James George Frazer - Origin-of-death Stories

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:

  1. The Story of the Two Messengers
  2. The Story of the Waxing and Waning Moon
  3. The Story of the Serpent and his Cast Skin
  4. The Story of the Banana

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