Golden Bough

noun

, Classical Mythology.

a branch of mistletoe, sacred to Proserpina, that served Aeneas as a pass to the underworld.

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No man should regard the subject of religion as decided for him until he has read The Golden Bough.

Outside Rome, showing the same ideas at work among neighbouring peoples, was the 'golden bough' in the grove of Diana at Aricia.

The value of The Golden Bough lies largely in the evidence therein adduced of what may be termed universal ritual.

The misletoe is supposed to be the golden bough which Æneas made use of, to introduce himself to the Elysian regions.

Mr. Frazer has devoted forty-two pages of his Golden Bough to the record of examples of this belief about names, in various forms.

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