Folklore & Mythology

the Author Of Hero With A Thousand Faces, The Masks Of God Series, And The Power Of Myth Here Turns His Powers Of Observation And Analysis On His Own Life...

The Mysteries Of Mithras Presents A Revival Of The Magical Practices And Initiatory System Of Mithraism, The Ancient Roman Mystery Religion That Was Immense...

Clever Tom Fitzpatrick thinks his fortune is made when he captures a leprechaun and forces him to reveal the hiding place of his gold, but the leprechaun is...

Canada’s best-known storyteller, Dan Yashinsky, lives his life as teller and listener, and shows how storytelling can and does create vital connections be...

The only complete world mythology textbook available, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, Second Edition, int...

The Fundamentals of Drawing is a classic drawing manual covering a wide range of subject matter, suitable for artists of all levels. Opportunities for pract...

Addresses the conflict between scientific theory about the world and the ancestral worldview of Native Americans. Publishers Weekly Though Deloria (Custer...

Conversations Between Joseph Campbell And Bill Moyers, A Television Journalist, Discussing Mythology And Our Ties To The Past. Myth And The Modern World -- ...

Tom, A Young Chimney Sweep, Toils Under The Misery Of His Horrendous Job And Cruel Boss, Grimes, Until Fairies Turn Him Into A Water-baby - An Underwater Sp...

Ghost-lore collector Barbara Smith has assembled a second volume of fascinating tales of the unexplained from Ontario: the spirit of an angry boy trapped on...

pull Up A Chair Or Gather Round The Campfire And Get Ready For Thirty Creepy Tales Of Ghostly Hauntings, Eerie Happenings, And Other Strange Occurrences ...

Jean Markale ; Translated By A. Mygind, C. Hauch, And P. Henry. Translation Of: La Femme Celte. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 287-304.Categories: Religio...

Three monks, Hok, Lok, and Siew, journey along a mountain road trying to understand what makes one happy. At once the monks encounter frightened villagers w...

Integrating original texts with explanations, interpretations, and theory, Introduction to Mythology: Contemporary Approaches to Classical and World Myths, ...

With insight, humor and fascinating detail, Lacey brings brilliantly to life the stories that made England—from Ethelred the Unready to Richard the Lionhe...

In vivid detail he describes his years of intermittent schooling, his entry into life in the fishing industry at the age of ten, his marriage, at thirteen, ...

a Fascinating And Accessible Guide To The Gods And Goddesses, Heroes And Heroines, Magical Weapons, Fabulous Beasts, And Otherworld Entities Of Celtic Myt...

The entry for kvetchn (the verbal form) in Uriel Weinreich's Modern English-Yiddish Yiddish-English Dictionary reads simply: press, squeeze, pinch; strain...

Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet,...

Boldly illustrated and superbly translated, Folk Legends from Tono captures the spirit of Japanese peasant culture undergoing rapid transformation into the ...

This Book Assembles For The First Time Fairy Tales In Which Elders Are Protagonists. The Stories Are Delightful In Them Selves, But Interpreted Under Chinen...

About the Author\Harold R. Johnson (1954–2022) was the author of six works of fiction and six works of nonfiction, including Firewater: How Alcohol is Kil...

The elusive image of the Holy Grail has haunted the Western imagination for eight centuries. It represents the ideal of an unattainable yet infinitely desi...

Little Red Riding Hood (1697) / Charles Perrault -- Little Red Riding Hood (1729) / Robert Samber -- The Story Of Little Red Riding Hood (1796) / Anonymous ...

Magic for Managing All Kinds of Curses Anyone can be the target of a psychic attack, whether it's an intentional hex or an incidental crossing. This book ...

Can the stories of sea dragons be true? The Bible describes a frightening, huge creature that lived in the sea. Called Leviathan, it had fearsome teeth a...

Anthropological and psychological analysis by Radin Kereny and Jung of the voraciously uninhibited episodes of the Winnebego Trickster cycle. ...

Connect with the Boundless Energy and Life-Changing Magick of Dragons Discover how to work magick with the mighty dragon clans in this powerful book from b...

Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hinduism thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its symboli...

A survey of the past 300 years of theorizing on myth, this book takes into account the work of such prominent thinkers as Albert Camus, Claude Lévi-Strau...

Carl Jung coined the term “synchronicity” to describe meaningful coincidences that conventional notions of time and causality cannot explain. Working with...

Michelle Sanderson may appear to be a strong, independent woman, but on the inside, she's still the wounded girl who fled home years ago. A young army vet,...

The Complete Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm Perhaps no other stories possess as much power to enchant, delight, and surprise as those penned by the imm...

turning Away From The Privileged World Of The "eminent Victorians," Gertrude Bell (1868—1926) Explored, Mapped, And Excavated The World Of The Arabs. Recrui...

This Volume Is Designed As A Companion To The Standard Undergraduate Mythology Textbooks Or, When Assigned Alongside The Central Greek And Roman Works, As A...

Great book!Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesFolklore & Mythology

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

Book by Fowke, Edith (collect and ed)Categories: Literature & Fiction History & Criticism Genres & StylesFairy Tales, Folk Tales, Legends & ...

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...

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

Spellbinding adventure from Canada's most beloved modern-day explorer. Traverspine is not a place you will find on most maps. A century ago, it stood near t...

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...

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

This is a fascinating 2008 study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls...

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...

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...

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

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...