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The wolf, thinks Mannhardt, is the Vegetation-spirit in animal form. Many examples of the 'Corn-wolf' in popular custom are given by Mr. The Hirpi of Soracte, then, are so called because they play the part of Corn-wolves, or Korndamonen in wolf shape. Mannhardt's Deficiency In all this ingenious reasoning, Mannhardt misses a point.
'In North Jutland, when the vapours are seen going with a wavy motion along the earth in the heat of summer, they say, "Loki is sowing oats today," or "Loki is driving his goats." 'N.B. Oats in Danish are havre, which suggests O.N. hafrar, goats. Modern Icelandic has hafrar=oats, but the word is not found in the old language. Is Loki a corn-spirit? Mannhardt's 'Mean Argument'
Max Muller observes that 'Mannhardt's mythological researches have never been fashionable. They are now very much in fashion; they greatly inspire Mr. Frazer and Mr. Farnell. 'They seemed to me, and still seem to me, too exclusive, says Mr. Mr. Max Muller also mentions his own complaints, of 'the omnipresent sun and the inevitable dawn appearing in ever so many disguises.
I do not feel sure that Mannhardt did return to his old colours. Why Mannhardt is Thought to have been Converted Mannhardt's friend, Mullenhoff, had an aversion to solar myths. He said: 'I deeply mistrust all these combinations of the new so-called comparative mythology. Mannhardt was preparing to study Lithuanian solar myths, based on Lithuanian and Lettish marriage songs.
Like Mr. Max Muller does not like that position. That position he assails. It was Mannhardt's, however, when he wrote the book quoted, and, so far, Mannhardt was not absolutely one of Mr. Max Muller's 'supporters' unless I am one. 'I have even been accused, says Mr. Max Muller, 'of intentionally ignoring or suppressing Mannhardt's labours. Mannhardt Mannhardt, for a time, says Mr.
Such is Mannhardt's conclusion. Taken in connection with his still later essay on Demeter, it really leaves no room for doubt. There, I think, he does 'throw out the child with the bath, throw the knife after the handle. I do not suppose that Mr. Max Muller ever did quote Mannhardt as one of his supporters, but such a claim, if really made, would obviously give room for criticism.
Max Muller may have, probably has, referred to these sayings of Mannhardt; or, if he has not, no author is obliged to mention everybody who disagrees with him. Mannhardt's method was mainly that of folklore, not of philology. He examined peasant customs and rites as 'survivals' of the oldest paganism. Mr.
Continuing from these, I seek to elucidate darker things. I search out the simplest radical ideas and perceptions, the germ-cells from whose combined growth mythical tales form themselves in very different ways. Mr. Frazer gives us a similar description of Mannhardt's method, whether dealing with sun myths or tree myths.
The germs of the myths may be popular poetical views of elemental phenomena. But to insist on elemental allegories through all the legends of the Dioskouroi, and of the Trojan war, would be to strain a hypothesis beyond the breaking-point. Mannhardt's Approach to Mr. Max Muller In this essay on Lettish Sun-songs Mannhardt comes nearest to Mr. Max Muller.
Max Muller says, 'It is well known that in his last, nay posthumous essay, Mannhardt, no mean authority, returned to the same conviction. I do not know which is Mannhardt's very last essay, but I shall prove that in the posthumous essays Mannhardt threw cold water on the whole method of philological comparative mythology. However, as proof of Mannhardt's return to Mr. What Mannhardt said
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