Andrew Lang gathers essays on early religion, ritual and myth: a warning against overconfident theories, a defence of his view that the earliest religion was relatively high, and a long critique of James Frazer’s The Golden Bough and its slain mock-king, pursued through the Sacaea, Purim, Esther and Calvary. South African religion and cup-and-ring stones close the book.
A witty, combative contemporary reply to Frazer from one of Victorian Britain’s most versatile men of letters. Download the free EPUB.