“The custom of burning a beneficent god is too foreign to later modes of thought to escape misinterpretation.”

— James Frazer , book The Golden Bough

Source: The Golden Bough (1890), Chapter 64, The Burning of Human Beings in the Fires.

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Scottish social anthropologist 1854–1941

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