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Psychology in Relation to the Popular Story.
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their mode of operation in any given case, demand an investigation of preceding and contemporary social institutions, customs, and beliefs.

And all these conclusions together help to demonstrate that the rejection by certain writers, as irrelevant to the psychological study of the popular tale, of all considerations of "historical pedigree" is wholly unsound.


Psychological Laboratory,
The University of Cambridge.