Mistletoe

All Heal; Bird Lime; Devil's Fuge; European Mistletoe; Golden Bough; Herb de la Croix; Lignum Crucis; Mistal; Viscum; Viscum album; Vogelmistel

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion is a wide-ranging comparative study of mythology and religion by Scottish anthropologist Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941), first published in 1890. It was aimed at a broad literate audience raised on tales as told in such publications as Bulfinch's Age of Fable. It offered a modernist approach, discussing religion dispassionately as a cultural phenomenon, rather than from a theological perspective. While the worth of its contribution to anth ...