The primary aim of this book is to explain the remarkable rule which regulated the succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia.

The work was aimed at a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes.

This is a new release of the original 1927 edition.

The book documents and details the similarities among magical and religious beliefs around the globe.

The Golden Bough was originally published in two volumes in 1890, but Frazer became so enamored of his topic that over the next few decades he expanded the work sixfold, then in 1922 cut it all down to a single thick edition suitable for ...

His most famous work, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (1890), documents and details similar magical and religious beliefs across the globe.

Classic work first published 1890 on ancient and primitive myth, magic, religion, ritual, and taboo.