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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... theory too far is the common temptation of mythologists , and perhaps Mr. Frazer's cornstalk does rather threaten to overshadow the whole earth and exclude the light of sun and sky . But the reader , whatever his opinions , will find ...
... theory too far is the common temptation of mythologists , and perhaps Mr. Frazer's cornstalk does rather threaten to overshadow the whole earth and exclude the light of sun and sky . But the reader , whatever his opinions , will find ...
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... theory that a sense of the Infinite is the germ of religion , and that Fetichism is secondary , and a corruption . This essay also contains a defence of the evidence on which the anthropological method relies . The remaining essays are ...
... theory that a sense of the Infinite is the germ of religion , and that Fetichism is secondary , and a corruption . This essay also contains a defence of the evidence on which the anthropological method relies . The remaining essays are ...
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... theory is quite unnecessary . The bull - roarer is a very simple invention . Any one might find out that a bit of sharpened wood , tied to a string , makes , when whirred , a roaring noise . Supposing that discovery made , it is soon ...
... theory is quite unnecessary . The bull - roarer is a very simple invention . Any one might find out that a bit of sharpened wood , tied to a string , makes , when whirred , a roaring noise . Supposing that discovery made , it is soon ...
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... We have found a good deal of the sort in Africa and America , where it seems not out of place . 1 Selected Essays , i . 460 . 2 Ibid . , i . 311 . One objection to Mr. Müller's theory is , that it 58 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
... We have found a good deal of the sort in Africa and America , where it seems not out of place . 1 Selected Essays , i . 460 . 2 Ibid . , i . 311 . One objection to Mr. Müller's theory is , that it 58 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
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... theory , therefore , is of no practical service . The theory of Adalbert Kuhn , one of the most famous of Sanskrit scholars , and author of Die Herabkunft des Feuers , is directly opposed to the ideas of Mr. Müller . In Cronus , Mr ...
... theory , therefore , is of no practical service . The theory of Adalbert Kuhn , one of the most famous of Sanskrit scholars , and author of Die Herabkunft des Feuers , is directly opposed to the ideas of Mr. Müller . In Cronus , Mr ...
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