unhidebound

The outlines of a story-plot among savage races are wilder and more unconfined; they are often a vast unhidebound corpse, but one that bears no distant resemblance to forms we think more reasonable only because we find it difficult to let ourselves down to the level of savage ignorance, and to lay aside the data of thought which have been won for us by the painful efforts of civilization.

The Science of Fairy Tales An Inquiry into Fairy Mythology Edwin Sidney Hartland 1887