Myths and DreamsChatto and Windus, 1885 - 251 páginas |
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... George and the Dragon . All the Aryan nations have among their legends , often exalted into epic themes , the story of a battle between a hero and a monster . In each case 48 MYTHS AND DREAMS . (e ) Light and Darkness.
... George and the Dragon . All the Aryan nations have among their legends , often exalted into epic themes , the story of a battle between a hero and a monster . In each case 48 MYTHS AND DREAMS . (e ) Light and Darkness.
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... George of Cappadocia delivered the city of Silene from a dragon dwelling in a lake hard by . Nothing that the people could give him satisfied his insatiate maw , and in their despair they cast lots who among their dearest ones should be ...
... George of Cappadocia delivered the city of Silene from a dragon dwelling in a lake hard by . Nothing that the people could give him satisfied his insatiate maw , and in their despair they cast lots who among their dearest ones should be ...
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... George Cox's Mythology of the Aryan Nations will suffice . In the spontaneous utterances of thoughts awakened by outward phenomena , we have the source of myths which must be regarded as primary . But it is obvious that such myths would ...
... George Cox's Mythology of the Aryan Nations will suffice . In the spontaneous utterances of thoughts awakened by outward phenomena , we have the source of myths which must be regarded as primary . But it is obvious that such myths would ...
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... George Cox's words , " not long hence will probably be re- garded as excessive . " They are nature - myths ; but , and in this is the secret of their enduring life , they are much more than that . The impetus that has shaped them as we ...
... George Cox's words , " not long hence will probably be re- garded as excessive . " They are nature - myths ; but , and in this is the secret of their enduring life , they are much more than that . The impetus that has shaped them as we ...
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... George Dasent , about an unusually daring and savage beast being , " that can be no Christian bear , " we may not be surprised that lower races still ascribe power of interchange to man and brute . The werewolf superstition is extant ...
... George Dasent , about an unusually daring and savage beast being , " that can be no Christian bear , " we may not be surprised that lower races still ascribe power of interchange to man and brute . The werewolf superstition is extant ...
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A. B. GROSART Abipones Algonquin ancestors ancient animals Aryan Aryan Nations beast bird body breath CHARLES civilised cloth extra cloth limp Coloured conception Cronus Crown 8vo custom dark dead death deity demons Demy 8vo disease doctrine dreams earth Edited Eskimo Essays existence eyes familiar spirit Fcap folk-lore folk-tales Frontispiece ghost gilt gods Greek Grimm's law heart heaven Hebrew HENRY VAN LAUN human ideas Illus illustrated boards Indian killed Koshchei language legend lest living Love man's Max Müller meaning mediæval mind moon myth mythology nature night notions Novels numerous Illustrations origin passed phenomena PICCADILLY NOVELS play Poems Portrait Post 8vo primitive prince Punchkin races relics religion round Sanskrit savage shadow Sheol sleep solar sorcerer soul spirit stone story survival tells theory things thought Three Vols tion totem tree tribes Vritra whilst wind words
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