Parallels to all aspects of the Old Testament, compiled by the founder of modern comparative religion. Myths, stories, and priestly speculations resembling Genesis' stories of the Creation, the Fall, the mark of Cain, the Flood, and the tower of Babel; covenants by oath, ultimogeniture (as instanced by Isaac, Jacob, Joseph and David) from England to Indo-China, rebirths in animal skins and the inheritance of Jacob, sacred stones and cairns, divination by dreams and cups, weeping as greeting (like Jacob and Rachel), wrestlings with water-spirits; exposure and preservation of national heroes, magic in hair and in bundles, witchcraft, forbidden censuses, holy doorkeepers, sacred trees and high places, silence of widows. The history of the Law; the earlier ritual Decalogue of Exodus 34; kids seethed in mother's milk and sympathetic magic; cutting for the dead; goring oxen and deodands; bells and bell magic. Single volume edition, prepared by the author.