Lewis Spence

Lewis Spence was born in 1874 in Monifieth, Angus, Scotland. After studying at Edinburgh University he became a journalist, working as an editor at The Scotsman from 1899 to 1906, then at The Edinburgh Magazine and The British Weekly. During these years he grew interested in the myths and folklore of Mexico and Central America, and in 1908 he published a popular English version of the Popol Vuh, the sacred book of the K'iche' Maya. He went on to compile A Dictionary of Mythology and an encyclopedia of occultism and wrote many books on the myths of different peoples, including the Celts of Britain and Scotland. He was a Fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. In the 1920s he wrote several books about the legend of Atlantis, which he treated as a real lost civilization; mainstream scholars rejected his conclusions. A Scottish nationalist, he founded the Scottish National Movement and stood unsuccessfully for Parliament in 1929. He also wrote poetry, collected in 1953. He died in 1955.

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