A GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
Automedon and the Horses of Achilles. H. Regnault.
A
GUIDE TO MYTHOLOGY
BY
HELEN A. CLARKE
Author of “Ancient Myth in Modern Poets,” “Longfellow’s
Country,” “Hawthorne’s Country,”
“The Poets’ New England,” Etc.
Garden City New York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1918
COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
To
MY LITTLE FRIEND
KATHARINE CORFIELD NEWBOLD
It is a pleasure to express my thanks to publishersand authors for courteous permission given me toinclude in this book stories from their collections.To Houghton, Mifflin & Co., the publishers of “AlgonquinLegends,” by J. G. Leland, and of Bryant’stranslation of the “Odyssey”; to J. B. LippincottCo., the publishers of “Gods and Heroes of OldJapan,” by Violet M. Pasteur, and of “Old DeccanDays,” by Mary Frere; to A. Wessels Co., the publishersand to Mr. W. W. Canfield, the author of“Legends of the Iroquois”; to Ginn & Co., thepublishers of “Classic Myths in English Literature,”based on Bulfinch’s “Age of Fable,” byCharles Mills Gayley; to Macmillan & Co., publishersof “Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus, Done into EnglishProse,” by A. Lang; to Scott, Foresman & Co.,publishers of “Norse Mythology,” by Melville B.Anderson. Other collections, out of print, as far asI know—the original publishers no longer being inexistence, from which I have taken stories, are:“Indian Fairy Tales Based on Schoolcraft,” by CorneliusMathews, and “Indian Myths,” by Ellen R.Emerson; also from the following English publications:“Polynesian Myths,” by Sir George Grey;“Russian Stories,” by Ralston.
I am also deeply indebted, as every one who studiesmythology must be, to the following works, amongothers in various branches of the subject: Max Müller’s“Chips from a German Workshop,” Cox’s “Mythologyof the Aryan Races,” John Fiske’s “Mythsand Mythmakers,” Frazer’s “Golden Bough,” Hartland’s“Myth of Perseus,” Clodd’s “Childhood ofReligions,” Andrew Lang’s “Custom and Myth,”Tyler’s “Primitive Culture,” Mills’s “Tree of Mythology,”Chamberlain’s “The Child and Childhoodin Folk Thought,” De Gubernatis’s “Zoological Mythology,”Dr. Brinton’s “American Hero Myths,”“Myths of th