Custom and Myth New Edition

CUSTOM AND MYTH BY ANDREW LANG, M.A. HON. FELLOW OF MERTON COLLEGE OXFORD _NEW EDITION_ LONDON LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 1893 _All rights reserved_ TO E. B. TYLOR AUTHOR OF 'PRIMITIVE CULTURE' THESE STUDIES OF THE OLDEST STORIES Are Dedicated PREFACE. Since the first publication of _Custom and Myth_, many other works have appeared, dealing on the same principles with matters of belief, fable and ritual. Were the book to be re-written, numerous fresh pieces of evidence might be adduced in support of its conclusions. In Mr. Frazer's _Golden Bough_ (Macmillan) the student will find a carefully conceived argument, and a large collection of testimonies, bearing on the wide diffusion, among savages…

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