Custom and Myth

by Andrew Lang

[{55b}] Rel. de la Nouvelle-France (1636), p. 114.

[{56}] Codrington, in Journal Anthrop. Inst. Feb. 1881. There is a Breton Märchen of a land where people had to ‘bring the Dawn’ daily with carts and horses. A boy, whose sole property was a cock, sold it to the people of this country for a large sum, and now the cock brings the dawn, with a great saving of trouble and expense. The Märchen is a survival of the state of mind of the Solomon Islanders.

[{58a}] Selected Essays, i. 460.

[{58b}] Ibid. i. 311.

[{59}] Ueber Entwicklungsstufen der Mythenbildung (1874), p. 148.

[{60a}] ii. 127.

[{60b}] G. D. M., ii. 127, 129.

[{61a}] Gr. My., i. 144.

[{61b}] De Abst., ii. 202, 197.

[{61c}] Rel. und Myth., ii. 3.