The Legend of Perseus A STUDY OF TRADITION IN STORY CUSTOM AND BELIEF: BY Edwin Sidney Hartland F.S.A. VOL. I. THE SUPERNATURAL BIRTH Published by David Nutt in the Strand, London 1894 [IMPRINT] Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty PREFACE {v} The classical myth of Perseus belongs to a group of folktales ranking among the foremost in interest for the student of the evolution of human thought and human institutions. It is compounded, like other folktales, of incidents which have varied in their order and prominence, as well as in their mode of presentment, at different times and in different lands. What constitutes its importance is the fact that certain of these incidents …
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