Download or read book The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1919, Vol. 18 (Classic Reprint) written by American Folklore Society and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Journal of American Folk-Lore, 1919, Vol. 18 The Frog Prince is particularly interesting, since it combines, in some of its versions, disenchantment by personal contact with disen chantment by decapitation or by some other method of killing the magical body. In some forms of the great class of animal-spouse tales, the mysterious husband is a man by night and an animal (frog, serpent, wolf, etc.) by day, and lays aside his beast-skin when he assumes human shape.3 This gives us a clear insight into the real meaning of disenchantment by beheading. We shall return to the point later. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.