Transcriber’s Notes
Obvious typographical errors have been silently corrected. Variations in hyphenation and accents have been standardised but all other spelling and punctuation remains unchanged.
Footnote 20 is referenced twice several pages apart in the text.
The cover was prepared by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain.
Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph
Series, No. 18
The Myth of the Birth of the Hero
A Psychological Interpretation of Mythology
BY
DR. OTTO RANK
of Vienna
Authorized Translation by
DRS. F. ROBBINS and SMITH ELY JELLIFFE