Chapter VII: Death and Birth as Transformation

Birth often merely a new manifestation of a pre-existing person--The Egyptian tale of The Two Brothers--European and other variants--Transformation {xii} in _märchen_--The Singing Bone--The Scottish ballad of Binnorie--Santal variants--New birth of dead man from eating a portion of his body--Metamorphosis of dead man into a tree in _märchen_, saga, and superstition--Origin of maize and of manioc--Attis--Metamorphosis into animal forms--Savage doctrine of Transformation--Buddhist popular belief--Alleged Celtic dogma of Transmigration--Taliessin--Tuan mac Cairill--Etain--Son a new birth of the father or other ancestor--Superstitions current in India, Africa, the South Seas, Europe, America--The naming of children--Transformation the creed of savages.

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The Vignette on the title-page is from the well-known 5th century bowl from Caere, figured by Gerhard, Berl. Winckelmann Progr. 1854.

THE LEGEND OF PERSEUS

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