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British polymath Edward Clodd was a banker who also established himself as a prominent thinker in the fields of anthropology and folklore. In Myths and Dreams, Clodd takes a look at the mythological beliefs of many cultures and societies, ranging from prehistoric times to the nineteenth century, providing keen insight into the ways that natural and environmental factors, rather than supernatural ones, came to shape these belief systems.
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Table of contents
- MYTHS AND DREAMS
- Contents
- Preface
- PART I - MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH
- I - Its Primitive Meaning
- II - Confusion of Early Thought Between the Living and the Not Living
- III - Personification of the Powers of Nature
- IV - The Solar Theory of Myth
- V - Belief in Metamorphosis into Animals
- VI - Totemism: Belief in Descent from Animal or Plant
- VII - Survival of Myth in History
- VIII - Myth Among the Hebrews
- IX - Conclusion
- PART II - DREAMS: THEIR PLACE IN THE GROWTH OF BELIEFS IN THE SUPERNATURAL
- I - Difference Between Savage and Civilised Man
- II - Limitations of Barbaric Language
- III - Barbaric Confusion Between Names and Things
- IV - Barbaric Belief in Virtue in Inanimate Things
- V - Barbaric Belief in the Reality of Dreams
- VI - Barbaric Theory of Disease
- VII - Barbaric Theory of a Second Self or Soul
- VIII - Barbaric Philosophy in "Punchkin" and Allied Stories
- IX - Barbaric and Civilised Notions of the Soul's Nature
- X - Barbaric Belief in Souls in Brutes and Plants and Lifeless Things
- XI - Barbaric and Civilised Notions About the Soul's Dwelling-Place
- XII - Conclusions from the Foregoing
- XIII - Dreams as Omens and Media of Communication Between Gods and Men
- Endnotes