Folklore & Mythology

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...

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...

THE BESTSELLING, WIDELY HERALDED, JUNGIAN INTRODUCTION TO THE PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATION OF A MATURE, AUTHENTIC, AND REVITALIZED MASCULINITY. "The author ta...

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

Startling, scary stories from across Canada from Vancouver Island to Newfoundland. Guaranteed to chill!Categories: Religion & Spirituality Occult & ...

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....

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...

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...

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

These twenty tales have been drawn from famous legends concerning the former lives of the Buddha. Beloved by children and adults alike, they tell of people ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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...

From The Shrouded Forests Of The Pacific Northwest To Off-the-wall Cryptozoological Conventions, One Man Searches High And Low For The Answer To The Questio...

“No one writes about the subjects of sexuality, desire, the shadow, and diabolism with such relish, and when I read her words I feel both smarter and les...

Horror Has The Gripping Ability To Captivate...and Enthrall. Audiences Love To Be Scared But Behind Every Muffled Scream Is Something Deeper And Even More F...

RADICALLY REIMAGINE THE SECOND HALF OF LIFE\“There can be a certain perverse pleasure, as well as a sense of rightness and beauty, in insisting on floweri...

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...

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...

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

Many promote Reconciliation as a new way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Res...

Welcome to the incredibly beautiful and intriguing world of the Tarot.The purpose of this book, Rebirth of the Oracle - The Tarot for the Modern World, is t...

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,...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

Dennis Tedlock presents startling new methods for transcribing, translating, and interpreting oral performance that carry wide implications for all areas ...

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...

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

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...

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

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...