The handbook of folklore / [Charlotte Sophia Burne].

  • Charlotte Sophia Burne
Date:
1914
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Credit: The handbook of folklore / [Charlotte Sophia Burne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    improved treatment by governing nations of the subject- races under their sway. In the words of Sir Richard Temple (FL.J., iv. 209), ‘‘ we cannot understand the latter rightly unless we deeply study them, and it must be remembered that close acquaintance and a right understanding beget sympathy, and sympathy begets good government ; and who is there to say that a scientific study which promotes this, and indeed to some extent renders it possible, is not a practical one?” The subjects comprehended under the name of Folklore may be arranged in three principal groups with sub-headings as follows : I. Belief and Practice relating to : (1) The Earth and the Sky. (2) The Vegetable World. (3) The Animal World. (4) Human Beings. (5) Things made by Man. (6) The Soul and Another Life. (7) Superhuman Beings, (Gods, Godlings, and Others). (8) Omens and Divination. (9) The Magic Art. (10) Disease and Leechcraft. II. Customs. (x) Social and Political Institutions. (2) Rites of Individual Life. (3) Occupations and Industries. (4) Calendar Fasts and Festivals. (5) Games, Sports, and Pastimes. III. Stories, Songs and Sayings. (x) Stories: (a) told as true; (0) told for amusement. (2) Songs and Ballads. (3) Proverbs and Riddles. (4) Proverbial Rhymes and Local Sayings. It will be observed that this classification is of a purely objective character. No attempt is made to docket any of
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