The Golden Bough免費閱讀_社會、經典、外國_Sir James George Frazer_最新章節

of blood,

have all

their

origin in

savagery,

and they

naturally

appealed

to peoples

in whom

the savage

instincts

were still

strong.

Their true

character

was indeed

often

disguised

under a

decent

veil of

allegorical

or

philosophical

interpretation,

which

probably

sufficed

to impose

upon the

rapt and

enthusiastic

worshippers,

reconciling

even the

more

cultivated

of them to

things

which

otherwise

must have

filled

them with

horror and

disgust.

The

religion

of the