Myths and Myth-makers: Old Tales and Superstitions Interpreted by Comparative MythologyHoughton, Mifflin, 1865 - 251 ページ |
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Achilleus ancestors ancient Aphrodite appears Arabian arrow Aryan Aryan Nations Athene barbaric Baring-Gould beast belief bird body Brahman Cacus called cannibal century character Christian clouds conception cows dark Dawn dead deity demon Devil divining-rod divinity Dyaus earth evidence explained fetichistic fiend Fiske folk-lore G. C. Lewis ghosts giant Gladstone Greek hand heaven Herakles Hercules Hermes Hindu Homeric poems human Iliad illustration Indra Ioskeha killed king language legend light Luxman Mara Max Müller Michabo mind modern moon myth mythical mythology nature never night night-demons Norse notion Odin Odysseus Oidipous once origin Panis phenomena philology philosophy primeval Punchkin race regard resemblance Rig-Veda Sanskrit Sarama savage schamir Sculloge Sigurd similar slays solar hero soul story strange superstition supposed swan-maidens tale Tannhäuser Tell theory thought tion told Troll Tylor Veda Vedic Vritra werewolf wife wolf words Zeus Zulu
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27 ページ - JACK and Jill went up the hill, To fetch a pail of water; Jack fell down and broke his crown And Jill came tumbling after.
50 ページ - Sultan's army from tlK iol«r ray*. too, had many other representatives besides ships and cows. In a future paper it will be shown that they were sometimes regarded as angels or houris ; at present it more nearly concerns us to know that they appear, throughout all Aryan mythology, under the form of birds. It used to be a matter of hopeless wonder to me that Aladdin's innocent request for a roc's egg to hang in the dome of his palace should have been regarded as a crime worthy of punishment by the...
232 ページ - If an animal or a plant die, its soul immediately goes to Bolotoo; if a stone or any other substance is broken, immortality is equally its reward; nay, artificial bodies have equal good luck with men, and hogs, and yams. If an axe or a chisel is worn out or broken up, away flies its soul for the service of the gods.
27 ページ - ... exiled thither for many centuries, and who is so far off that he is beyond the reach of Death. He has once visited this earth, if the nursery rhyme is to be credited, when it asserts that — " The Man in the Moon Came down too soon, And asked his way to Norwich ;" but whether he ever reached that city, the same authority does not state.
92 ページ - ... and cut off the leg of one less nimble than the rest : on his taking it up, to his amazement he found it belonged to a female of his own species, and next morning discovered the owner, an old hag, with only the companion leg to this.
110 ページ - The poets of the Veda indulged freely in theogonic speculations, without being frightened by any contradictions. They knew of Indra as the greatest of gods, they knew of Agni as the god of gods, they knew of Varuna as the ruler of all, but they were by no means startled at the idea that their Indra had a mother, or that their Agni was born like a babe from the friction of two fire-sticks, or that Varu;;a and his brother Mitra were nursed in the lap of Aditi.
77 ページ - mutilated in the English version, but known more perfectly by old wives in Germany, who can tell that the lovely little maid in her shining red satin cloak was swallowed with her grandmother by the wolf, till they both came out safe and sound when the hunter cut open the sleeping beast.
228 ページ - In New Zealand it is ominous to see the figure of an absent person, for if it be shadowy and the face not visible, his death may erelong be expected, but if the face be seen he is dead already. A party of Maoris (one of whom told the story) were seated round a fire in the open air, when there appeared, seen only by two of them, the figure of a relative, left ill at home ; they exclaimed, the figure vanished, and on the return of the party it appeared that the sick man had died about the time of the...
156 ページ - The victor returned to his grandmother, and established his lodge in the far east, on the borders of the great ocean whence the sun comes. In time he became the father of mankind, and the special guardian of the Iroquois.
4 ページ - ... strike off the apple at the first flight of the arrow, he should pay the penalty of his empty boasting by the loss of his head. The king's command forced the soldier to perform more than he had promised, and what he had said, reported by the tongues of slanderers, bound him to accomplish what he had not said.