These groundbreaking essays, assembled in 1885, explore the roots of Greek, Finnish, and other mythologies. The first of Lang’s works applying anthropology to myth, this volume includes “The Method of Folklore, ” “The Myth of Cronus, ” “Cupid, Psyche, and the ‘Sun-Frog, ’” “A Far-Travelled Tale, ” “Apollo and the Mouse, ” “Star Myths, ” “The Art of Savages, ” and others.
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Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a Scotsman, best known as the compiler of the dozen “colored”
Fairy Books. A poet, novelist, literary critic, anthropologist, and historian, Lang was also a founder of psychical research. His books include
The Princess Nobody (1884)
, Ballads and Verses Vain (1884)
, Letters to Dead Authors (1886)
, In the Wrong Paradise (1886)
, The Mark of Cain (1886), and many more.
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