Politics & Social Sciences | Anthropology
Cock Lane and Common-Sense
image1
By Andrew Lang 1 Oct, 2019
SAVE FOR LATER
DOWNLOAD
FROM THE PREFACE.......Since the first publication of Cock Lane and Common-Sense in 1894, nothing has occurred to alter greatly the author’s opinions.  He has tried to make the Folklore Society see that such things as modern reports of wraiths, gh ... Read more
FROM THE PREFACE.......Since the first publication of Cock Lane and Common-Sense in 1894, nothing has occurred to alter greatly the author’s opinions.  He has tried to make the Folklore Society see that such things as modern reports of wraiths, ghosts, ‘fire-walking,’ ‘corpse-lights,’ ‘crystal-gazing,’ and so on, are within their province, and within the province of anthropology.  In this attempt he has not quite succeeded.  As he understands the situation, folklorists and anthropologists will hear gladly about wraiths, ghosts, corpse-candles, hauntings, crystal-gazing, and walking unharmed through fire, as long as these things are part of vague rural tradition, or of savage belief.  But, as soon as there is first-hand evidence of honourable men and women for the apparent existence of any of the phenomena enumerated, then Folklore officially refuses to have anything to do with the subject.  Folklore will register and compare vague savage or popular beliefs; but when educated living persons vouch for phenomena which (if truly stated) account in part for the origin of these popular or savage beliefs, then Folklore turns a deaf ear.  The logic of this attitude does not commend itself to the author of Cock Lane and Common-Sense. Less
  • File size
  • Print pages
  • Publisher
  • Publication date
  • Language
  • ISBN
  • 259.461 KB
  • 240
  • Public Domain Books
  • 2019-03-12
  • English
  • 978-1406526097
autor-image
Andrew Lang
Author
Andrew Lang, FBA was a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known as a collector of folk and fairy tales. The Andrew Lang lectures at the ...
Related Books
view all
image1
The Clyde Mystery; A Study in Forgeries and Folklore:
image1
Myth, Ritual and Religion, Vol. 1 (of 2):
image1
Anthropophagy:
image1
Reflections:
image1
'Aktenzeichen XY...ungelöst' - Eine Fahndungssendung als Ausdruck der Kontrollgesellschaft: Eine Fahndungssendung als Ausdruck der Kontrollgesellschaf:
image1
A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia:
image1
NousSommes: Collectivity and the Digital in French Thought and Culture Susie Cronin Editor:
image1
The Making of Religion:
image1
Custom and Myth:
image1
The Secret of the Totem:
image1
Moral Panics over Contemporary Children and Youth Charles Krinsky Editor:
image1
'Brothers' or Others?: Propriety and Gender for Muslim Arab Sudanese in Egypt Anita:
image1
Man, Past and Present:
image1
Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2):
image1
''The Shining Ones'': An Etymological Essay on the Amazigh Roots of Egyptian Civilization Helene:
image1
'A voce d'e creature Don:
image1
'Am Anfang war's die ideale Lösung' - Bulimie als kultureller Spiegel individualisierter Gesellschaften: Bulimie als kultureller Spiegel individualisi:
image1
Changing Identifications and Alliances in North-east Africa:
image1
Il signore della terra:
image1
Modernities:
image1
The North American Indian Volume 1:
image1
Human No More: Digital Subjectivities, Unhuman Subjects, and the End of Anthropology Neil L. Whitehead Editor:
image1
Magic and Religion:
image1
Social Origins and Primal Law:
image1
The Natural History of the Varieties of Man:

Stay in touch.

© 2024 AMPLE READS