Nagualism: A Study in Native American Folk-Lore and History. E-book. Formato PDF Daniel Garrison Brinton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

It is evident on examining the later works of the Roman clergy in Mexico that the Church did not look with any such lenient eye on the possibly harmless, or even beneficial, exercise of these magical devices. We find a further explanation of what they were, preserved in a work of instruction to confessors, published by Father Juan Bautista, at Mexico, in the year 1600.

American Hero-Myths: A Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent. E-book. Formato PDF Daniel Garrison Brinton   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Outlines of the Fundamental American Myth — The White Culture-hero and the Four Brothers — Interpretation of the Myth — Comparison with the Aryan Hermes Myth — With the aryo-semitic Cadmus Myth — ~with Osirian Myths — The Myth of the Virgin Mother — The Interpreta tion thus Supported.

American Hero-MythsA Study in the Native Religions of the Western Continent. E-book. Formato EPUB Daniel Garrison Brinton   -  Edizioni Aurora Boreale, 2022  - 

American Hero-Myths by Daniel Garrison Brinton, published first time in 1892, is still today one of the most important contributions to the comparative study of religions and an endeavor to present in a critically correct light some of the fundamental conceptions which are found in the native beliefs of the tribes of America.The importance of the study of myths has been abundantly shown of recent years, and the methods of analyzing them have been established with satisfactory clearness, but it has not yet even passed the stage where the distinction between myth and tradition has been recognized. Nearly all historians continue to write about some of the American Hero-Gods as if they had been chiefs of tribes at some undetermined epoch, and the effort to trace the migrations and affiliations of nations by similarities in such stories is of almost daily occurrence.