The life-giving myth and other essays / A.M. Hocart ; [edited with an introduction by Lord Raglan].

Myths are the expression of a form of knowledge essential to life. Including mainly previously unpublished work by A.M. Hocart the book examines such issues as: Why a queen should not have been married before; why a guest is sacred; why people are believed to have been turned into stone; how money o...

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Main Author: Hocart, A. M. (Arthur Maurice), 1884-1939
Other Authors: Raglan, Baron (FitzRoy Richard Somerset), 1885-1964
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 2004.
Series:Routledge library editions. Anthropology and ethnography ; 092.
Witchcraft, folklore, and mythology ; volume 3.
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