic - 1913 - 434 pages
...magic, by subjecting the trough personal representative of vegetation to their influence, the fire. you secure a supply of these necessaries for trees...time at least, vegetation shall have plenty of sun. It may be objected that, if the intention is simply to secure enough sunshine for vegetation, this... | |
 | Louise Dudley - Body and soul in literature - 1911 - 716 pages
...vegetation, there are special reasons why he should die by fire. For light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth; and, on the principle of sympathetic...secure a supply of these necessaries for trees and crops."21 The 25 Golden Bough, II, 246. 28 Baumkultus, p. 518 seq. For development of the "Johannis... | |
 | Rodney Gallop - Folk songs, Portuguese - 1936 - 336 pages
...vegetation there are special reasons why he should die by fire. For light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth, and, on the principle of sympathetic...supply of these necessaries for trees and crops." At this point the author of the Golden Bough, who has hitherto been in general agreement with Mannhardt,... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2005 - 733 pages
...vegetation, there are special reasons why he should die by fire. For light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth; and, on the principle of sympathetic magic, by subjecting the personal representative of_ vegetation to their influence, you secure a supply .of these necessaries for trees and crops. In... | |
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But when the god happens to be a deity of vegetation, there are special reasons why he should die by fire. For light and heat are necessary to vegetable growth ; and, on the principle of sympathetic magic, by subjecting the personal representative of... 