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Donald A. Mackenzie

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Donald A. Mackenzie


Born
in Cromarty, Scotland
July 24, 1873

Died
March 02, 1936

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Donald Alexander Mackenzie was a Scottish journalist and folklorist and a prolific writer on religion, mythology and anthropology in the early 20th century.

Average rating: 3.63 · 860 ratings · 86 reviews · 124 distinct worksSimilar authors
Wonder Tales from Scottish ...

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3.66 avg rating — 210 ratings — published 1886 — 131 editions
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Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

3.51 avg rating — 183 ratings — published 1915 — 123 editions
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German Myths and Legends

4.03 avg rating — 126 ratings — published 1912 — 58 editions
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Egyptian Myths and Legends

3.61 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 1907 — 60 editions
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India: Myths and Legends

3.69 avg rating — 65 ratings — published 1913 — 92 editions
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China and Japan

3.46 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1988 — 32 editions
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Crete and Pre-Hellenic: Myt...

3.50 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1917 — 77 editions
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Elves and Heroes

2.93 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 2006 — 20 editions
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Pre-Columbian America Myths...

3.41 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1923 — 21 editions
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Scottish Fairy Tales

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“Skirner had no fear. “Our fates,” he said, “are spun when we are born. Our doom we can never escape.”
Donald A. Mackenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend

“Our principal sources of knowledge of this great Pagan religious system are the two Eddas of Iceland. These Eddas are collections of mythical and heroic poems and stories. One is called the Elder or Poetic Edda; the other, Snorri’s or the Prose Edda. The latter was discovered first; it came into the possession of appreciative scholars in the seventeenth century, by whom it was studied and carefully preserved. The”
Donald a MacKenzie, Teutonic Myth and Legend

“Certain beliefs, and the myths which were based upon them, are older than even the civilization of the Tigro-Euphrates valley. They belong, it would appear, to a stock of common inheritance from an uncertain cultural centre of immense antiquity.”
Donald A. Mackenzie, Myths of Babylonia and Assyria

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