Origin-of-death Stories
Frazer collected stories from throughout the British Empire and devised four general classifications into which many of them could be grouped:
- The Story of the Two Messengers
- The Story of the Waxing and Waning Moon
- The Story of the Serpent and his Cast Skin
- The Story of the Banana
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