Spirits of the Corn and of the Wild, Vol. 2 of 2

ISBN: 9781333476878 出版年：2018 页码：392 James George Frazer Forgotten Books

Virbius and t/ze Horse, pp. 40-47. — Tradition that Virbius in the character of Hippolytus was killed by horses, custom of excluding horses from the Arician grove, 40; goats excluded from the Acropolis at Athens, but sacrificed on it once a year, 40 sq. A horse annually sacrificed at Rome in October, apparently as an embodiment of the corn-spirit, 42 sq.; analogy of the sacrifice to harvest customs of Northern Europe, 43 sq. Other examples of the exclusion of horses from sanctuaries, 45 sq.; uncertainty as to the reason for excluding horses from the Arician grove.