Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... race to race all over the globe , as there seems no reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of customs might be ) in many different places . ' Apollo and the Mouse ' suggests ...
... race to race all over the globe , as there seems no reason why it should have been invented separately ( as a myth explanatory of natural phenomena or of customs might be ) in many different places . ' Apollo and the Mouse ' suggests ...
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... races , the axes and arrow - heads . There is a form of study , Folklore , which collects and compares the similar but immaterial relics of old races , the surviving superstitions and stories , the ideas which are in our time but not of ...
... races , the axes and arrow - heads . There is a form of study , Folklore , which collects and compares the similar but immaterial relics of old races , the surviving superstitions and stories , the ideas which are in our time but not of ...
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... races . In this extended sense the term ' folklore ' will fre- quently be used in the following essays . The idea of the writer is that mythology cannot fruitfully be studied apart from folklore , while some knowledge of anthropology is ...
... races . In this extended sense the term ' folklore ' will fre- quently be used in the following essays . The idea of the writer is that mythology cannot fruitfully be studied apart from folklore , while some knowledge of anthropology is ...
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... race from which it was brought . Suppose you tell a folklorist that , in a certain country , when anyone sneezes , people say ' Good luck to you , ' the student cannot say à priori what country you refer to , what race you have in your ...
... race from which it was brought . Suppose you tell a folklorist that , in a certain country , when anyone sneezes , people say ' Good luck to you , ' the student cannot say à priori what country you refer to , what race you have in your ...
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... be given to prove that the beliefs of folklore are not peculiar to any one race or stock of men . The first case is remarkable : it occurs in Mexico and Ceylon In nor are we aware that it is found elsewhere 14 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
... be given to prove that the beliefs of folklore are not peculiar to any one race or stock of men . The first case is remarkable : it occurs in Mexico and Ceylon In nor are we aware that it is found elsewhere 14 CUSTOM AND MYTH .
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Términos y frases comunes
adoration Africa ancestors ancient animal Apollo Aryan Australians Aymar ballad bear beasts believe Bheki bride Brosses bull-roarer Bushmen called civilised Cloth Cronus Cupid and Psyche custom daughter dawn derived descent divining rod early Earth Egyptians epic Eskimo exogamy explain fairy family name fetichism folklore gens gods Greece Greek Half Calf Heaven hero History Homer Hottentots human ideas Illustrations Ilmarinen Infinite Jason JOHN S. C. ABBOTT Kalevala Khoi Khoi Khoi kinship legend M'Lennan magical maidens Maori marriage Max Müller meaning mice modern moly moon mother mouse mysteries mythology natural night origin Peruvian philological Pohjola polyandry primitive probably Pururavas race recognised Red Indians religion religious rites root sacred Samoa Sanskrit savage says serpent Sheep Sir Henry Maine stars stone story superstition survival tale theory things tion totemism tribes Tsui Goab turndun Uncut Edges Urvasi Veda vols Wäinämöinen wand woman women worship Zealand Zeus
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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.