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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... wand for his wife's correction . The bridal party sets out for home , a new feast is spread , and the bridegroom congratu- lated on the courage he must have shown in stealing a girl from a hostile tribe . While all is merry , the ...
... wand for his wife's correction . The bridal party sets out for home , a new feast is spread , and the bridegroom congratu- lated on the courage he must have shown in stealing a girl from a hostile tribe . While all is merry , the ...
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... wand . But we do not actually know that the ancient wand of the enchantress Circe , in Homer , or the wand of Hermes , was used , like the divining rod , to indicate the whereabouts of hidden wealth or water . In the Homeric hymn to ...
... wand . But we do not actually know that the ancient wand of the enchantress Circe , in Homer , or the wand of Hermes , was used , like the divining rod , to indicate the whereabouts of hidden wealth or water . In the Homeric hymn to ...
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... wand , indeed , but a wooden object which turned in the direction , not of water or minerals , but of human guilt . A better instance is given by the Rev. H. Rowley , in his account of the Mauganja . A thief had stolen some corn . The ...
... wand , indeed , but a wooden object which turned in the direction , not of water or minerals , but of human guilt . A better instance is given by the Rev. H. Rowley , in his account of the Mauganja . A thief had stolen some corn . The ...
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... wand turned rapidly in his hands ( Lettres , p . 107 ) . But the most singular parallel to the performance of the African wizard must be quoted from a curious pamphlet already referred to , a trans- 1 1Quoted in Jacob's Rod : London ...
... wand turned rapidly in his hands ( Lettres , p . 107 ) . But the most singular parallel to the performance of the African wizard must be quoted from a curious pamphlet already referred to , a trans- 1 1Quoted in Jacob's Rod : London ...
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... wand as much on a par with the turning- tables , which , in 1854 , attracted a good deal of atten- tion . He studied the topic historically , and his book , with a few accessible French tracts and letters of the seventeenth century ...
... wand as much on a par with the turning- tables , which , in 1854 , attracted a good deal of atten- tion . He studied the topic historically , and his book , with a few accessible French tracts and letters of the seventeenth century ...
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