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Folk Lore
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Nowadays anthropology is busy with the gathering of chips of stones and of long-forgotten and buried remnants, in order to reconstruct the history of human, physical and social development. Much more important than those remote periods and than the material world, is the history of our intellectual development, to gather all the chips of the human genius, scattered and buried under the ruins of old literatures, and hidden in the popular literature. The youth of the human mind and the poetical re
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― Jewish Folk-Lore In The Middle Ages
― Jewish Folk-Lore In The Middle Ages
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The big knight fell heavily to the ground, and lay there, as nearly dead as possible. His servants came running from the castle and took him in. He got better in the end, but nobody cared much about that.
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― King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
― King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
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