Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... Examples will be found chiefly in the essays styled ' The Myth of Cronus , ' ' A Far- travelled Tale , ' and ' Cupid and Psyche . ' Why , then , do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals ? Clearly because ...
... Examples will be found chiefly in the essays styled ' The Myth of Cronus , ' ' A Far- travelled Tale , ' and ' Cupid and Psyche . ' Why , then , do distinguished scholars and mythologists reach such different goals ? Clearly because ...
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... example , so closely alike everywhere that , in the British Museum , Mexican vases have , ere now , been mixed up on the same shelf with archaic vessels from Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle were offered to a ...
... example , so closely alike everywhere that , in the British Museum , Mexican vases have , ere now , been mixed up on the same shelf with archaic vessels from Greece . In the same way , if a superstition or a riddle were offered to a ...
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... examples in Turner's ' Samoa , ' and the Scotch enigmas collected by Chambers , will show the identity of peasant and savage humour . 6 A few examples , less generally known , may be given to prove that the beliefs of folklore are not ...
... examples in Turner's ' Samoa , ' and the Scotch enigmas collected by Chambers , will show the identity of peasant and savage humour . 6 A few examples , less generally known , may be given to prove that the beliefs of folklore are not ...
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... Examples like these might be adduced in any number . We might show how , in magic , negroes of Barbadoes make clay effigies of their enemies , and pierce them , just as Greeks did in Plato's time , or the men of Accad in remotest ...
... Examples like these might be adduced in any number . We might show how , in magic , negroes of Barbadoes make clay effigies of their enemies , and pierce them , just as Greeks did in Plato's time , or the men of Accad in remotest ...
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... example of the flint arrow- heads . Everywhere neolithic arrow - heads are pretty much alike . The cause of the resemblance is no more than this , that men , with the same needs , the same materials , and the same rude instruments ...
... example of the flint arrow- heads . Everywhere neolithic arrow - heads are pretty much alike . The cause of the resemblance is no more than this , that men , with the same needs , the same materials , and the same rude instruments ...
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Página 185 - My people ask counsel at their stocks, and their staff declareth unto them: for the spirit of whoredoms hath caused them to err, and they have gone a whoring from under their God.
Página 150 - Therewith the slayer of Argos gave me the plant that he had plucked from the ground, and he showed me the growth thereof. It was black at the root, but the flower was like to milk. Moly the gods call it, but it is hard for mortal men to dig; howbeit with the gods all things are possible.