The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 01 of 12)

PREFACE

When I originally conceived the idea of the work, of which the first

part is now laid before the public in a third and enlarged edition, my

intention merely was to explain the strange rule of the priesthood or sacred kingship of Nemi and with it the legend of the Golden Bough, immortalised by Virgil, which the voice of antiquity associated with the priesthoo...