From Ritual to Romance
Jessie Laidlay Weston, independent scholar and folklorist, working mainly on mediaeval Arthurian texts (1850-1928)
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Table of Contents
-01- About this book
-02- PREFACE
-03- INTRODUCTORY
-04- THE TASK OF THE HERO
-05- THE FREEING OF THE WATERS
-06- TAMMUZ AND ADONIS
-07- PART I. TAMMUZ
-08- MEDIEVAL AND MODERN FORMS OF NATURE RITUAL
-09- THE SYMBOLS
-10- THE SWORD DANCE
-11- THE MEDICINE MAN
-12- APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII
-13- THE FISHER KING
-14- THE SECRET OF THE GRAIL
-15- THE SECRET OF THE GRAIL
-16- MITHRA AND ATTIS
-17- THE PERILOUS CHAPEL
-18- THE AUTHOR
-19- NOTES
-20- APPENDIX