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Myths and Legends Every Child Should Know
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This book is actually two books in one volume: Myths Every Child Should Know and Legends Every Child Should Know. Both books are compilations of important myths and legends that have been passed down from storyteller to storyteller for thousands of years, and hold stories that, literally, every child should know. As your child grows older, he or she will constantly run into references to characters, items, and situations present in these stories. Things like the Midas touch turning everything to gold, being a Rip Van Winkle and missing things everyone else knows about, or any reference to Pandoras box. * * * * While these stories vary greatly in details; they fit every climate and wear the peculiar dress of every country; it is easy to see that they are made up of the same materials, and they describe the same persons or ideas or things whether they are told in Greece or India or Norway or Brittany. Wherever they are found they make it certain that they come from a very remote time and grew out of ideas or feelings and ways of looking at the world which a great many men shared in common in many places. These stories were selected by H.W. Mabie because they throw light on the mind and character of the ages that produced them; they are part of the history of the unfolding of the human mind in the world; and, above all, they are interesting. * * * * Myths are highly imaginative and poetic explanations of the world - and of the life of man in it - at a time when scientific knowledge and habits of thought didnt exist. Myths Every Child Should Know contains 16 stories: The Three Golden Apples, The Pomegranate Seeds, The Chimæra, The Miraculous Pitcher, The Golden Touch, The Gorgons Head, The Dragons Teeth, The Paradise of Children, The Cyclops, The Argonauts, The Giant Builder, How Odin Lost His Eye, The Quest of the Hammer, The Apples of Idun, The Death of Balder, and The Star and the Lily. * * * * Legends, on the other hand, have some slight historical basi
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