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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... reasons for advancing in a novel direction . If this were a question of scholarship merely , it would be simply foolhardy to differ from men like Max Müller , Adalbert Kuhn , Bréal , and many others . But a revolutionary mythologist is ...
... reasons for advancing in a novel direction . If this were a question of scholarship merely , it would be simply foolhardy to differ from men like Max Müller , Adalbert Kuhn , Bréal , and many others . But a revolutionary mythologist is ...
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... reasons , but chiefly because of the 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 ...
... reasons , but chiefly because of the 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 ...
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... reasons , and others too many to be ad- duced here , I have ventured to differ from the current opinion that myths must be interpreted chiefly by philological analysis of names . The system adopted here is explained in the first essay ...
... reasons , and others too many to be ad- duced here , I have ventured to differ from the current opinion that myths must be interpreted chiefly by philological analysis of names . The system adopted here is explained in the first essay ...
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... reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of customs might be ) in many different places . ' Apollo and the Mouse ' suggests hypothetically , as a possible explanation of the tie ...
... reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of customs might be ) in many different places . ' Apollo and the Mouse ' suggests hypothetically , as a possible explanation of the tie ...
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... reason for it . He thinks the sneeze expels an evil spirit . Proverbs , again , and riddles are as universally scattered , and the Wolufs puzzle over the same devinettes as the Scotch schoolboy or the Breton peasant . Thus , for ...
... reason for it . He thinks the sneeze expels an evil spirit . Proverbs , again , and riddles are as universally scattered , and the Wolufs puzzle over the same devinettes as the Scotch schoolboy or the Breton peasant . Thus , for ...
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