Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the MagyarsLittle, Brown, 1890 - 555 páginas |
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Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars Jeremiah Curtin Vista completa - 1890 |
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars Jeremiah Curtin Vista completa - 1890 |
Myths and Folk-tales of the Russians, Western Slavs, and the Magyars Jeremiah Curtin Vista completa - 1891 |
Términos y frases comunes
answered art thou asked Baba-Yaga began bird Black Island boyars Boyislav bride cap of invisibility castle chamber cried dear didst Doghead dost thou drink eagle earth eldest eyes father fell fish flew forest garden gave give thee glass mountain golden golden bird Gray Wolf Green Daughter Green King hast thou head heard Hedgehog hero horse Ivan the Fool Ivan the merchant's Ivan Tsarevich Jalmir king's kingdom Kiss Miklos Koshchéi Without-Death Lead Friend lived looked maiden Marya Morevna merchant Mirko morning mother mountain Nikita old woman opened palace poor princess road rose silver Simeon sister sleep soon sorceress sprang stood straightway struck Swift Runner sword thou art thou hast thou wilt threw toad told took tree Tsar Tsarevna Tsaritsa turned Useless Wagoner wife wish world-beautiful Yanek Yarmil Yelena the Beautiful Yelena the Wise
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Página xvii - Again he declares: It should be remembered that whatever be the names of the myth-tale heroes at present, the original heroes were not human. They were not men and women, though in most cases the present heroes or heroines bear the names of men and women, or children; they perform deeds which no man could perform, which only one of the forces of Nature could perform, if it had 3 Ibid., pp.
Página ix - ... to permit that. Though myth-tales are, perhaps, more interesting ... in their present form, they will have not their full interest for science till it is shown who most of the actors are under their disguises. This is the nearest task of mythology. There are masterpieces in literature filled with myths, inspired with myth conceptions of many kinds, simply colored by the life of the time and the nations among which these masterpieces were written and moulded to shape by artists, made strong from...
Página xi - ... America which did not possess, in beautiful forms, the elements of an extensive literature with a religion and philosophy which would have thrown light on many beginnings of Aryan and Semitic thought, a knowledge of which in so many cases is now lost to us, but which we hope to recover in time ... if civilized men instead of slaying "savages," directly and indirectly, will treat them as human beings, and not add to the labor of those workers who in the near future will surely endeavor, singly...
Página x - In reference to the collection of myths and tales and beliefs he presents the following wise conclusions : There is everywhere a sort of selvage of short tales and anecdotes, small information about ghosts and snakes, among all these races, which are easily obtained, and most Europeans seem to think that when they have collected some of these trivial things they have all that the given people possess. But they are greatly mistaken. All these people have something better. There was not a single stock...
Página vii - Semitic race; to discover and set forth the meaning of that which in mental work, historic strivings, and spiritual ideals ties the historic nations to one another. At the present time this work is done, if not completely, at least measurably well, and a new work awaits us, to demonstrate that there is a higher and a mightier bond, the relationship of created things with one another, and their inseverable connection with That which some men reverence as God, but which other men call the Unknowable,...
Página x - ... the inherent difficulty of the task has been increased by Europeans, who have exterminated great numbers among the best primitive races, partially civilized or rather degraded others, and rendered the remainder distrustful and not easily approached on the subject of their myths and ethnic beliefs. Its weightiest service will be rendered in the domain of religion, for without mythology there can be no thorough understanding of any religion on earth, either in its inception or its growth.1 The...
Página ix - Idylls of the King," have been written without Keltic mythology? Many of these literary masterpieces have not merely myths in their composition as a sentence has words, but the earlier ones are enlarged or modified myth-tales of those periods, while the later ones are largely modeled on and inspired by the...
Página ix - But we have no tale in which it is clear who all the characters are; the modifying influences were too great and long-continued to permit that. Though myth-tales are, perhaps, more interesting ... in their present form, they will have not their full interest for science till it is shown who most of the actors are under their disguises. This is the nearest task of mythology. There are masterpieces in literature filled with myths, inspired with myth conceptions of many kinds, simply colored...
Página i - MYTHS AND FOLK-TALES OF THE RUSSIANS, WESTERN SLAVS, AND MAGYARS.
Página 343 - Then she took him by the hand, and led him down the stairs. In front of the castle a carriage with four white horses was waiting; when they entered, the horses rushed off with such speed that soon they passed the white castle. Yarmil was going to ask who the white lady was, when the princess said : " That is my mother, who has aided in my liberation.