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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... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
... woman of a man's own family . Slaves and captured brides would bring their native legends among alien peoples . But there is another possible way of explaining the resemblance ( granting that it is proved ) of the Greek and Australian ...
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... women into the families - all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
... women into the families - all these things favoured the migration of myth . But the process lies behind history : we can only guess at it , we can seldom trace a popular legend on its travels . In the case of the cultivated ancient ...
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... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
... women to keep out of the way . Just as Pentheus was killed ( with the approval of Theocritus ) because he profaned the rites of the women - worshippers of Dionysus , so , among the Australian blacks , men must , at their peril , keep ...
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... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun ...
... women may never look upon it . The Chepara tribe , who call it bribbun , have a custom that , if seen by a woman , or shown by a man to a woman , the punishment to both is death . ' Among the Kurnai , the sacred mystery of the turndun ...
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... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
... women attach great sacredness to the very name of the turndun . They are much less instructed in their own theology than the men of the tribe . One woman believed she had heard Pundjel , the chief supernatural being , descend in a ...
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