By Elsie Masson
ISBN-10: 1258862077
ISBN-13: 9781258862077
This feature of folk-tales from Brittany by way of Elsie Masson, vividly illustrated by means of pen and ink drawings and undefined, is an stress-free learn. the standard folklore topics with Celtic impression are current and accounted for; humble peasants, magic farm animals, enchanted castles, evil husbands, courageous childrens, star-crossed fans, and difficult fairies. really the latter. For a few cause the Breton fairies appear to have a darker facet than in other places within the Celtic sector. not just is that this a well illustrated paintings, it makes a very good read.--J.B. Hare
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After 1492, both the Congoid and the Caucasoid expansions were prodigious. The Australoids are today on the decline except among the aboriginal tribes of India, and the Capoids are all but extinct. ) EUROPE r r 1 f? AN INDIAN Ol'FAN Auslralolds 1Caucasoids Mongoloids J Capolds Congo Ids c. D. 1492 ( .. e. , to a 'iocie ty, a people, or to mankind in general. The antith esis of collective is i lid ivid Lin I. C. G. As the infant is linked to its mother in a profound pnrticipntion mystique, even to such a degree that it will absorb, and thus inherit, her tensions and anxieties, so has mankind been linked to the moods and weathers of its mother Earth.
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The end of the Pleistocene, th e dlstnbutlons of these five subspecies of Homo sapiens sapiens have greatly changed. Map 16. "Toward the end of the Pleistocene," states Coon , "after all five geographical races of man had become sapiens . '" Of the five subspecies, the Congoid was the most isolated , in contact with only the Capoid , to the north . Most of Europe and all of the Near East into India were occupied by Caucasoids. Indonesia and southeast Asia, by Australoids. The Mongoloid hearth was China.
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