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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... fairy arrows , we know that even in ancient Etruria they were looked on as magical , for we sometimes see their ... fairies , but the forgotten peoples of this island , who used the arrows with the tips of flint . Thunder is only so far ...
... fairy arrows , we know that even in ancient Etruria they were looked on as magical , for we sometimes see their ... fairies , but the forgotten peoples of this island , who used the arrows with the tips of flint . Thunder is only so far ...
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... fairy bride , is known in most lands , ' even among barbarians . ' According to the story the mystic prohibition is always broken the hidden face is beheld ; light is brought into the darkness ; the forbidden name is uttered ; the bride ...
... fairy bride , is known in most lands , ' even among barbarians . ' According to the story the mystic prohibition is always broken the hidden face is beheld ; light is brought into the darkness ; the forbidden name is uttered ; the bride ...
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... fairy or sylph , the mistress ( and a folle maîtresse , too ) of Pururavas , a mortal man.1 In the poem Urvasi remarks that when she dwelt among men she ' ate once a day a small piece of butter , and therewith well satisfied went away ...
... fairy or sylph , the mistress ( and a folle maîtresse , too ) of Pururavas , a mortal man.1 In the poem Urvasi remarks that when she dwelt among men she ' ate once a day a small piece of butter , and therewith well satisfied went away ...
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... fairy , fell in love with Pururavas , and when she met him she said : Embrace me three times a day , but never against my will , and let me never see you without your royal garments , for this is the manner of women . ' The Gandharvas ...
... fairy , fell in love with Pururavas , and when she met him she said : Embrace me three times a day , but never against my will , and let me never see you without your royal garments , for this is the manner of women . ' The Gandharvas ...
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... fairy friends were playing in the shape of birds . Urvasi saw Puru- ravas , revealed herself to him , and , according to the Brahmana , part of the strange Vedic dialogue was now spoken . Urvasi promised to meet him on the last night of ...
... fairy friends were playing in the shape of birds . Urvasi saw Puru- ravas , revealed herself to him , and , according to the Brahmana , part of the strange Vedic dialogue was now spoken . Urvasi promised to meet him on the last night of ...
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