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Title: Modern Greek Folklore and Ancient Greek Religion A Study in Survivals
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CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS London: FETTER LANE, E.C. C. F. CLAY, MANAGER
Bombay and Calcutta: MACMILLAN AND CO., LTD.
FELLOW AND LECTURER OF PEMBROKE COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, FORMERLY CRAVEN STUDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY
Cambridge: PRINTED BY JOHN CLAY, M.A. AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
LABORUM ADHORTANTE IPSO SUSCEPTORUM HUNC DEDICAVI FRUCTUM.
This book is the outcome of work undertaken in Greece during my two years’ tenure of the Craven Studentship from 1898 to 1900. It is therefore my first duty gratefully to commemorate John, Lord Craven, to whose benefactions of two and a half centuries ago I owed my opportunity for research.
The scheme of work originally proposed was the investigation of the customs and superstitions of modern Greece in their possible bearing upon the life and thought of ancient Greece; and to the Managers of the Craven Fund at that time, with whom was associated Mr R. A. Neil of Pembroke College to whose memory I have dedicated this book, I render hearty thanks for their willingness to encourage a venture new in direction, vague in scope, and possibly void of result.