Folklore & Mythology

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

The spectacular and varied landscape of Dorset, with its giants, hill forts, Jurassic coast and ancient buildings is the source and inspiration for many curious stories that have been passed down in families and village communities for generations. This...

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

"All myths and sagas and legends are like a shimmering veil of many colours, stirred now and then by the wind of our desires, but still hiding from most of us that Council of the Wise seated at the Round Table of the Stars... But between us and them lies...

Step away from sunny Jersey's present day and into the sinister shadows of the past ... the island's history is filled with dark deeds and restless spirits. Collected here for the first time are stories that have endured through centuries to chill the...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912634729Author John ReppionFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint Liminal 11Publisher Liminal 11

"[Veyne's] present book has some kinship with his sprightly theoretical work Comment on ecrit l'histoire; and he declares that its aim was to provoke reflection on the way our conception of truth is built up and changes over the centuries. . . . The...

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...

There is something about a shapeshifter - a person who can transform into an animal - that captures our imagination; that causes us to want to howl at the moon, or flit through the night like a bat. Werewolves, vampires, demons, and other weird creatures...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486420103Author Alexander PorteousFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint 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 9781467137423Author Marita Woywod CrandleFormat PaperbackImprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia PublishingWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 226mm * 152mm...

Tricksters and animals play an important role in West African folklore with stories that entertain but serve a moral purpose. Traditions and local tales revel in the antics of these characters: from Nigeria to Benin, from the cunning spider god Anansi to...

Tales throughout the world generally place fabulous beasts in marginal locations - deserts, deep woods, remote islands, glaciers, ocean depths, mountain peaks, caves, swamps, heavenly bodies and alternate universes. Legends tell us that imaginary...

Journey through Lancashire, England, to visit 155 places where strange history meets creepy modern times. Arranged alphabetically by town and place, the stories tell of ghosts, witches, fairies, dragons, and altercations with the Devil (who is not as...

Whether hailing from the open Yorkshire Dales or the close-knit neighbourhoods of its towns and cities, North Yorkshire folk have always been fond of a good tale. This collection of stories from around the county is a tribute to their narrative vitality,...

Epic poems by one who has been called the first Greek philosopher and theologian.About the AuthorRichmond Lattimore (1906-1984) was a poet, translator, and longtime professor of Greek at Bryn Mawr College.ReviewsRichmond Lattimore is a fine translator of...

The first comprehensive edition and translation of Old English writings on health and healing in more than 150 years.Unlike elsewhere in Europe, vernacular writings on health and healing had a major place in early medieval England. These texts-unique...

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.In spring 2020, Julia Blackburn...

Every culture has monsters that eat us, and every culture repels in horror when we eat ourselves. From Grendel to Sawney Bean, and from the Ghuls of ancient Persia to The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, our fear of being consumed is both universal and...

The Labyrinth is filled with beautiful portraits of mighty creatures from the world of myths and legends, just waiting to be brought back to life in glorious colour. From colouring the wondrous wings of a harpy, to the glistening snakes of gorgon's...

Eighty percent of Americans have no British ancestors. According to David Hackett Fischer, however, their day-to-day lives are profoundly influenced by folkways transplanted from Britain to the New World with the first settlers. Residual, yet persistent,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992843014Author Doreen ValienteFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Centre for Pagan Studies LtdPublisher Centre for Pagan Studies LtdWeight(grams) 141g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781960644046Author Joshua CutchinFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Educated Dragon PublishingPublisher Educated Dragon PublishingWeight(grams)...

This title deals with the myths and legends of the ancient worlds, from Greece, Rome and Egypt to the Norse and Celtic lands, through Persia and India to China and the Far East. It is a comprehensive A to Z of the classic stories of gods and goddesses,...

The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages,...

Discover the beguiling history of witchcraft, magic, and superstition through the centuries in this stunningly illustrated title. A History of Magic, Witchcraft and the Occult charts the extraordinary narrative of one of the most interesting and often...

A gripping and groundbreaking history of how ancient cultures developed and used biological, chemical, and other unconventional weapons of warFlamethrowers, poison gases, incendiary bombs, the large-scale spreading of disease: are these terrifying agents...

From the New York Times bestselling authors of GLORY, Kahran and Regis Bethencourt of CreativeSoul Photography, comes CROWNED, a collection that completely reimagines how we see our favourite and most beloved childhood fairy and folk tales. Filled with...

Japanese gods, too numerous to count, are known collectively as yaoyorozu-no-kamigami--the eight million. They are the cast of a vast, complex mythology that encompasses two religions, three cultures, and three millennia, one whose ancient deities are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780953663132Author Nicholas R. MannFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Green Magic PublishingPublisher Green Magic PublishingWeight(grams)...

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans. Here are the...

Around the world, people looked to the skies to tell them when to sow and harvest their crops, and when the rains would come. The 'sailing stars' have guided explorers and endless migrations of people. In Old Europe, among the Ainu of Japan and in...

More than 100,000 copies sold in France A fascinating new journey through Greek mythology that explains the myths' timeless lessons and meaning Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to...

'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or...

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...

No matter how savvy the reader is, they are sure to find stories they believed to be true in this collection. Professor Jan Harold Brunvand is the authority on urban legends and Too Good to Be True is his most complete anthology. Whether the reader wants...