Author: Frazer, Sir James George
Title: The Golden Bough, A Study In Magic And Religion - Abridged Edition.
Description: Macmillan, 1959, reprint Cloth, VG. xiv+756pp, index. dustjacket rather grubby & with a wrinkled section to the rear panel as if the book has at some time been placed on a hot surface, spine sunned, the book itself in nice condition. Hardback with dustjacket. ¶ Abridged edition of Frazer's attempt to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.

Keywords: occult, magic, religion, anthropology, witchcraft,