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Golden Leaf: Stories from the Golden Bough
The Golden Bough: a Study in Magic and Religion by the famous British anthropologist James George Fraser is a serious anthropological work on primitive beliefs and witchcraft activities. The original book consists of twelve volumes and collects a wealth of information. It is called the "Encyclopedia of Anthropology". His wife, Lily Fraser, extracted folk tales, myths and legends from all over the world from the twelve volumes of "The Golden Bough", and wrote it in beautiful words into this popul
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Golden Branch
In ancient Roman mythology, the Golden Bough was a branch with golden leaves. Holding it, Aeneas, the "founder of the Roman race", could enter and exit the underworld. Here, the golden bough is just an early metaphor for nature, witchcraft, and taboo. In order to find the systematic context of the formation and development of the human spirit, Fraser consulted a wealth of information, conducted a comparative analysis of early human nature worship, soul concepts, witchcraft and taboos, discovered
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