  | PART I. | | MYTH: ITS BIRTH AND GROWTH. | | SECTION | | PAGE | | I. | Its Primitive Meaning | 3 | | II. | Confusion of Early Thought between the Living and the Not Living | 12 | | III. | Personification of the Powers of Nature | 19 | | (a.) The Sun and Moon | 19 | | (b.) The Stars | 29 | | (c.) The Earth and Sky | 34 | | (d.) Storm and Lightning, etc. | 41 | | (e.) Light and Darkness | 48 | | (f.) The Devil | 53 | | IV. | The Solar Theory of Myth | 61 | | V. | Belief in Metamorphosis into Animals | 81 | | VI. | Totemism: Belief in Descent from Animal or Plant | 99 | | VII. | Survival of Myth in History | 114 | | VIII. | Myth among the Hebrews | 131 | | IX. | Conclusion | 137 | | | PART II. | | DREAMS: THEIR PLACE IN THE GROWTH OF BELIEFS IN THE SUPERNATURAL. | | SECTION | | PAGE | | I. | Difference between Savage and Civilised Man | 143 | | II. | Limitations of Barbaric Language | 148 | | III. | Barbaric Confusion between Names and Things | 154 | | IV. | Barbaric Belief in Virtue in Inanimate Things | 160 | | V. | Barbaric Belief in the Reality of Dreams | 168 | | VI. | Barbaric Theory of Disease | 174 | | VII. | Barbaric Theory of a Second Self or Soul | 182 | | VIII. | Barbaric Philosophy in “Punchkin” and Allied Stories | 188 | | IX. | Barbaric and Civilised Notions of the Soul’s Nature | 198 | | X. | Barbaric Belief in Souls in Brutes and Plants and Lifeless Things | 207 | | XI. | Barbaric and Civilised Notions about the Soul’s Dwelling Place | 215 | | XII. | Conclusions from the Foregoing | 222 | | XIII. | Dreams as Omens and Media of Communication between Gods and Men | 236 | | INDEX | 245 |
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