Segnuis Irritant by Walter William Strickland
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August 2023
Originally published 1896
Non-fiction
Author: Walter William Strickland
ePublished by
August 2023
Originally published 1896
Non-fiction
Author: Walter William Strickland
This treatise by an ex-pat British baronet, Segnuis Irritant: Eight Primitive Folk-Lore Stories, proposes in great detail and with much comparative analysis that Slavic folk-lore stories are antecedent to much of the folk-lore of humanity, and are themselves descended from ancient Arctic myths about the solar cycle created when Slavs were living in the far North. To make this argument the author uses eight Slavic tales as examples—Czech, Slovenian, and Lusatian—and describes how these stories inspired later folk-lore, and how they originated in the Arctic.
Walter William Strickland, 9th Baronet de jure (1851–1938), was an anarchist and socialist who hated and rejected the British Empire even though he was born into a privileged class of that empire. In his will he tried to leave his family fortune to Scottish anarchist Guy Aldred but the will was successfully contested.
Walter William Strickland, 9th Baronet de jure (1851–1938), was an anarchist and socialist who hated and rejected the British Empire even though he was born into a privileged class of that empire. In his will he tried to leave his family fortune to Scottish anarchist Guy Aldred but the will was successfully contested.