Excerpt from The Occult Significance of Blood: Authorised Translation From Notes of a Lecture All those things which have come down to us in the legends and myths of various nations; and which touch upon human life, will in our day undergo a peculiar transformation with regard to the whole conception and interpre tation of human nature. The age is past in which legends, fairy-tales, and myths were looked upon merely as expressions of the child like fancy of a people. Indeed, the time has even gone by when, in a half-learned, half-child? Like way, it was the fashion to allude to legends as the poetical expression of a nation's soul. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.