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Author : Sir Walter William Strickland,Karel Jaromír Erben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Fairy tales
ISBN : UOM:39015011334102
Author : W. W. Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499641960
Author : W. Strickland
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1530262720
An important work on folk-lore has just been issued by Mr. Forder. It is entitled, translated and compared by W. W. Strickland. The word "primitive" may be objected to as not strictly accurate. But the stories, translated from the Czech and Slovenien, are certainly of very archaic character, and, although they have some analogues in Southern and Western Europe, probably represent earlier phases of some better known folk tales. Besides giving the stories themselves as they are still told by the folk, Mr. Strickland comments upon, compares, and explains them. He gives reasons for believing that they originated in the arctic regions, and that they represent in the main the mythology of the seasons, especially the triumph of spring over winter. Mr. Clodd has recently pointed out that folk-lorists are apt, out of deference to the Christian taboo, to avoid the real issue of their studies. This is not the case with Mr. Strickland. He errs, if at all, on the other side. He does not scruple to find in his old folk tales the origin of "the Bethlehem legend." He says: "Just as the hero of the primitive myth leaves home to wander through darkness and bring back the light, so Jesus, the putative child of the Jewish Tvashtar, runs away from home, and, disputing with the doctors of divinity, proves himself to be more enlightened than any of them; and, not long after this, after a forty days' fast, which is perhaps a faint reminiscence of the forty-two days' Arctic winter night, occurs the struggle for the light in its usual triple form, but vulgarised into a trial of moral strength between a devil and a saint, perhaps having been modified by ancient Buddhist legends. Such is the staff religions and religious thought are formed of." It should be mentioned that Mr. Strickland gives reason to believe that some items of his stories are prior to Virgil, and pre-Christian. Mr. Strickland has some notable remarks-on the mental position of our savage ancestors. He says: "At present, enlightened by science, we refer all the vital phenomena of the surface of our globe to the heat of the sun. But the instinct of savage people is just the other way. There is with them a complete inversion of cause and effect. It is not the sun that creates mankind, but mankind that creates the sun. It is not the sun that brings back the spring, but the gathering vital forces of nature that conjure back the sun - And it this habit of mind, still prevalent among religious folk whose superstitions represent the dying cosmical blunders of primitive barbarism, is still powerful enough to cause hundreds of thousands of Christians to believe that by prayer they can conjure the climatic effects dependent upon the movements of cyclones and anti-cyclones, or thereby change the course of epidemics or their own lives and conduct, it is not wonderful if savages within the Arctic circle, with few or no means of accurate observation and scanty stores of accumulated knowledge, mistook cause for effect, and imagined it was the cold which killed the sun, and not the sun which killed the cold.".... -Freethinker, Vol.16, Pt. 1 [1896]
Author : W. W. Strickland
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1330430549
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Author : Karel Jaromír Erben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11819336
Author : Karel Jaromír Erben,Sir Walter William Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : HARVARD:32044024325326
Author : W.W. Strickland
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781275463271
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Free thought
ISBN : HARVARD:HXCS1Q
Author : Sir Walter William Strickland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1910
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018477559
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : IOWA:31858045162330
Author : Edwin Sharpe Grew,Baden Fletcher Smyth Baden-Powell,Arthur Cowper Ranyard,Wilfred Mark Webb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015086623280
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 940 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Arts
ISBN : UCAL:C3469033
Author : Cambridge University Library
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Catalogs
ISBN : UOM:39015067261126
Author : Joseph Jacobs,Alfred Trübner Nutt,Arthur Robinson Wright,William Crooke
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Electronic journals
ISBN : STANFORD:36105130811685
Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Folklore
ISBN : UOM:39015012214899