A STUDY OF TRADITION IN STORY
CUSTOM AND BELIEF: BY
Edwin Sidney Hartland
F.S.A.
VOL. III.
ANDROMEDA. MEDUSA
Published by David Nutt
in the Strand, London
1896
Edinburgh: T. and A. Constable, Printers to Her Majesty
TO
DAVID BRYNMÔR JONES, Q.C., M.P.
If any worth be found within these pages,
If any skill, however poor, have traced
Man’s thoughts and purposes down the long ages
Where thought is dim and purpose half-effaced—
To you the opportunity be reckon’d,
To you the worth. You flung the portals wide
Which guard enchanted palaces, and beckon’d
To new adventures life had else denied—
Enchanted palaces, where gods forgotten
Dream through an afternoon of endless years;
Adventures follow’d, far from fields erst foughten,
’Neath wilder heav’ns, aflame with mightier spheres.
Yours be the spoils, then, from that realm of glamour;
At least some gracious memories they will bring,
When husht the forum, husht is party clamour,
And you can listen to their whispering.
This volume contains, in addition to the final instalment of theinquiry sketched at the beginning of the first volume, a SupplementaryList of Works referred to in volumes ii. and iii., and the Dedicationand General Index for the whole.
Since the publication of the second volume local inquiries havesatisfied me that the account of the ceremony at Market Drayton (orrather at Wollerton, near that town), mentioned on p. 292 of thevolume in question, is inaccurate. The wine and biscuits were handedto the bearers, but not across the coffin; and the minister merelyreprobated in general terms the custom of drinking at funerals.
Corrigenda of a minor character are, in volume i. p. 57, note 1, for217 read 178, and p. 61, last line but one, for fisherman readmerchant; in volume ii. p. 147, note, after letter xxviii. insertto Daines Barrington, and p. 271, note 4, for 68 read 57.
I cannot lay down the pen without reiterating my very inadequatethanks to Mr. Rouse and Mr. Alfred Nutt for the unstinted andinvaluable aid I have received in various ways from them: aid which,beginning with the opening chapter, has been continued to the latestpages of this effort to solve the problem of the Legend of Perseus.
Highgarth, Gloucester,
June 1896.
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The Rescue of Andromeda in Märchen
Simplest form of the incident—Strong Jack—The Herdsman type—Menialhero in other tales—Punishment of impostors—Attacking the monsterfrom inside—Faithless Sister type—Stolen Sister type—Underworldtype—Fearless Johnny type—Helpful Animals—Change of sex—Rescue ofyouth—Omaha tale—Its European origin