Quotes: Primitive Beliefs (4)

Primitive belief 127 "…illicit love tends to mar that fertility and to blight the crops" Frazer, The New Golden Bough.

Primitive belief 127 "…believed that breaches of sexual morality disturb the course of nature, particularly by blighting the fruits of the earth." Frazer, The New Golden Bough.

Primitive belief 184 "In the Biblical story of Cain and Abel, blood shed in homicide renders the soil barren." Frazer, The New Golden Bough.

Primitive belief 184 "In the (North Canaanite) Poem of Aqhat…the murder of that youth is revealed to his father and sister by the sudden infertility of the soil." Frazer, The New Golden Bough.

Primitive belief 196 "Now the absence of the soul in sleep has its dangers, for if from any cause the soul should be permanently detained away from the body, the person thus deprived of the vital principle must die." Frazer, The New Golden Bough.