The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
James George Frazer · English
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The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
James George Frazer · English
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I. The King of the Wood 1. Diana and Virbius WHO does not know Turner’s picture of the Golden Bough? The scene, suffused with the golden glow of imagination in which the divine mind of Turner steeped and transfigured even the fairest natural landscape, is a dream-like vision of the little woodland lake of Nemi— “Diana’s Mirror,” as it was called by the ancients. No one who has seen that calm water, lapped in a green hollow of the Alban hills, can ever forget it. The two characteri
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