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... ancestors . The student of folklore is thus led to examine the usages , myths , and ideas of savages , which are still retained , in rude enough shape , by the European peasantry . Lastly , he observes that a few similar customs and ...
... ancestors . The student of folklore is thus led to examine the usages , myths , and ideas of savages , which are still retained , in rude enough shape , by the European peasantry . Lastly , he observes that a few similar customs and ...
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... ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to compare the seem- ingly meaningless customs or manners of civilised races with the similar customs and manners which exist among the uncivilised and still retain their meaning . It is ...
... ancestors of the Greeks . Our method , then , is to compare the seem- ingly meaningless customs or manners of civilised races with the similar customs and manners which exist among the uncivilised and still retain their meaning . It is ...
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... ancestors of Greeks , Maoris , Hottentots , and Eskimo were ever in contact with each other in historical times . Now the peculiarity of the method of folklore is that it will venture to compare ( with due caution and due examination of ...
... ancestors of Greeks , Maoris , Hottentots , and Eskimo were ever in contact with each other in historical times . Now the peculiarity of the method of folklore is that it will venture to compare ( with due caution and due examination of ...
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... ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of the Greeks , however remote their home , while they were still in the savage condition ? The best way to investigate this point is to collect all known savage and civilised stellar ...
... ancestors of the Australians , and to the ancestors of the Greeks , however remote their home , while they were still in the savage condition ? The best way to investigate this point is to collect all known savage and civilised stellar ...
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... ancestors of a civilised race were in the state of savagery . By this method it is not necessary that some sort of genealogy should be established ' between the Aus- tralian and the Greek narrators of a similar myth , nor between the ...
... ancestors of a civilised race were in the state of savagery . By this method it is not necessary that some sort of genealogy should be established ' between the Aus- tralian and the Greek narrators of a similar myth , nor between the ...
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