Folklore & Mythology

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind A Times Book of the Year * A Daily...

Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781591811725Author Laura SimmsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Sentient PublicationsPublisher Sentient PublicationsWeight(grams) 320g

In this engrossing book, Paul Barber surveys centuries of folklore about vampires and offers the first scientific explanation for the origins of the vampire legends. From the tale of a sixteenth-century shoemaker from Breslau whose ghost terrorized...

Words have always held great power in the Gaelic traditions of the Scottish Highlands: bardic poems bought immortality for their subjects; satires threatened to ruin reputations and cause physical injury; clan sagas recounted family origins and struggles...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608688517Author Joseph CampbellFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World LibraryWeight(grams) 476gDimensions(mm) 218mm *...

More extraordinary but true stories from London's history. In this fascinating follow-up to his bestselling London's Strangest Tales, Tom Quinn makes a further foray into the weirder side of the capital, bringing us a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578637928Author David ShiFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

Now, in The Ascension Mysteries, David Wilcock reveals that the earth is on the front lines of a battle that has been raging between positive and negative extraterrestrials for 500,000 years and he looks ahead to what this battle means. Follow his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781464216633Author John O'ConnorFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint SourcebooksPublisher SourcebooksWeight(grams) 517gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 161mm * 23mm

Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross and listen to the tales of this ancient county. Hear how a King and his knights were turned to stone at the mysterious Rollright Stones; how Dragon Hill got its name; take the Devil's Highway to the End of the World -...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944751340Author Gail CarrigerFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Gail Carriger LLCPublisher Gail Carriger LLCWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Journey through the imagined islands of history. Gathered in this book are over twenty islands that have decidedly human origins, whether they are the products of imagination, deception or simply human error. They are phantoms, fakes and legends: an...

Featuring more than 100 spells for mojo bags, poppets, talismans, jars, and other enchanted containers, this is the spell book you've always wanted. Charity L. Bedell presents original workings rooted in Conjure and Hoodoo, European folk magic, and...

Enter the world of faery and discover the amazing possibilities that come from living and working with the Good Folk. This remarkable book is both a folkloric resource and guide to residing near our magical neighbours. Faery dives deep into the rich...

A sumptuous treasury of original fairytales from the brothers Grimm, introduced by award-winning author Cornelia Funke and with full colour illustrations by artists Quentin Blake, Raymond Briggs, Axel Scheffler, Oliver Jeffers, Helen Oxenbury and Emma...

This is the extraordinary book that initiated the Harmonic Convergence in August 1987 and awakened the world to the Mayan Calendar. In it, Jose Arguelles revealed three revolutionary ideas: that a great moment of human transformation awaited us as we...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780399176241Author Linda S. GodfreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Perigee Books,U.S.Publisher Penguin Putnam Inc

Based on a corpus of Texan oral narratives collected by the author over the past fifteen years, this study presents an analysis of the literary qualities or orally performed verbal art, focusing on the significance of its social context. Although the...

This collection brings together all of W. B. Yeats's published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs. Through his researches...

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most diverse counties are vividly retold by writer, storyteller and poet Jennie Bailey and storyteller, writer, psychotherapist and shamanic guide David England. Take a fantasy journey around...

From the author of the hugely successful book Legendary Ireland, The Turning of the Year explores the Celtic division of the year, from Samhain to Imbolc, to Bealtaine, to Lunasa, back to Samhain. It examines the significance of particular times of the...

Explains the effects of fragrance, identifies useful flowers, spices, herbs, and oils, and suggests their magical properties.Book InformationISBN 9780875421292Author Scott CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S...

The Mysteries of Mithraspresents a revival of the magical practices and initiatory system of Mithraism, the ancient Roman mystery religion that was immensely popular in the Roman Legions from the late second century B.C. until A.D. 400 and was taken to...

The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to "see visions," C. Kerenyi examines the...

"The Arabian Nights" has become a synonym for the fabulous and the exotic. Every child is familiar with the stories of Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor and Ali Baba. Yet very few people, even specialists in oriential literature, have a clear idea of when the...

Whether fashionable or unfashionable, which of us don't use proverbs all the time? They are an indispensable vehicle of popular wisdom and a lively contributor to educated speech. Proverbs are forever evolving. This gathering of Italian proverbs is...

We see the Green Man half-hidden on the walls of many of our old churches, a face surrounded by leaves. This beautifully illustrated and well-researched Pitkin Guide looks at this fascinating creature, its history, and where to find him. Look out for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486414416Author Marie-Louise SjoestedtFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648299646Author Gwendolyn TauntonFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 318g

Steinbeck's first posthumously published work, The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is a reinterpretation of tales from Malory's Morte d'Arthur. In this highly successful attempt to render Malory into Modern English, Steinbeck recreated the...

A profound meditation on climate change and the Anthropocene and an urgent search for the fossils-industrial, chemical, geological-that humans are leaving behind A Times Book of the Year * A Daily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608681662Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint New World LibraryPublisher New World Library

There are fewer grey seals in the world than endangered African elephants, but the British Isles host almost half of this global population. Every year these charismatic animals, with their expressive eyes and whiskers more sensitive than...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Anisfield-Wolf Book Award 1978 and National Book Critics Circle Awards 1976.Book InformationISBN 9780679721888Author Maxine Hong KingstonFormat PaperbackPage...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976290759Author Robin LimFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Robin HemmerlePublisher Robin HemmerleWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 11mm

Hailed as "a feast" (Washington Post) and "a modern-day bestiary" (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma's On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters--how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and...

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland--outlining along the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world...

In this book Hasan M. El-Shamy has gathered the first authentic new collection of modern Egyptian folk narratives to appear in nearly a century. El-Shamy's English translations of these orally presented stories not only preserve their spirit, but give...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646432615Author Tim RaybornFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Cider Mill PressPublisher Cider Mill PressWeight(grams) 146g