Introduction to Folklore
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780766149403
Subjects: Sociology, Social Studies; Folklore & Mythology - Folklore; Sociology; Social Science
First sentence: TRAVELLING backwards towards the morning of Time in our search for the origins of folk-lore, we must halt at that stage in the evolution of the mental life of man when an intelligent curiosity concerning himself and his surroundings took the place of mere animal inquisitiveness ; when homo sapiens thus further manifested his ever-widening divergence from his prime brethren, the " apes with foreheads villainous low."