Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... never real people , the names are as much common names of real people in the savage state , as Smith and Brown are names of civilised men . For all these reasons , but chiefly because of the fact that stories are usually anonymous at ...
... never real people , the names are as much common names of real people in the savage state , as Smith and Brown are names of civilised men . For all these reasons , but chiefly because of the fact that stories are usually anonymous at ...
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... never heard , and where the characters in the story have other names or are anonymous . For these reasons , and others too many to be ad- duced here , I have ventured to differ from the current opinion that myths must be interpreted ...
... never heard , and where the characters in the story have other names or are anonymous . For these reasons , and others too many to be ad- duced here , I have ventured to differ from the current opinion that myths must be interpreted ...
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... never ? ' - Answer , ' The Wind . ' ' Who are the comrades that always fight , and never hurt each other ? ' - ' The Teeth . ' In France , as we read in the ' Recueil de Calembours , ' the people ask , What runs faster than a horse ...
... never ? ' - Answer , ' The Wind . ' ' Who are the comrades that always fight , and never hurt each other ? ' - ' The Teeth . ' In France , as we read in the ' Recueil de Calembours , ' the people ask , What runs faster than a horse ...
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... never ( as far as history shows us ) been in actual contact . Our method throughout will be to place the usage , or myth , which is unintelligible when found among a civilised race , beside the similar myth which is intelligible enough ...
... never ( as far as history shows us ) been in actual contact . Our method throughout will be to place the usage , or myth , which is unintelligible when found among a civilised race , beside the similar myth which is intelligible enough ...
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... never consciously borrow myths from each other ? The answer is , that race has a great deal to do with the development of myth , if it be race which confers on a people its national genius , and its capacity of becoming civilised . If ...
... never consciously borrow myths from each other ? The answer is , that race has a great deal to do with the development of myth , if it be race which confers on a people its national genius , and its capacity of becoming civilised . If ...
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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.