Excerpt from Storyology: Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore
The principal object of this Foreword is to inform the expert Folklorist and the case-hardened Mythologist (comparative or otherwise) that the following pages are intended for those who, being neither expert nor case-hardened, come under that gracious and catholic term - general reader. The writer addresses not the scholiast, but the ordinary person who likes to read about what he has not time to study.
Some portion of what is here printed has appeared in a once popular magazine now defunct. The author hastens to add, for the relief of the irreverent, that the journal long survived the ordeal of the publication. Nevertheless this book appears on its merits, or otherwise, and seeks no support from past attainment.
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