...Perhaps the sticks had been previously used to beat the Death, andso had acquired the fertilising power ascribed to the effigy... 
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The interment of therepresentative of the Carnival under a dung-heap is natural, if heis supposed to possess a quickening and fertilising influence likethat ascribed to the effigy of Death...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...In other words, the flesh and ashes of the victim were believed tobe endowed with a magical or physical power of fertilising theland...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Here the pig is the corn-spirit,whose fertilising power is sometimes supposed to lie especially inhis tail...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...The animal was torn in fragments, as the Khond victim was cut inpieces, in order that the worshippers might each secure a portionof the life-giving and fertilising influence of the god...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...But in popular belief the quickening and fertilising influenceof the bonfires is not limited to the vegetable world; it extendsalso to animals...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...It is the latter alone that combinesin conception with the invading nucleus of the fertilising spermatozoon (thepronucleus masculinus)...
Ernst Haeckel 「The Evolution of Man」
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