Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language. Wentworth Webster

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       Wentworth Webster

      Basque Legends; With an Essay on the Basque Language

      Published by Good Press, 2019

       [email protected]

      EAN 4057664637550

       Introduction.

       I.—Legends of the Tartaro.

       The Tartaro.

       M. d’Abbadie’s Version.

       Errua, the Madman.

       Variations of Errua.

       The Three Brothers, the Cruel Master, and the Tartaro.

       The Tartaro and Petit Perroquet.

       II—The Heren-Suge.—The Seven-Headed Serpent.

       The Grateful Tartaro and the Heren-Suge.

       The Seven-Headed Serpent.

       The Serpent in the Wood.

       III.—Animal Tales.

       Acheria, the Fox.

       The Ass and the Wolf.

       IV.—Basa-Jaun, Basa-Andre, and Lamiñak.

       Basa-Jauna, the Wild Man.

       The Servant at the Fairy’s.

       The Fairy in the House.

       The Pretty but Idle Girl. 17

       The Devil’s Age.

       The Fairy-Queen Godmother. 20

       V.—Witchcraft and Sorcery.

       The Witches at the Sabbat. 2

       The Witches and the Idiots.

       The Witch and the New-Born Infant.

       The Changeling.

       VI.—Contes des Fées.

       (A.) —Tales like the Keltic.

       (B.) — Contes des Fées , derived directly from the French.

       VII.—Religious Tales.

       Fourteen. 1

       Jesus Christ and the Old Soldier.

       The Poor Soldier and the Rich Man.

       The Widow and her Son. 2

       The Story of the Hair-Cloth Shirt (La Cilice) .

       The Saintly Orphan Girl.

       The Slandered and Despised Young Girl.

       An Essay on the Basque Language,

       Basque Poetry.

       I.—Pastorales.

       II.

       Table of Contents

      The study of the recent science of Comparative Mythology is one of the most popular and attractive of minor scientific pursuits. It deals with a subject-matter which has interested most of us at one period of our lives, and turns the delight of our childhood into a charm and recreation for maturer age. Nor is it without more useful lessons. In it we see more clearly than perhaps elsewhere the reciprocal influence, which none can wholly escape, of words and language upon thought, and again of thought and fancy upon words and language; how mere words and syllables may modify both conception and belief; how the metaphor, which at first presented an object more clearly and vividly to the mind than any more direct form of speech could do, soon confuses and at last wholly distorts the original idea, and buries its meaning under a new and foreign superstructure. We may mark here, too, by numerous examples, how slowly the human mind rises to the conception of any abstract truth, and how continually it falls back upon the concrete fact which it is compelled to picture to itself in order to state in words the simplest mental abstraction. The phrase, “The dawn flies before the sun,” passing into the myth of Daphne


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