For the use of students in training colleges and others. The information found in this book was originally composed as lectures for students at a training college. The author's illustrative examples were taken from the Bible, the Iliad and Odyssey, Beowulf and versions or settings of Icelandic myth or saga. Contents: history of folklore; psychological elements in the growth of myth; still existing relics of old custom and myth; myths of the heavenly bodies; myths of sky and sea; myths due to great catastrophes; creation myths; myths due to invention and discovery; myths of birth and death; myths of mind; twin myths; myths of various origin.