Custom and MythHarper & Brothers, 1885 - 312 páginas |
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Página 79
... animals , incessantly occur . ' Un- natural ' as these notions seem to us , no ideas are more familiar to savages , and none recur more fre- quently in Indo - Aryan , Scandinavian , and Greek mythology . An extant tribe in North - West ...
... animals , incessantly occur . ' Un- natural ' as these notions seem to us , no ideas are more familiar to savages , and none recur more fre- quently in Indo - Aryan , Scandinavian , and Greek mythology . An extant tribe in North - West ...
Página 80
... animal life with the beavers . Or was the Indian name for beaver ( temaksé ) once a name for the sun ? 2 A curious variant of this widely distributed Märchen of the animal bride is found in the mythical 1 Kitchi Gami , p . 105 . 2 The ...
... animal life with the beavers . Or was the Indian name for beaver ( temaksé ) once a name for the sun ? 2 A curious variant of this widely distributed Märchen of the animal bride is found in the mythical 1 Kitchi Gami , p . 105 . 2 The ...
Página 82
... animal forms , so the magic touch of iron breaks love between the Welshman and his fairy mistress , the representative of the stone age . In many tales of fairy - brides , they are won by a kind of force . The lover in the familiar ...
... animal forms , so the magic touch of iron breaks love between the Welshman and his fairy mistress , the representative of the stone age . In many tales of fairy - brides , they are won by a kind of force . The lover in the familiar ...
Página 84
... animal . Instantly , like Urvasi and her companions in the Yajur Veda , the bride and her maidens disappear and are turned into birds ! They are afterwards surprised in human shape , and the bride is restored to her lover . 3 Selected ...
... animal . Instantly , like Urvasi and her companions in the Yajur Veda , the bride and her maidens disappear and are turned into birds ! They are afterwards surprised in human shape , and the bride is restored to her lover . 3 Selected ...
Página 85
... animals , as in India and North America . We explain the separation of the lovers as the result of breaking a taboo , or law of etiquette , binding among men and women , as well as between men and fairies . The taboos are , to see the ...
... animals , as in India and North America . We explain the separation of the lovers as the result of breaking a taboo , or law of etiquette , binding among men and women , as well as between men and fairies . The taboos are , to see the ...
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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.