Produced by Clare Boothby, Sam W. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net FOLKLORE AS AN HISTORICAL SCIENCE BY GEORGE LAURENCE GOMME WITH TWENTY-EIGHT ILLUSTRATIONS METHUEN & CO. 36 ESSEX STREET W.C. LONDON _First Published in 1908_ [Illustration: "PEDLAR'S SEAT," SWAFFHAM CHURCH] CONTENTS CHAPTER I. HISTORY AND FOLKLORE _pages_ 1-122 INTRODUCTORY _pages_ 1-13 HISTORY AND LOCAL AND PERSONAL TRADITIONS 13-46 HISTORY AND FOLK-TALES 46-84 TRADITIONAL LAW 84-100 MYTHOLOGY AND TRADITION 100-110 HISTORIANS AND TRADITION 110-120 II. MATERIALS AND METHODS 123-179 TRADITIONAL MATERIAL 123-129 MYTH, FOLK-TALE, AND LEGEND 129-153 CUSTOM, BELIEF, AND RITE 154-179 III. PSYCHOLOGICAL CONDITIONS 180-207 IV. ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONDITIONS 208-302 PRIMITIVE INFLUENCES 211-238 EARLIEST TYPES OF SOCIAL EXISTENCE 238-261 AUSTRALIAN TOTEM SOCIETY TESTED BY THE EVIDENCE 262-274 TOTEM SURVIVALS IN BRITAIN 274-296 SYNOPSIS OF CULTURE-STRUCTURE OF SEMANGS OF MALAY PENINSULA 297-302 V. SOCIOLOGICAL CONDITIONS 303-319 VI. EUROPEAN CONDITIONS 320-337 VII. ETHNOLOGICAL CONDITIONS 338-366 INDEX 367-371 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE 1. PEDLAR'S SEAT, SWAFFHAM CHURCH, NORFOLK. _Frontispiece_ 2. CARVED WOODEN FIGURE OF THE PEDLAR IN SWAFFHAM CHURCH 8 3. CARVED WOODEN FIGURE OF THE PEDLAR'S DOG IN SWAFFHAM CHURCH 8 Nos. 1-3 are taken from photographs, and show how the story of the Pedlar of Swaffham has been interpreted in carving. The costume of the Pedlar is noticeable. 4. THE PEDLAR OF LAMBETH AND HIS DOG, FIGURED IN THE WINDOW (NOW DESTROYED) OF LAMBETH CHURCH (from Allen's _History of Lambeth_) 20 5. THE PEDLAR OF LAMBETH AND HIS DOG AS DRAWN IN 1786 FOR DUCAREL'S _History of Lambeth_ 22