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Modern Mythology

by Andrew Lang

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  1. 1Dedication — Introduction
  2. 2Regent Mythology
  3. 3Autobiographical
  4. 4The Ugly Scars
  5. 5My Criticism of Mr. Max Müller
  6. 6Success of Anthropological Method
  7. 7Mr. Max Müller’s Reply
  8. 8The Story of Daphne
  9. 9Tuna and Daphne
  10. 10Criticism of Tuna and Daphne
  11. 11The Explanation
  12. 12Disease of Language and Folk-etymology
  13. 13Mannhardt on Daphne
  14. 14The Question of Allies
  15. 15Italian Critics
  16. 16A Dutch Defender
  17. 17Reply
  18. 18Professor Tiele on Our Merits
  19. 19Destruction and Construction
  20. 20Allies or Not?
  21. 21Our Errors
  22. 22Uses of Philology
  23. 23Personal Controversy
  24. 24The Story of Cronos
  25. 25Professor Tiele on Sunset Myths
  26. 26Our Lack of Scientific Exactness
  27. 27My Lack of Explanation of Cronos
  28. 28My Crime
  29. 29My Reply to Professor Tiele
  30. 30Conclusion as to Professor Tiele
  31. 31Mannhardt
  32. 32Moral Character Impeached
  33. 33Mannhardt
  34. 34Mannhardt’s Letters
  35. 35How Mannhardt Differs From Mr. Max Müller
  36. 36Mannhardt’s Method
  37. 37Another Claim on Mannhardt
  38. 38What Mannhardt Said
  39. 39My Relations to Mannhardt
  40. 40Mannhardt’s Return to His Old Colours
  41. 41Mannhardt’s Attitude to Philology
  42. 42Irritating Conduct of Mannhardt
  43. 43Mannhardt on Demeter Erinnys
  44. 44Mannhardt’s ‘Mean Argument’
  45. 45Why Mannhardt Is Thought to Have Been Converted
  46. 46Mannhardt’s Final Confession
  47. 47Mannhardt on Solar Myths
  48. 48Mannhardt on Märchen
  49. 49‘The Two Brothers’
  50. 50The Golden Fleece
  51. 51Mannhardt’s Approach to Mr. Max Müller
  52. 52Philology and Demeter Erinnys
  53. 53My Theory of the Horse Demeter
  54. 54Totemism
  55. 55Totemism Defined
  56. 56What a Totem Is
  57. 57The Evidence for Sign-boards
  58. 58More About Totems
  59. 59Heraldry and Totems
  60. 60Gods and Totems
  61. 61An Objection
  62. 62A Weak Brother
  63. 63Mr. Frazer and Myself
  64. 64Greek Totemism
  65. 65The Greek Mouse-totem?
  66. 66Philological Theory
  67. 67Mr. Frazer on Animals in Greek Religion
  68. 68Aryan Totems (?)
  69. 69Mr. Frazer and I
  70. 70Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism
  71. 71Mr. Frazer’s Theory
  72. 72The Validity of Anthropological Evidence
  73. 73‘Positions One Never Held’
  74. 74Positions Which I Never Held
  75. 75Anthropological Evidence
  76. 76Mr. Max Müller’s Method of Controversy
  77. 77Mr. Max Müller on Our Evidence
  78. 78The Test of Recurrences
  79. 79Bias of Theory
  80. 80Concerning Missionaries
  81. 81The Philological Method in Anthropology
  82. 82Names of Savage Gods
  83. 83A Hottentot God
  84. 84Cause of Our Scepticism
  85. 85Phonetic Bickerings
  86. 86Phonetic Rules
  87. 87Basis of a Science
  88. 88Philology in Action — Indra
  89. 89Obscuring the Veda
  90. 90Criticism of Fetishism
  91. 91Dr. Oldenberg
  92. 92Comparisons, When Odious
  93. 93A Question of Logic
  94. 94‘Scholars’
  95. 95Anthropology and the Mysteries
  96. 96Abstract Ideas of Savages
  97. 97Perception of the Infinite
  98. 98Fetishism and Anthropological Method
  99. 99Origin of Fetishes
  100. 100‘Telekinetic’ Origin of Fetishism
  101. 101Civilised ‘Fetishism’
  102. 102More Mischiefs of Comparison
  103. 103Still More Nemesis
  104. 104For Us or Against Us?
  105. 105The Fallacy of ‘Admits’
  106. 106Conclusion as to Our Method
  107. 107The Riddle Theory
  108. 108The Riddle Theory
  109. 109Mordvinian Mythology
  110. 110Lettish Mythology
  111. 111The Chances of Fancy
  112. 112Artemis
  113. 113Artemis
  114. 114Otfried Müller
  115. 115Beast Dances
  116. 116The View of Classical Scholars
  117. 117Mr. Max Müller’s Explanation
  118. 118Wider Application of the Theory
  119. 119The Bear Dance
  120. 120The Fire-Walk
  121. 121Mount Soracte
  122. 122Hirpi Sorani
  123. 123Mannhardt’s Deficiency
  124. 124The Fire-walk
  125. 125Fijian Fire-walk
  126. 126Kling Fire-walk
  127. 127Tupua’s Incantation Used in Walking Over the Uum-Ti — Translation
  128. 128Corroborative Evidence
  129. 129The Fire-walk in Trinidad
  130. 130Bulgarian Fire-walk
  131. 131Indian Fire-walk
  132. 132Psychical Parallels
  133. 133Conclusion as to Fire-walk
  134. 134Psychical Research
  135. 135The Origin of Death
  136. 136The Origin of Death
  137. 137Death, Regarded as Unnatural
  138. 138Why Men Are Mortal
  139. 139Savage Death-Myths
  140. 140The Greek Myth
  141. 141The Serpent
  142. 142Dualistic Myths
  143. 143Economic Myth
  144. 144Maui and Yama
  145. 145Maui Myths
  146. 146Yama
  147. 147Inferences
  148. 148The Stealing of Fire
  149. 149‘Fire Totems’
  150. 150Prometheus
  151. 151Savage Myths of Fire-stealing
  152. 152Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing
  153. 153Conclusion
  154. 154Appendix A: The Fire-walk in Spain
  155. 155Appendix B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology

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