Two Essays in Folk-Lore

Written by Horatio Hale ‘Two Essays in Folk-Lore’ is a work. It contains two essays: ‘The Fall of Hochelaga; a Study of Popular Tradition’ and ‘Above and Below; a Mythological Disease of Language’. The book was originally published in the Journal of American Folk-Lore between 1890 and 1894. The work says the influence of language perversion on the legendary beliefs and religious opinions of mankind.