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PREFACE
The myths of Grcece and Rome have inspired so much of the best thought in English literature that a knowledge of them is often essential to the understanding of what we read.
" When Byron calls Rome," says Thomas Bulfinch, "'the Niobe of nations,' or says of Venice, ' She looks a...
INTRODUCTION
AUTHENTICITY OF BUDDHISM
Purpose of this work : the knowledge of Buddhism enables us to judge some of our contemporary systems. General view of the Buddhist doctrine: the absence of God and belief in annihilation. Atithen-ticity of Buddhism. The works of B. H. Hodgson, Csoma of...
Gerinc felső része megnyomódott, itt a borítók repedezettek. Gerinc és a borítók élei és sarkai kopottasak. Oldalsó lapélén elszíneződésekkel, benyomódással. Fedlapján matricanyommal.
An abundance of literature exists on the subject of the Rhine and its legends, but with few exceptions L the works on it which are accessible to English-speaking peoples are antiquated in spirit and verbiage, and their authors have been content to accept the first version of such legends and...
PREFACEIN refashioning, for the pleasure of readers of the twentieth centiuy, these versions of ancient tales which have given pleasure to story-lovers of all centuries from the eighth onward, I feel that some explanation of my choice is necessary. Men's conceptions of the heroic change with...
THE ROMANS.
61. The design of the Greek temple, in its highest perfection, was, as we have seen, a gradual development of the dwelling-house. This simple, necessary, and logical growth of artistic perfection would be looked for in vain in Roman sacred architecture. The numerous indigenous and...
PrefacepAST year, in giving the young ones a volume of English Fairy Tales, my difficulty was one of collection. This time, in offering them specimens of the rich folk-fancy of the Celts of these islands, my trouble has rather been one of selection. Ireland began to collect her folktales almost as...
PREFACET^HIS volume is an outline of the principles of mythology, chiefly with reference to its more modern developments. Hand in hand with the sister sciences of folklore and comparative religion, it has advanced so rapidly within the last twenty years and altered so greatly from its ancient...
THE GREEKS.
1. In undertaking to describe tlie Ufa of the Greeks in its distinct external appearance, we have first of all to direct our attention to the products of architecture. For of all the creations designed by man's ingenuity and executed by his hand, these produce the grandest and most...
INTRODUCTION
IF there is a phrase in our tongue which connotes the atmosphere of romance it is that of " the Middle Ages." Do but mention the words, and it is as another opening of Pandora's box. Out there streams a retinue of goodly knights, each armed cap-h-picy each bearing in his helmet some...
Thomas the Rhymer
F all the young gallants in Scotland in the I thirteenth century, there was none more 'gracious and debonair than Thomas Learmont, Laird of the Castle of Ercildoune, in Berwickshire.
He loved books, poetry, and music, which were uncommon tastes in those days; and, above all,...
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PREFACE
SINCE the days of Southey the romantic literature of Spain has not received from English writers and critics the amount of study and attention it undoubtedly deserves. In no European country did the seeds of Romance take root so readily or blossom so speedily and luxuriantly as in Spain,...
PREFACEIn this volume, which deals with the myths and religious practices of pre-Columbian America in their relation to habits of life and the growth of civilization, the question is frankly faced whether these manifestations of ancient culture were of independent origin or had been imported from...
FOREWORD
The Russian skazki {skazatz = to tell) are the mass of folktales distributed widely throughout all the Russias. Handed down by constant repetition from generation to generation, a possession common to peasant's hut and Prince's palace from a time when history did not exist, they are...
INTRODUCTION
r HE prime importance of t'he rude fragments of poetry preserved in early Icelandic literature zvill now be dispzited by none, but there has been until recent times an extraordinary indifference to the wealth of religious tradition and mythical lore which they cotUain.
The long...
The green hills of Ireland have always been seeped in myth, legend and folklóré. The tales that comprise this tradition are interwoven with everyday life in Ireland - they are an integrál part of Irish heritage and character. Sámuel Lover and Thomas Grofton Croker have here collected a...
THE CHARM OF THE ENGLISH VILLAGE
THE VILLAGE
NrO country in the world can boast of possessing rural homes and villages which have half the charm and picturesqueness of our English cottages and hamlets. Wander where you will, in Italy or Switzerland, France or Germany, and when you return home...
PREFACE
TO MAN AND HIS SUPERSTITIONS
This volume is a corrected impression of the last seven chapters of The Origin of Man and of His Superstitions, published in 1920; and the first two chapters of that work (much enlarged and rearranged) are now issued separately in a new edition, as The...
PREFACEIn the first volume of this work the reader has been made acquainted with Jewish myths dealing with the origin of the world, angels and demons, paradise and hell, the creation of Adam and Eve, and also with some of the legends related of the Patriarchs Abraham and Isaac. The present volume...
INTRODUCTIONThe history of Witchcraft, a subject as old as the world and as wide as the world,since I understand for the present purpose by Witchcraft, Sorcery, Black Magic, Necromancy, secret Divination, Satanism, and every kind of malign occult art,^at once confronts the writer with a most...
PREFACE
The chapters contained in this book were originally written to form the Introduction to the Catalogue of the Egyptian Collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge^ which I wrote for the Syndics of that institution; they are intended to supply the information necessary for...
PREFACESister NIVEDITA, to whom the present work was first entrusted, needs no introduction to Western or to Indian readers. A most sincere disciple of Swami Vivekänanda, who was himself a follower of the great Rämakrishna, she brought to the study of Indian life and literature a sound knowledge...
PREFACE.Thk Author has to express his great obligations to many gentlemen who have assisted him in the preparation of this volmne, either by affording access to their libraries, or by furnishing or revising translations from the Chinese, c.; and he must especially tender them to J. Haas, Esq., the...
PREFACEThis volume deals with the myths and legends connected with the ancient civilization of Crete, and also with the rise and growth of the civilization itself, while consideration is given to various fascinating and important problems that arise in the course of investigating pre-Hellenic...
PREFACE
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^HE North American Indian has so long been an object of the deepest interest that the neglect of his picturesque and original mythologies and the tales to which they have given rise is difficult of comprehension. In boyhood we are wont to regard him as an instrument specially designed...
The Origins of Popular Superstitions and Customs
INTRODUCTION.
The true origin of superstition is to be found in early man's effort to explain Nature and his own existence; in the desire to propitiate Fate and invite Fortune; in the wish to avoid evils he could not understand ; and in the...
FOREST FOLKLORE, MYTHOLOGY, AND ROMANCE
CHAPTER I t
FORESTS OF ELD |
Archsean Forests ; Primeval and Tropical Forests ; Cosmogonic and ^
Traditional Forests. K
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The earliest vegetation of our globe must have been of the p.
simplest possible type, as during the Archaean Age the earth still...
INTRODUCTION
First published in 1865, Sabine Baring-Gould's classic study of werewolves is a revelation on the subject, being written at a time when werewolves were still taken very seriously in the wilder corners of Europe and, indeed, most other parts of the world. Since then, werewolves have...
FOREWORDBehind the passage of invading armies, behind the turmoil of political struggles, behind the procession of the pilgrims and their deep devotion at the Holy Places, Palestine has had through the ages her own life of the soil and the harvest, with its rhythm of toil and rest, of rain,...
PREFACE
IN recent years a reawakening has taken place in the study of American archaeology and antiquities, owing chiefly to the labours of a band of scholars in the United States and a few enthusiasts in the continent of Europe. For the greater part of the nineteenth century it appeared as if...
CELTIC BRITAIN.
CHAPTER I.
britain in the time of julius CJESAR.
The Celts form, in point of speech, a branch of the great group of nations which has been variously called Aryan, Indo-European, Indo-Germanic, Indo-Celtic, and Japhetic, while the other branches are represented by the Italians,...
PREFACE
This volume deals with the myths and legends connected with the ancient civilization of Crete, and also with the rise and growth of the civilization itself, while consideration is given to various fascinating and important problems that arise in the course of investigating pre-Hellenic...
INTRODUCTION.
1. What Folklore Is.
The word Folk-Lore—^literally, " the learning oj the people "— was coined in 1846 by the late Mr. W. J. Thorns to replace the earlier expression " popular antiquities." It has established itself as the generic term under which the traditional Beliefs,...
PREFACE
IF it were not that I very much dislike long titles, I would call this book An Introduction to the Study of Ancient Druids and Ancient Druidism, for that is what it is really intended to be. Frankly, its main purpose is to provide a complete and well-documented summary of the whole of...
INTRODUCTIONBy Arthur MachenA FEW weeks ago, some serious and responsible personage writing to the paper about delusions past and present, dwelt with especial fervour on ^ the witchcraft prosecutions of the Seventeenth Century. He was horrified at the iniquity of such proceedings, at the wickedness...
INTRODUCTIONIT gives me very great pleasure to introduce this book because, to some extent, I am responsible for it.Last year my " Black Magic" romance. The Devil Rides Out, aroused such widespread interest that Messrs. John Long asked me if I would write a serious book upon the subject for...
PBEFACE.The genius of a great poet has in our own time shed a new lustre on the story of Arthur; but with this exception the romance which delighted Englishmen of the Middle Ages are known to their descendants, generally, little more than in name. Yet these stories must possess an interest for all...
PREFACE.The present account of the " Ancient Egyptians " is chiefly an abridgment of that written by me in 1836; to which I have added other matter, in consequence of my having re-visited Egypt, and later discoveries having been made, since that time.I have here and there introduced some remarks...
PREFACEWHAT is the origin of the superstitious beliefs to which the seafaring man is even to-day still clinging? It may be attributed to three sources, viz.: Firstly, the interpretation and explanation of numerous phenomena actually observed, but the cause of which the early mariner was still...
THE AMAZONSCHAPTER IIntroductoryNever, perhaps, has the alchemy of Greek genius been more potent than in the matter of the Amazonian myth. It has bestowed a charm on the whole amázing story which has been most prolific in its results; but, unfortunately, by tending to confine it to the narrow...
PREFACE.
IT has been a pleasant task to preserve from forgetfulness tales which, while they illumine for us the mental workings of a primitive people, at the same time prove indubitably that the sturdy Maori, who tattooed his body with grotesque patterns, was possessed of a soul, sensitive...
PREFACE
r-piHIS work of Thomas Bulfinch (1796-1867)
I requires no introduction. It has taken secure
X placc as a classic, and has received the homage of imitation from various authors whose books have also sccured appreciation. It is, however, safe to say-that no other book of its kind cxccls...