The study of myth and religion became his areas of expertise. Except for visits to Italy and Greece, Frazer was not widely travelled. His prime sources of data were ancient histories and questionnaires mailed to missionaries

According to historian Timothy Larsen, Frazer used scientific terminology and analogies to describe ritual practices, and conflated magic and science together, such as describing the "magic wand of science". Larsen criticizes Frazer for baldly characterized magical

• Joseph Campbell
• Archetypal literary criticism
• Mircea Eliade
• René Girard
• Edward Burnett Tylor

• Resources related to research : BEROSE - International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology. "Frazer, James George (1854-1941)",

Frazer collected stories from throughout the British Empire and devised four general classifications into which many of them could be grouped:
The Story of the Two Messengers
This type of story is common in Africa. Two messages are carried

• Creation and Evolution in Primitive Cosmogenies, and Other Pieces (1935)
• The Fear of the Dead in Primitive Religion (1933–36)

• Ackerman, Robert (1987). J. G. Frazer: His Life and Work. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521340934.
• Ackerman, Robert (2002).