A Guide to Mythology

by Helen A. Clarke

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
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TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

To
MY LITTLE FRIEND
KATHARINE CORFIELD NEWBOLD

PREFATORY NOTE

It is a pleasure to express my thanks to publishers and authors for courteous permission given me to include in this book stories from their collections. To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the publishers of “Algonquin Legends,” by J. G. Leland, and of Bryant’s translation of the “Odyssey”; to J. B. Lippincott Co., the publishers of “Gods and Heroes of Old Japan,” by Violet M. Pasteur, and of “Old Deccan Days,” by Mary Frere; to A. Wessels Co., the publishers and to Mr. W. W. Canfield, the author of “Legends of the Iroquois”; to Ginn & Co., the publishers of “Classic Myths in English Literature,” based on Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” by Charles Mills Gayley; to Macmillan & Co., publishers of “Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, Done into English Prose,” by A. Lang; to Scott, Foresman & Co., publishers of “Norse Mythology,” by Melville B. Anderson. Other collections, out of print, as far as I know—the original publishers no longer being in existence, from which I have taken stories, are: “Indian Fairy Tales Based on Schoolcraft,” by Cornelius Mathews, and “Indian Myths,” by Ellen R. Emerson; also from the following English publications: “Polynesian Myths,” by Sir George Grey; “Russian Stories,” by Ralston.

I am also deeply indebted, as every one who studies mythology must be, to the following works, among others in various branches of the subject: Max Müller’s “Chips from a German Workshop,” Cox’s “Mythology of the Aryan Races,” John Fiske’s “Myths and Mythmakers,” Frazer’s “Golden Bough,” Hartland’s “Myth of Perseus,” Clodd’s “Childhood of Religions,” Andrew Lang’s “Custom and Myth,” Tyler’s “Primitive Culture,” Mills’s “Tree of Mythology,” Chamberlain’s “The Child and Childhood in Folk Thought,” De Gubernatis’s “Zoological Mythology,” Dr. Brinton’s “American Hero Myths,” “Myths of the New World,” as well as to many collections of folk-tales.