'The External Soul'
The Golden Bough by James G. Frazer: Chapter 4, Sections 3-5 & Notes, 'Why Gold?'
Frazer commits art during his entire investigation, bringing beauty and horror tinged with plaintive sorrow in words well-woven in the most hallowed poetics of the subjects of his investigation. A myriad of tales, both Aryan and Other are related from folklore concerning the keeping of a soul, described as “the life” or “death” of a monster, king, witch…