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Review: Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) was a Scottish anthropologist; and this book, originally published in 1890, as the two volume, "The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religions", his best known work.A short example of his writing style follows:"On Midsummer Eve people in Sweden"make divining-rods of mistletoe or of four different"kinds of wood, one of which must be mistletoe. The"treasure-seeker places the rod on the ground after sundown,"and when it rests directly over treasure, the rod"begins to move as if it were alive...."(pp 367, with reference notes at the bottom of the page.)This particular edition is the only unabridged, and illustrated re-printing of the classic, and while some modern scholars refute some of his conclusions, it is a Must Have for any student of folk-lore and magick.
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