 Now, with regard to all these strange usages, what is the method of folklore ? The method is, when an apparently irrational and anomalous custom is found in any country, to look for a country where a similar practice is found, and where the practice is...  Greek and Roman [mythology] - Page lixby William Sherwood Fox - 1916 - 354 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Andrew Lang - Religion - 1884 - 340 pages
...tribes. Now, with regard to all these strange usages, what is the method of folklore ? The method is, when an apparently irrational and anomalous custom...manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails. That Greeks should dance about in their mysteries with harmless serpents in their hands looks quite... | |
 | George Laurence Gomme - Social Science - 1892 - 252 pages
...this, the aid of comparative custom and belief must be invoked. As Mr. Lang has so well expressed it, ' When an apparently irrational and anomalous custom is found in any country the method is to look for a country where a similar practice is no longer irrational or anomalous,... | |
 | Benjamin Taylor - Folklore - 1900 - 232 pages
...anomalous custom in any country, we must look for a country where a similar custom prevails, and where it is no longer irrational and anomalous, but in harmony...manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails. When we read of Greeks dancing about in their 'mysteries' with live serpents, it seems unintelligible,... | |
 | Andrew Lang - Folklore - 1908 - 144 pages
...Golden Bough is a very large collection of similar harvest rites. 2 Odyssey, xi., 32. , The method is, when an apparently irrational and anomalous custom...similar practice is found, and where the practice is not irrational and anomalous, but in harmony with the manners and ideas of the people among whom it... | |
 | William Sherwood Fox - Mythology, Classical - 1916 - 678 pages
...hypothesis that peoples at the same levels of primitive development invent the same kind of stories. It leads the investigator, "when an apparently irrational...manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails." " The results of this theory are often invalidated by the tacit assumption that its basic hypothesis... | |
 | Alan Dundes - Literary Criticism - 1980 - 328 pages
...the question What is the method of folklore? shows very well his conception of folk. The method is, when an apparently irrational and anomalous custom...any country, to look for a country where a similar practiceis found, and where the practice is no longer irrational and anomalous, but in harmony with... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - Folklore - 1999 - 416 pages
...found in any eountry, to look for a eountry where a similar praetiee is found, and where the praetiee is no longer irrational and anomalous, but in harmony...manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails. That Greeks should danee about in their mysteries with harmless serpents in their hands looks quite... | |
 | Richard Mercer Dorson - History - 1999 - 558 pages
...LANG] Now, with regard to all these strange usages, what is the method of folklore? The method is, when an apparently irrational and anomalous custom...found in any country, to look for a country where . . . the practice is ... in harmony with the manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails... | |
 | Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, John Arnott MacCulloch - Mythology - 1916 - 674 pages
...hypothesis that peoples at the same levels of primitive development invent the same kind of stories. It leads the investigator, "when an apparently irrational...manners and ideas of the people among whom it prevails." n The results of this theory are often invalidated by the tacit assumption that its basic hypothesis... | |
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