Wilhelm Mannhardt (March 26, 1831, Friedrichstadt – December 25, 1880, Danzig) was a German mythologist and folklorist. He is known for his work on Germanic...

Mannhardt is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Johann Mannhardt (1798–1878), German clockmaker, mechanic, and inventor Wilhelm Mannhardt...

Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen, p. 14. Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen, p. 13. Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen, p. 18. Mannhardt, Die Korndämonen, p. 20f. Wilhelm and...

Saglio's Dictionnaire des antiquités. Wilhelm Mannhardt, Mythologische Forschungen (1883), p. 170. Wilhelm Mannhardt Wald- and Feldkulte (2nd ed., 1905)...

folkloric examples collected in great abundance by the folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt. Among the customs attached to the last sheaf of the harvest were...

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016860-0) Wilhelm Mannhardt: Wald- und Feldkulte: Band I. Berlin 1904. (reprint: Elibron Classics...

Walter de Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2000, ISBN 978-3-11-016860-0) Wilhelm Mannhardt: Wald- und Feldkulte: Band I. Berlin 1904. (reprint: Elibron Classics...

figures being burnt in France during the 18th and 19th centuries. Wilhelm Mannhardt recorded that a wickerwork giant was burnt each Midsummer Eve in Brie...

herself. In the 19th century, mythologists such as Jacob Grimm or Wilhelm Mannhardt declared the Buschgroßmutter to be the leader or even the queen of...

Vellere aureo", Mnemosyne, New Series, XXX, pp. 54–67; XXXI, p. 116 Wilhelm Mannhardt, in Zeitschrift für Ethnologie, VII, p. 241 ff, 281 ff Svoronos, M...

myth. Since the Romantics, all study of myth has been comparative. Wilhelm Mannhardt, James Frazer, and Stith Thompson employed the comparative approach...

suggested that it is derived from the Lithuanian word kaurai (fur), while Wilhelm Mannhardt argued it stems from karas (war). Sutvaras (Sotwaros) – god of all...

half-remembered religious conflict. This argument was first suggested by Wilhelm Mannhardt in 1877 (as described in Dumézil, xxiii and Munch, 288). On a similar...

Alphito has been called a mere boogeyman, the 19th-century folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt, forerunner of J.G. Frazer, classified her as originally a "corn mother"...

(1823–1900) theorized that religion began in hedonism and the folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt (1831–1880) suggested that religion began in "naturalism" – by which...

conflict with other scholars' religio-historical theories, such as Wilhelm Mannhardt's analyses of harvest customs. He also came to repudiate the Finnish...

reliability of the Sudovian Book. Most modern Lithuanian scholars follow Wilhelm Mannhardt and treat it as a reliable and independent source, which was used...

North and South America. Johann Cornies Jacob Hoeppner Hilmar Kopper Wilhelm Mannhardt Klaas Reimer Olędrzy Hauländer Vistula Germans Geschichte der Mennoniten-Gemeinde...

treated not as a tree but as a person. German scholar and folklorist Wilhelm Mannhardt holds that the log represented an incarnation of the spirit of vegetation...

staunch defender of the Baltic German tradition. His friendship with Wilhelm Mannhardt led to an interest in Latvian mythology and folk psychology. From...

Eduard Alberti (1827–1898), literary historian and philosopher. Wilhelm Mannhardt (1831–1880), scholar and folklorist William Thordsen (1879–1932),...

(Marburg philosopher), Erich Manegold (Göttingen chemist), Johann Wilhelm Mannhardt (Folklorist), Otto Mattes (Marburg zoologist), Eduard Maurer (Freiberg...

myth. Since the Romantics, all study of myth has been comparative. Wilhelm Mannhardt, Sir James Frazer, and Stith Thompson employed the comparative approach...

Marburg student, Gustav Adolf Deissmann. The two, along with Wissowa and Wilhelm Schulze, were part of a daily Tischrunde 'von glücklischter Zusammensetzung'...

philologist Wilhelm Mannhardt believed that Malecki only prepared a previously written, anonymous manuscript for publication. According to Mannhardt, the book...

but it implies a final procession to either site. During the era of Wilhelm Mannhardt, J.G. Frazer and the Cambridge Ritualists, the October Horse was regarded...

mythological figures According to Lithuanian scholar Daiva Vaitkeviciene, Wilhelm Mannhardt's treatise on Latvian solar myths identified other metaphors for the...

excerpts were published by John William Pierson [de] in 1871 and Wilhelm Mannhardt in 1936. A complete edition with original German text and Lithuanian...

sparkling crown. According to Lithuanian scholar Daiva Vaitkeviciene, Wilhelm Mannhardt's treatise on Latvian solar myths identified other metaphors for the...

Liebrecht's edition of Gervasius of Tilbury Otia Imperialia, p. 149 Wilhelm Mannhardt, Germanische Mythen, p. 360 compare also Hermann Usener's Sintflutsagen...