The Golden Bough
Excerpt: ...portions were finally cast into a shallow trench beside the tree. Before this was done, anybody who wished might cut off a piece of flesh or a lock of hair from the corpse and carry it to the grave of some relation whose body was being consumed by a ghoul. Attracted by the fresh corpse, the ghoul would leave the mouldering old body in peace. These sacrifices have been offered by men now living. In Greece the great goddess Artemis herself appears to have been annually hanged in effigy in her sacred grove of Condylea among the Arcadian hills, and there accordingly she went by the name of the Hanged One. Indeed a trace of a similar r…
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- ISBN: 978-1-153-70402-1
- EAN: 9781153704021
- Produktnummer: 6533555
- Verlag: Books LLC, Reference Series
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 376 S.
- Masse: H24.6 cm x B18.9 cm x D2.0 cm 898 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 898
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