# Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore

Author: Taylor, Benjamin

Genre: Category: Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/29921

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Storyology%3A+Essays+in+Folk-Lore%2C+Sea-Lore%2C+and+Plant-Lore+Taylor&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

According to Webster, it is 'a fabulous or imaginary statement or narrative conveying an important truth, generally of a moral or religious nature: an allegory, religious or historical, of spontaneous growth and popular origin, generally involving some supernatural or superhuman claim or power; a tale of some extraordinary personage or country that has been gradually formed by, or has grown out of, the admiration and veneration of successive generations.' Here is a choice of three definitions, but not one of them is by itself satisfying. Let us rather say that a myth is a tradition in narrative form, more or less current in more or less differing garb among different races, to which relig...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/11/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/storyology-essays-in-folk-lore-sea-lore-and-plant-lore-29921/chapters/8/index.md)