Custom and MythLongmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - 312 páginas 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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... Greece after the Homeric age . It has been suggested , for example , by Mr. Walter Leaf , that Homer's people , the Achæans , were free from all such ideas as Totemism , worship of the dead , ritual of purification for homicide , the ...
... Greece after the Homeric age . It has been suggested , for example , by Mr. Walter Leaf , that Homer's people , the Achæans , were free from all such ideas as Totemism , worship of the dead , ritual of purification for homicide , the ...
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... Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle were offered to a student of folklore , he would have much difficulty in guessing its provenance , and naming the race from which it was brought . Suppose you tell a folklorist ...
... Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle were offered to a student of folklore , he would have much difficulty in guessing its provenance , and naming the race from which it was brought . Suppose you tell a folklorist ...
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... Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes . Now ...
... Greece , and show how the serpent - dances , the habit of smearing the body with clay , and other odd rites of the mysteries , were common to Hellenic religion , and to the religion of African , Australian , and American tribes . Now ...
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... Greece , nor can we show that the ancestors of Greeks , Maoris , Hottentots , and Eskimo were ever in contact with each other in historical times . Now the peculiarity of the method of folklore is that it will venture to compare ( with ...
... Greece , nor can we show that the ancestors of Greeks , Maoris , Hottentots , and Eskimo were ever in contact with each other in historical times . Now the peculiarity of the method of folklore is that it will venture to compare ( with ...
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... Greece , of India , of the North . They all show their common savage origin , when the poet neglects Freya's command and tells of what the gods did in the morning of Time . ' As to borrowing , we have already shown that in prehistoric ...
... Greece , of India , of the North . They all show their common savage origin , when the poet neglects Freya's command and tells of what the gods did in the morning of Time . ' As to borrowing , we have already shown that in prehistoric ...
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