Custom and MythLongmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - 312 pages 1885. While best known for his translations of classical literature and as a collector of folk and fairy tales, Lang also wrote poetry, biographies, histories, novels, literary criticisms and even children's books. Lang was one of the first to apply anthropological findings to the study of myth and folklore. His versatility was also shown in his valuable works on folklore and on primitive religion. The earliest of these works was Custom and Myth. Contents: The Method of Folklore; the Bull-Roarer; The Myth of Cronus; Cupid, Psyche, and the Sun-Frog; A Far-Travelled Tale; Apollo and the Mouse; Star Myths; Moly and Mandragora; The Kalevala; The Divining Rod; Hottentot Mythology; Fetichism and the Infinite; The Early History of the Family; and The Art of Savages. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. |
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... the method of com- parative mythology examines the proper names which occur in myths . The notion is that these names con- tain a key to the meaning of the story , and that , in B fact , of the story the names are the germs.
... the method of com- parative mythology examines the proper names which occur in myths . The notion is that these names con- tain a key to the meaning of the story , and that , in B fact , of the story the names are the germs.
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Andrew Lang. fact , of the story the names are the germs and the oldest surviving part . The objections to this method are so numerous that it is difficult to state them briefly . The attempt , however , must be made . To desert the path ...
Andrew Lang. fact , of the story the names are the germs and the oldest surviving part . The objections to this method are so numerous that it is difficult to state them briefly . The attempt , however , must be made . To desert the path ...
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... fact that stories are usually anonymous at first , that names are added later , and that stories naturally crystallise round any famous name , heroic , divine , or human , the process of analysis of names is most pre- 1 Prim . Cult ...
... fact that stories are usually anonymous at first , that names are added later , and that stories naturally crystallise round any famous name , heroic , divine , or human , the process of analysis of names is most pre- 1 Prim . Cult ...
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Andrew Lang. them with my dreams , but soon sufficiently awakening to the fact that they were no mere phantoms of my imagina- tion , but a reality . During our conversation the noises . became more distinct and loud ; blow after blow ...
Andrew Lang. them with my dreams , but soon sufficiently awakening to the fact that they were no mere phantoms of my imagina- tion , but a reality . During our conversation the noises . became more distinct and loud ; blow after blow ...
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... fact which puzzles us by its presence in civilisation is a relic surviving from the time when the ancestors of a civilised race were in the state of savagery . By this method it is not necessary that ' some sort of genealogy should be ...
... fact which puzzles us by its presence in civilisation is a relic surviving from the time when the ancestors of a civilised race were in the state of savagery . By this method it is not necessary that ' some sort of genealogy should be ...
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