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The Golden Bough
How this book fits
- Traditions
- Greek and Roman mysteries
- Role in the tradition
- Secondary source A study of the tradition from outside it: history, scholarship, anthropology or reference.
- Public attention
- Landmark Wikipedia has an article about it in 33 languages.
Read it
- the one-volume abridgement ↗ sacred-texts.com checked against the Internet Archive's copy of May 13, 2026, because the site refuses scripts · archived copy
- Read at gutenberg.org ↗ gutenberg.org checked September 11, 2026
From Wikipedia
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 published in two volumes in 1890; in three volumes in 1900; and in twelve volumes in the third edition, published 1906–1915. It has also been published in several different one-volume abridgments. The work was for a wide literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Thomas Bulfinch's The Age of Fable, or Stories of Gods and Heroes (1855). The influence of The Golden Bough on contemporary European literature and thought has been substantial.
From the Wikipedia article The Golden Bough, revision 1371053449, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Wikidata Q651283: “1890 non-fiction work by James George Frazer”.