The Hand A Survey of Facts, Legands, & Beliefs.....Signed 1st ed. 1905, The Irving Company 1st Edition Mythology, Religion However interesting they may be, the legendary stories which we no longer accept literally, and which we know to be impossible, are entirely distinct from what we designate as history. This view of them is not at all satisfactory to the careful student. These tales as they have come down to us often have been rewritten and readapted to the beliefs and conditions of the various peoples of whose life and literature they have formed a part. We may reject them as chronicles of actual events, but accept them in assisting us to determine the intellectual characteristics, social conditions, and moral standards at a time when a less skeptical, or differently educated, people confided in them. Postulating that all legends, fables, and myths contain some germs of truth, and are invaluable sources of information to us, the author has made free use of them in these pages. Indeed, from them alone, sometimes, can be gained correct ideas of the true meaning and significance of rites and customs which still, in modified form, survive as a part of our daily lives. From the private library of Frederick Houk Law, 1871 1957. A teacher of English at Stuyvesant High School, NY, and a writer of short stories for pulp fiction magazines such as Munsey's. He travelled widely; bicycled Europe; in Africa from Cape to Cairo, and to interior of British Guiana.

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