Writing in 1921, the Scottish folklorist Lewis Spence surveys the young science of myth: its rival schools of interpretation, the evolution of gods from spirits and totems, the classes of deity and of myth, and the stories peoples tell about the making of the world and of man. Examples range from Greece and Rome to the Americas.
A clear, wide-ranging map of comparative mythology as it stood after Frazer, useful to students and curious readers alike. Download the free EPUB.