The Czechoslovak Review/Volume 2/Slavic Mythology
It is time that the American children should be nurtured in the public schools on something else than the mythology of the Germans. Our educational experts proceed from the theory that American children are all little Teutons, that at the age of eight or ten years they are at the same stage of development as were the grown-up savage Teutons two thousand years ago and that they should learn to look with veneration upon Wotan and the other war deities of the German mythology.
A volume has just been published under the editorship of Louis Herbert Gray containing an account of the Celtic mythology by John Arnott Maccullouch, and of Slavic mythology by Jan Máchal. Dr. Máchal is professor at the University of Prague, and the present work is a free translation of his Bájesloví Slovanské, Prague 1907. Dr. Máchal has been long considered an authority on the beliefs of ancient Slavs and he gives in this book a full account of the deities and spirits worshipped by the various branches of the Slav race, from Bohemia to Russia. It is to be hoped that this book will be the beginning of a sustained interest in Slav mythology and that we shall soon have a book on similar lines got up so as to interest the children.
This work was published before January 1, 1929 and is anonymous or pseudonymous due to unknown authorship. It is in the public domain in the United States as well as countries and areas where the copyright terms of anonymous or pseudonymous works are 95 years or less since publication.
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