Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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... similar arguments , any name whatever might be shown to be appropriate to a solar hero . The scholarly method has now been applied for many years , and what are the results ? The ideas attained by the method have been so popularised ...
... similar arguments , any name whatever might be shown to be appropriate to a solar hero . The scholarly method has now been applied for many years , and what are the results ? The ideas attained by the method have been so popularised ...
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... similar but immaterial relics of old races , the surviving superstitions and stories , the ideas which are in our time but not of it . Pro- perly speaking , folklore is only concerned with the legends , customs , beliefs , of the Folk ...
... similar but immaterial relics of old races , the surviving superstitions and stories , the ideas which are in our time but not of it . Pro- perly speaking , folklore is only concerned with the legends , customs , beliefs , of the Folk ...
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... similar weapons in actual use among savages , so the salutation to the sneezer becomes intelligible when we learn that the savage has a good reason for it . He thinks the sneeze expels an evil spirit . Proverbs , again , and riddles are ...
... similar weapons in actual use among savages , so the salutation to the sneezer becomes intelligible when we learn that the savage has a good reason for it . He thinks the sneeze expels an evil spirit . Proverbs , again , and riddles are ...
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... similar device in a modern novel , where the presence of a ghost is sus- pected , as proof of the similar workings of the Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent ...
... similar device in a modern novel , where the presence of a ghost is sus- pected , as proof of the similar workings of the Australian mind and of the mind of Mrs. Riddell . We shall later turn to ancient Greece , and show how the serpent ...
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Andrew Lang. ditions of mind produce similar practices , apart from identity of race , or borrowing of ideas and manners . Let us return to the example of the flint arrow- heads . Everywhere neolithic arrow - heads are pretty much alike ...
Andrew Lang. ditions of mind produce similar practices , apart from identity of race , or borrowing of ideas and manners . Let us return to the example of the flint arrow- heads . Everywhere neolithic arrow - heads are pretty much alike ...
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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.