The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Part VI: The Scapegoat
by Frazer, J. G
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Port Elizabeth, South Africa
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About This Item
(London: Macmillan, 1914). Third edition. Demy 8vo; original green cloth with gilt "golden bough" device to upper cover, and spine lettered in gilt; pp. xiv + 453, incl. index. Light wear and some stippling to cloth; a little foxing to endpapers and some spotting to edges; several pages unopened. Good to very good condition. "The aspect of the subject with which we are here chiefly concerned is the use of the Dying God as a scapegoat to free his worshippers from the troubles of all sorts with which life on earth is beset. I have sought to trace this curious usage to its origin, to decompose the idea of the Divine Scapegoat into the elements out of which it appears to be compounded. If I am right, the idea resolves itself into a simple confusion between the material and the immaterial, between the real possibility of transferring a physical load to other shoulders and the supposed possibility of transferring our bodily and mental ailments to another who will bear them for us." - Preface .
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- Bookseller
- Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4454
- Title
- The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion. Part VI: The Scapegoat
- Author
- Frazer, J. G
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- (London: Macmillan, 1914)
- Keywords
- Religion. Magic. Mythology. Ritual. God-man. Dying God. Religion
- Bookseller catalogs
- Religion;
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Port Elizabeth
About Christison Rare Books, IOBA SABDA
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- Device
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- Spine
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- Gilt
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- Cloth
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- Unopened
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