Folklore & Mythology

An Exploration Of The Arctic Sky--its Constellations, Legends And Mythology, The Sun, Moon, Planets, And 'shooting Stars, ' As Well As Atmospheric Phenomena...

Review\Highway’s determinedly positive view of his early life … carries over to this series of lectures. … He is a storyteller who has gathered many s...

A Compendium Of Two Hundred Yiddish Folktales, Collected During The 1920s And 1930s From People Of All Walks Of Life In The Small Towns And Villages Of East...

A traditional northwest coast legend for ages six to adult, told simply and gently be one of BC's best-loved writers.". . . should be added to any collectio...

Oversized and lavishly illustrated, this definitive volume of Greek mythology introduces readers to all the major and lesser gods and goddesses as well as t...

A Chinese American woman tells of the Chinese myths, family stories and events of her California childhood that have shaped her identity. ...

Manitous lived in human form among the Ojibway in the early days, after Kitchi-Manitou (the Great Mystery) created all things and Muzzu-Kummik-Quae (Mother ...

The Haida World Is A Misty Archipelago A Hundred Stormy Miles Off The Coasts Of British Columbia And Alaska. For A Thousand Years And More Before The Europe...

Pre-christian European & Mediterranean Religions. Where Do Myths Come From? What Is Their Function And What Do They Mean? In This Very Short Introductio...

From one of today’s foremost scholars, a lively retelling of the timeless tales… Here are the myths that have influenced so much of our cultural herit...

The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek...

Winner Of The 2003 Trillium Book Award Stories Are Wondrous Things, Award-winning Author And Scholar Thomas King Declares In His 2003 Cbc Massey Lectures. A...

The story of Atlas and Heracles.Atlas knows how it feels to carry the weight of the world; but why, he asks himself, does it have to be carried at all? In W...

This multi Award-Winning book was specifically designed to unlock children's imagination, creativity and awareness. This is magically done through each lavi...

Cunningham’s classic introduction to Wicca is about how to live life magically, spiritually, and wholly attuned with nature. It is a book of sense and co...

Belle rescues her father from the Beast and learns to love him, in spite of the jealousy of her rejected suitor, GastonCategories: Politics & Social Sci...

Cuneiform records made some three thousand years ago are the basis for this essay on the ideas of death and the afterlife and the story of the flood which w...

In this beautiful book, renowned Celtic authority and gifted storyteller Mara Freeman shares the richness of the Celts -- the festivals, gods and goddesses...

A Collection Of Twenty-one Folk And Fairy Tales From Around The World Featuring Clever Heroines.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesFo...

A preeminent medievalist presents a wonderful catalog of real and fanciful beasts, including the manticore, griffin, phoenix, amphivius, jaculus, and many o...

Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the...

Enjoy this collection of Ontario's paranormal history by best-selling Ghost Stories author Barbara Smith. You'll find tales from Timmons, Prescott, Gananoqu...

Hard cover, pages are clean free of tears, marks, folds and highlighting. small puncture on the back cover. See all pics.Categories: Politics & Social S...

Between The Great Rivers Tigris And Euphrates Lies The Rich Alluvial Land Of Mesopotamia (now In Modern Iraq), Which Supported A Complex And Prosperous Soci...

The Author's Premise Is That Within Every Woman There Lives A Powerful Force, Filled With Good Instincts, Passionate Creativity, And Ageless Knowing. She Is...

A modern adaptation of this favorite Jewish folktale describes how the blanket grandfather had made for young Joseph is transformed over the years into a ja...

Who was the real Nicholas Flamel? How did the Sorcerer’s Stone get its power? Did J. K. Rowling dream up the terrifying basilisk, the seductive veela, or...

Book by Fowke, Edith (collect and ed)Categories: Politics & Social SciencesSociology

very good condition, Light tanning to fore edge.Categories: Religion & Spirituality Religious StudiesSociology

Stop cracking your knuckles or you'll get arthritis. Don't cross your eyes or they'll stay stuck like that. With entertaining, kid-friendly insights on ever...

This book retells Greek myths for young people.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesFolklore & Mythology

Orca's Song is the tale of the love between Orca and Eagle-Flies-High, and explains the origin of the killer whale's song and exuberant dance.Categories: P...

In The Beginning : Etiological Tales -- I Raised Hell While I Was There : Tales Of Heaven And Hell -- Dese Bones Gon' Rise Again : Ghost Tales -- Somebody C...

By Bronislaw Malinowski ; Preface By Sir James G. Fraser. Originally Published: London : Routledge ; New York : Dutton, 1922. Includes Index.Categories: Pol...

"Belcher’s volume contains a much needed and extremely well-integrated overview and discussion of a vast inter-related West African culture complex that ...

Beliefs in mysterious underworlds are as old as humanity. But the idea that the earth has a hollow interior was first proposed as a scientific theory in 169...

A Collection Of African-american Folklore, Oral Histories, Sermons, And Songs, Dating Back To The Time Of Slavery. John And The Frog -- Witness Of The Johns...

A five-hundred-year-old legend. An ancient curse. A stunning medical mystery. And a pioneering journey into the unknown heart of the world's densest jungle....

Containing 40 Stories In New Translations By Tatar This Celebration Of The Richness And Dramatic Power Of The Legendary Fables Also Features 150 Illustratio...

Body, Boots, and Britches: Folktales, Ballads, and Speech from Country New York (York State Book)Categories: Literature & Fiction United StatesAnthologi...

In Homer’s account in The Odyssey, Penelope--wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy--is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife,...

A Single-volume Resource To Ancient Greece, This Geneological Map Of The Universe Of Greek Myth Has A Unique Accordion-paged Design That Can Be Perused Sect...

From The Publisher: This Extraordinary Best-seller Is A Brilliant Evocation Of The Noted Scholar's Teachings On Mythology. Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers O...

Cape Cod has a rich tradition of local lore, stretching back to a time before the Pilgrims arrived. Ancient Wampanoag legends like Granny Squannit and Princ...

“No denunciation without its proper instrument of close analysis,” Roland Barthes wrote in his preface to Mythologies. There is no more proper instrume...

Richard Dawkins, bestselling author and the world’s most celebrated evolutionary biologist, has spent his career elucidating the many wonders of science. ...

for Centuries, People Across The World Have Had A Fascination With Monsters And Strange Creatures. They Marvel At The Tales And Legends Of The Bigfoot Of Th...