The legend of Perseus, Volume 2 (of 3)

Two classes of life-tokens; the one, originally connected with the hero; the other, arbitrary--Examples given in previous chapters--Examples from _märchen_ outside the Perseus c...

Folktale incidents presenting the divisibility of a person, continued sympathy of severed portions of a person with the bulk, and the endowment of the severed portions with cons...

Different kinds of love-potions--Hair and other substances taken from the body--Clothing--Footprints--Dangers {vii} of carelessness over severed parts of the body--Cure for wart...

Ceremonies at wells and trees in the British Islands--On the Continent of Europe--Nails driven into trees and images--Analogous rites elsewhere--Usual explanations discussed--Ri...

The clan one body--The common meal--Eating the dead in antiquity--Among modern savages--Survivals in modern Europe--Funeral feasts--The Sin-eater--Similar customs in other count...

Analogy of marriage with admission into the clan--Custom of _Sindra-dán_--Blood-rites--_Confarreatio_--Ritual food shared by all guests--Meaning of the rite--Marriage constitute...

The Couvade--Its true meaning--Not found among the lowest savages--Sponsorship--Adoption--Collective responsibility of the clan--The Blood-feud--Medical treatment of the kin for...

The life-tokens we have met with in previous chapters may be divided into two classes, namely, such as have some original connection with the hero, and such as are merely arbitr...

There are certain common folktale incidents we must first of all notice, though it is unnecessary to do so at any great length. One of them is found in a group of tales which I...

In the last chapter we dealt with that branch of witchcraft which has been called Sympathetic Magic. There is another branch that will repay a little attention, namely, the comp...

In the light of the results thus obtained by an examination of certain of the methods of witchcraft and folk-medicine, we next approach a group of rites known in one form or oth...

Thus far, in pursuing our investigations into the significance of the Life-token, we have arrived at the conclusion that the reason of the mysterious sympathy between the hero a...

If I have made clear the corporate character of the clan, or _gens_, as conceived by savage thought, the reader will have understood how completely the clan is regarded as an un...

Marriage, or sexual union of a more or less permanent character, from the intimate connection which it creates, has obvious analogies to the admission of a new member into a cla...

In the last three chapters we have discussed some savage customs founded on the belief that the members of a kin are parts of an entire body and connected with one another by an...

[4.1] Day, 71. Here what is probably the more archaic form of the incident, namely, the gift of the life-token to at least one of the kin, is preserved. The hero of one of Afana...

[11.1] Leskien, 548, citing Nowosielsky. The dish appears elsewhere in Russian tales for the same purpose in connection with a knife and a handkerchief. One would hardly have gi...

belief, Pigorini-Beri, 58. In Switzerland at the present day, if a peasant have a son born and a foal or lamb dropped at the same time, the same name is given to both. Ploss, i....

[56.2] _Suprà_, vol. i., p. 213; Jülg, 53; Ovid, _Metam._, viii. 848. So in the island of Florida, when a man sells a pig he takes back its _tarunga_, or soul, in a dracæna-leaf...

[119.3] Wilken, _Haaropfer_, 80. For the Wendish maiden an alternative is “eine unpaarige Zahl Haare vom Gemächte ganz klein zu schneiden, dass sie nicht mehr sichtbar sind, und...

[179.4] Prof. Rhys, in iii. _Folklore_, 75. Mr. Moore is quoted as giving a slightly different version of the ritual. I think his version probably describes a more recent and de...

[239.1] On the blood-covenant, the three chief authorities are Robertson Smith, _Kinship_; and _Rel. Sem._; Trumbull; and Strack. Prof. Robertson Smith and Dr. Trumbull, approac...

[280.2] _Ibid._, i. 216; iv. 26. Father Favre identifies the Padaioi with the Battas of Sumatra (Favre, _Wild Tribes_, 5), and Major Rennell the Issedones with the Oigurs or Elu...

[335.2] Hunter, _Rur. Bengal_, 188. No one reading the Indian evidence can be left in any uncertainty as to the meaning of the red lead. See Crooke, 197, 294; _N. Ind. N. and Q....

[401.1] On the Couvade generally the reader may consult Tylor, _Early Hist._, 291; H. Ling Roth, in xxii. _Journ. Anthr. Inst._, 204; Ploss, i. _Kind_, 143; Von Dargun, 18; and...