According to Frazer, the early Greek kings, who were expected to produce rain for the benefit of the crops, were in the habit of imitating thunder and lightning in the character of Zeus.

* Lydgate is a character in a 2003 mystery novel The Bastard's Tale, by Margaret Frazer, which takes place in Bury St. Edmunds in 1447.

Frazer recalled that each person remembered Cope differently, and that " Few men succeeded so well in concealing from anyone ... all the sides of his multiform character.

* Chloe Frazer, a character from the video game Uncharted franchise

* Private James Frazer, a character in the British television sitcom Dad's Army

James Robert " Jamie " McCrimmon is a fictional character played by Frazer Hines in the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who.

One of his most popular roles was as a stereotypical Australian working-class character called " Ocker ", and Frazer is now credited with popularising the term.

He began in stage revue and wrote many skits and gags for the satirical comedy series The Mavis Bramston Show, before joining the cast as a regular member in 1966, in various roles including the character Ocker and Frazer is credited with neologising the Australian slang term " ocker ".

* " Time Traveller ", a song by Frazer Hines, in character as Jamie from Doctor Who

Although Tylor undertook a field trip to Mexico, both he and Frazer derived most of the material for their comparative studies through extensive reading, not fieldwork, mainly the Classics ( literature and history of Greece and Rome ), the work of the early European folklorists, and reports from missionaries, travelers, and contemporaneous ethnologists.

Murray derived this model of a horned god cult from James Frazer and Jules Michelet.

Here, again, science makes myth obsolete: as Frazer puts it, man progresses " from magic through religion to science ".

* The Worship of the Sun Among the Aryan Peoples of Antiquity by Sir James G. Frazer ( from archive. org )

It was linked to festivals held around the same time in other Celtic cultures, and was popularised as the " Celtic New Year " from the late 19th century, following Sir John Rhys and Sir James Frazer.

Frazer records traditions from England, France, among the South Slavs, in Central Germany ( Meiningen ) and western Switzerland ( the Bernese Jura ).

James George Frazer posited a universal progress from magical thinking to science.

The engine developed from this project found its way into many successful motor cars manufactured by other companies, such as Cooper, Frazer Nash, and AC, and in and powered the Bristol 450 sports prototype to class victories in the 24 Hours of Le Mans race.

* Chloe Frazer, from the video game Uncharted franchise

Frazer removed his analysis of the Crucifixion to a speculative appendix for the third edition, and it was entirely missing from the single-volume abridged edition.

These actors include Mark Hamill ( The Joker, Wolverine and the Watcher from Darksiders ), Michael Dorn ( various characters from World of Warcraft and Gatatog Uvenk from Mass Effect 2 ) and Claudia Black ( Chloe Frazer from the second and third entries in the Uncharted series ).

Lilies of the Field, a 1963 film adapted from the 1962 novel with the same name by William Edmund Barrett, starring Sidney Poitier, Lilia Skala, Stanley Adams, and Dan Frazer, was adapted by James Poe from the novel.

Derived from immediately pre-WW2 BMW products ( thanks to a connection to BMW through Frazer Nash ), the chassis was based on the BMW 326, the engine on the 328, and the body on the 327.

This well-regarded engine also powered a number of sports and racing cars, including all post-war Frazer Nashes ( apart from a few prototypes ), some ACs, some Lotus and Cooper racing cars, and several others.

James Frazer ( author of The Golden Bough ) and others ( such as Jane Ellen Harrison, Robert Graves and Marija Gimbutas ) advance the idea that goddess worship in ancient Europe and the Aegean was descended from Pre-Indo-European neolithic matriarchies.

" Pat Righelato concludes, " Camille Paglia's syncretic theoretical enterprise invoking Frazer, Freud, Nietzsche, and Bloom, from anthropology to influence theory and psychobiography, is an immense tour de force.

Frazer thought that conceptualist explanations of conception resulted in the beginning of totem clans derived from a particular natural creature.

However, the Plymouth brand name came from Plymouth Binder Twine, chosen by Joe Frazer for its popularity among farmers.

Originally formed as the Kaiser-Frazer Corporation in 1945, the firm was reorganized in 1953 under the name Kaiser Motors Corporation after withdrawal of Joseph W. Frazer from the venture.

Frazer especially suffered as a luxury make from its plodding six-cylinder engine.

However, she was elected as a Democrat to the House in a 1996 rematch with Frazer and has served from January 3, 1997, to the present.

She made a series of appearances in the British soap opera Emmerdale ( then known by its original title Emmerdale Farm ) coincidentally opposite Frazer Hines, one of the major stars of that show.

Her name is derived from that of a character in several poems by Yeats.

Ruickbie, Hutton, and others further argue that much of what has been published of Gardnerian Wicca, as Gardner's practice came to be known by, was written by Blake, Yeats, Valiente and Crowley and contains borrowings from other identifiable sources.

" Yeats ' childhood and young adulthood were shadowed by the power shift away from the minority Protestant Ascendancy.

Balscadden House in Howth, Ireland, where Yeats lived from 1880-83

During séances held from 1912, a spirit calling itself " Leo Africanus " apparently claimed it was Yeats ' Daemon or anti-self, inspiring some of the speculations in Per Amica Silentia Lunae.

" By January 1909, Gonne was sending Yeats letters praising the advantage given to artists who abstain from sex.

A more indirect influence was the scholarship on Japanese Noh plays that Pound had obtained from Ernest Fenollosa's widow, which provided Yeats with a model for the aristocratic drama he intended to write.

The emergence of a nationalist revolutionary movement from the ranks of the mostly Roman Catholic lower-middle and working class made Yeats reassess some of his attitudes.

However, due to the escalating tension of the political scene Yeats distanced himself from the core political activism in the midst of the Easter Rising, even holding back his poetry inspired by the events until 1920.

In England, Plotinus was the cardinal influence on the 17th-century school of the Cambridge Platonists, and on numerous writers from Samuel Taylor Coleridge to W. B. Yeats and Kathleen Raine.

In the northwest, 11 km from Manorhamilton can be found Glencar Waterfall, which was an inspiration to Yeats and is mentioned in his poem The Stolen Child.

) released at the tail end of a year anyone could agree was the embittered honeymoon's end for the Love Generation, the year when, to borrow from a famous Yeats poem, the center decidedly could not hold ... for whatever reason, The Beatles is still one of the few albums by the Fab Four that resists reflexive canonisation, which, along with society's continued fragmentation, keeps the album fresh and surprising.

* Janis Londraville, editor, ( 2003 ) Prodigal Father Revisited: Artists and writers in the World of John Butler Yeats, Locust Hill Press, includes papers from first John Butler Yeats Seminar, Chestertown 2001.

* James White ( 1972 ), John Butler Yeats and The Irish Renaissance with pictures from the collection of Michael Butler Yeats and from The National Gallery of Ireland The Dolmen Press Dublin.

There are at least five plays based on Deirdre's story: George William Russell's Deirdre ( 1902 ), William Butler Yeats ' Deirdre ( 1907 ), J. M. Synge's Deirdre of the Sorrows ( 1910 ), John Coulter's Deirdre of the Sorrows: An Ancient and Noble Tale Retold by John Coulter for Music by Healey Willian ( 1944 ), and Vincent Woods ' A Cry from Heaven ( 2005 ).

According to William Butler Yeats, the great wealth of these fairies comes from the " treasure-crocks, buried of old in war-time ", which they have uncovered and appropriated.

He proved highly receptive to the soft, melancholy moods of the Irish Literary Revival and found in Yeats a powerful muse, from which he derived a lifetime of inspiration.

Yeats, although not a modernist, was to learn a lot from the new poetic movements that sprang up around him and adapted his writing to the new circumstances.

Yeats, who hated MacBride for capturing his muse Maud Gonne, and who later heard negative reports of MacBride's treatment of Gonne in their marriage, from Gonne herself, gave him the following ambivalent eulogy in his poem " Easter, 1916 ":

Founded by Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and W. B. Yeats in 1899 — with assistance from George Moore — it presented plays in the Ancient Concert Rooms and the Gaiety Theatre, which brought critical approval but limited public interest.

It also becomes clear from DuPont's choice of words that he, too, does not take Prozium and has been reading the poems of Yeats.

A selection from his stories ( 1889 ), in the " Camelot Series ", has an introduction by William Butler Yeats.