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Start of eBook	1
INTRODUCTION	1
REGENT MYTHOLOGY	9
Autobiographical	11
The Ugly Scars	11
My Criticism of Mr. Max Muller	12
Success of Anthropological Method	12
Mr. Max Muller’s Reply	13
THE STORY OF DAPHNE	13
Tuna and Daphne	15
Criticism of Tuna and Daphne	17
The Explanation	17
Disease of Language and Folk-etymology	18
Mannhardt on Daphne	20
THE QUESTION OF ALLIES	20
Italian Critics	20
A Dutch Defender	20
Reply	21
Professor Tiele on Our Merits	22
Destruction and Construction	22
Our Errors	23
Uses of Philology	23
Personal Controversy	24
The Story of Cronos	25
Professor Tiele on Sunset Myths	26
Our Lack of Scientific Exactness	26
My Lack of Explanation of Cronos	27
My Crime	27
My Reply to Professor Tiele	28
Conclusion as to Professor Tiele	28
MANNHARDT	30
Moral Character Impeached	30
Mannhardt	30
Mannhardt’s Letters	31
How Mannhardt differs from Mr. Max Muller	32
Mannhardt’s Method	32
Another Claim on Mannhardt	33
What Mannhardt said	33
My Relations to Mannhardt	34
Mannhardt’s Return to his old Colours	34
Mannhardt’s Attitude to Philology	34
Irritating Conduct of Mannhardt	35
Mannhardt on Demeter Erinnys	35
Why Mannhardt is Thought to have been Converted	37
Mannhardt’s Final Confession	37
Mannhardt on Solar Myths	38
The Golden Fleece	40
Mannhardt’s Approach to Mr. Max Muller	41
PHILOLOGY AND DEMETER ERINNYS	42
My Theory of the Horse Demeter	43
TOTEMISM	44
Totemism Defined	45
What a Totem is	45
The Evidence for Sign-boards	45
More about Totems	47
Heraldry and Totems	47
Gods and Totems	47
An Objection	47
A Weak Brother	48
Mr. Frazer and Myself	49
Greek Totemism	49
Philological Theory	50
Mr. Frazer on Animals in Greek Religion	51
Aryan Totems (?)	52
Mr. Frazer and I	53
Mr. Frazer on Origin of Totemism	54
Mr. Frazer’s Theory	55
THE VALIDITY OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL EVIDENCE	55
Positions which I never held	56
Anthropological Evidence	57
Mr. Max Muller’s Method of Controversy	57
Mr. Max Muller on our Evidence	58
The Test of Recurrences	60
Bias of Theory	60
Concerning Missionaries	61
THE PHILOLOGICAL METHOD IN ANTHROPOLOGY	61
Names of Savage Gods	62
A Hottentot God	63
Cause of our Scepticism	63
Phonetic Bickerings	64
Phonetic Rules	64
Basis of a Science	64
Philology in Action—Indra	65
Obscuring the Veda	65
CRITICISM OF FETISHISM	66
Dr. Oldenberg	66
Comparisons, when odious	66
A Question of Logic	66
Anthropology and the Mysteries	67
Abstract Ideas of Savages	67
Perception of the Infinite	68
Fetishism and Anthropological Method	68
Origin of Fetishes	68
‘Telekinetic’ Origin of Fetishism	69
More Mischiefs of Comparison	70
Still more Nemesis	70
Conclusion as to our Method	73
THE RIDDLE THEORY	73
The Riddle Theory	73
Mordvinian Mythology	76
Lettish Mythology	77
The Chances of Fancy	78
ARTEMIS	78
Artemis	78
Otfried Muller	80
Beast Dances	81
The View of Classical Scholars	81
Mr. Max Muller’s Explanation	82
Wider Application of the Theory	82
The Bear Dance	83
THE FIRE-WALK	84
Mount Soracte	84
Hirpi Sorani	84
Mannhardt’s Deficiency	85
The Fire-walk	86
Fijian Fire-walk	87
Kling Fire-walk	90
Tupua’s Incantation used in Walking Over the Uum-Ti.—Translation	92
Corroborative Evidence	93
Bulgarian Fire-walk	94
Indian Fire-walk	96
Psychical Parallels	97
Conclusion as to Fire-walk	98
Psychical Research	99
THE ORIGIN OF DEATH	99
The Origin of Death	100
Death, regarded as Unnatural	100
Why Men are Mortal	102
Savage Death-Myths	103
The Greek Myth	103
The Serpent	104
Dualistic Myths	105
Economic Myth	105
Maui and Yama	106
Maui Myths	106
Yama	107
Inferences	108
The Stealing of Fire	108
Prometheus	109
Savage Myths of Fire-stealing	109
Origin of the Myth of Fire-stealing	110
CONCLUSION	111
APPENDIX A: The Fire-walk in Spain	112
APPENDIX B: Mr. Macdonell on Vedic Mythology	112
FOOTNOTES	112

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