Myths That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie (English) Paperback

Description: Myths That Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie Classics for Your Collection: goo.gl/U80LCr --------- This book is a collection of the basic myths in Greek and Norse mythology which every child should know. Introduction from the Book Among every people and in every language there are found stories, superstitions, traditions, phrases, which are not to be explained by the thoughts or ideas or beliefs of people now living; and the same stories, superstitions, phrases, are found among people as far apart as those of Norway and Australia. The people of to-day tell these stories or remember the superstitions or use the phrases without understanding where they came from or what they meant when first used. As the ground in some sections is full of arrow heads that have been buried no one knows how many centuries, so the poetry we read, the music we hear, the stories told us when we are children, have come down from a time in the history of man so early that there are in many cases no other records or remains of it. These stories vary greatly in details; they fit every climate and wear the peculiar dress of every country; but it is easy to see that they are made up of the same materials, and that they describe the same persons or ideas or things whether they are told in Greece or India or Norway or Brittany. Wherever they are found they make it certain that they come from a very remote time and grew out of ideas or feelings and ways of looking at the world which a great many men shared in common in many places. When a man sneezes, people still say in some countries, "God bless you." They do not know why they say it; they simply repeat what they heard older people say when they were children, and do not know that every time they use these words they recall the age when people believed that evil spirits could enter into a man, and that when a man sneezed he expelled one of these spirits. It is a very old and widely spread superstition that when a dog howls at night someone not far away is dying or will soon die. Many people are uncomfortable when they hear a dog howling after dark, not because they believe that dogs have any knowledge that death is present or coming, but because their ancestors for many centuries believed that the howling of a dog was ominous, and the habits of our ancestors leave deep traces in our natures. Scroll Up and Get Your Copy! Also by Hamilton Wright Mabie Fairy Tales Every Child Should Know Folk Tales Every Child Should Know Famous Stories Every Child Should Know Heroes Every Child Should Know The Oz Series Book 1: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Book 2: The Marvelous Land of Oz Book 3: Ozma of Oz Book 4: Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz Book 5: The Road to Oz Book 6: The Emerald City of Oz Book 7: The Patchwork Girl of Oz Book 8: TIK-TOK of Oz Book 9: The Scarecrow of Oz Book 10: Rinkitink in Oz Book 11: The Lost Princess of Oz Book 12: The Tin Woodman of Oz Book 13: The Magic of Oz Book 14: Glinda of OZ FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Hamilton Wright Mabie, A.M., L.H.D., LL.D. (December 13, 1846 - December 31, 1916) was an American essayist, editor, critic, and lecturer. He was born at Cold Spring, N. Y. in 1846. Mabie was the youngest child of Sarah Colwell Mabie who was from a wealthy Scottish-English family and Levi Jeremiah Mabie, whose ancestors were Scots-Dutch. They were early immigrants to New Amsterdam, New Netherland about 1647. Due to business opportunities with the opening of the Erie Canal his family moved to Buffalo, New York when he was approaching school age. At the young age of 16 he passed his college entrance examination, but waited a year before he attended Williams College (1867) and the Columbia Law School (1869). In 1890, a small collection of Mabies essays which reflected upon life, literature and nature were published as a volume entitled My Study Fire". He received honorary degrees from his own alma mater, from Union College, and from Western Reserve and Washington and Lee universities. Although he passed his bar exams in 1869 he hated both the study and practice of law. In 1876 he married Jeanette Trivett. In the summer of 1879 he was hired to work at the weekly magazine, Christian Union (renamed The Outlook in 1893), an association that lasted until his death. Details ISBN1537638483 Pages 206 Series Childrens Classics Language English Year 2016 ISBN-10 1537638483 ISBN-13 9781537638485 Format Paperback Publication Date 2016-09-12 Publisher Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing Platform Illustrations Illustrations, black and white Author Hamilton Wright Mabie DEWEY 800 Series Number 44 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:128022789;

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