ANIMISM, MAGIC, AND THE DIVINE KING - Roheim, 1930 HC/DJ - MAGIC ANCIENT GODS

  ANIMISM, MAGIC, AND THE DIVINE KING — by Geza Roheim — 1st Edition / 1st Printing, 1930 HC/DJ — MAGIC DEATH HEALING ANCIENT GODS FOLKLORE RELIGIONS

 Publisher: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., London (1930)

In very well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light shelfwear and chipping to the top spine. The pages are crisp and clean and free of interior writing, save for a spot or two of foxing along on the borders of the first five pages and foxing on the outer fore-edge. The scarce dust jacket is in well preserved condition save for a chip on the lower spine. Contents include:

I. Animism and the Other World
Sympathetic Magic
 Moment of Death and the Soul
Osiris and other Mortals
 Passage of the dead

II.  Psychology of Magic
 Black Art
Rain Maker
Love Magic 

III.The Medicine Man and the Art of Healing
Sucking Cure,
 Magic Wand and Medicine Pipe
Mana
 Holy Ghost,
Disease and the Art of Healing
 Addenda

IV. The Divine King
Introduction
 Tammuz and the King
 Adonis and other Lords
 Attis and Midas
 Pharaoh and other African kings
Cecrops and other Serpents
 May King
Apollo and Cadmus

V. The Scapegoat
 King as Scapegoat,
Cock and Wren
 Mars and the Salii
Goat of Azazel
 Thargelia
Scapegoats and Initiations
Carthartic Ritual.