The Golden Bough
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The Golden Bough: A Study in Comparative Religion is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first
Cover of the first volume of the 1976 Macmillan Press edition
J. M. W. Turner's 1834 painting of the Golden Bough incident in the Aeneid
The Judgement of Paris—an Etruscan bronze mirror of the 4th or 3rd century BC that relates the myth as interpreted by Frazer, showing the three goddesses giving their apple or pomegranate to the new king, who must kill the old king
James George Frazer
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Sir James George Frazer was a Scottish social anthropologist and folklorist influential in the early stages of the modern studies of mythology and comparative religion.
The Golden Bough
…in Magic and Religion in its second edition) is a wide-ranging, comparative study of mythology and religion, written by the Scottish anthropologist James George Frazer. The Golden Bough was first published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; and in twelve volumes in the third edition, published 1906–1915…
Frazer in 1933
A snake shedding its skin
Dead banana plants