Hartland. The Science of Fairy Tales

Today's free book is The Science of Fairy Tales: An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology by Edwin Sidney Hartland. For the table of contents, check at the bottom of this post below the image; the links below are to the Sacred Texts edition.

The book is available at Sacred Texts, Project Gutenberg, Internet Archive, Hathi Trust, and Google Books. You can get a free Kindle ebook from Amazon too!

Title Page
Authors Preface
Chapter I: The Art of Story-Telling
Chapter II: Savage Ideas
Chapter III: Fairy Births and Human Midwives
Chapter IV: Fairy Births and Human Midwives (continued)
Chapter V: Changelings
Chapter VI: Robberies from Fairyland
Chapter VII: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland
Chapter VIII: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd
Chapter IX: The Supernatural Lapse of Time in Fairyland contd.
Chapter X: Swan Maidens
Chapter XI: Swan Maidens contd.
Chapter XII: Conclusion
Appendix