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The Origins of the Mithraic Mysteries: Cosmology and Salvation in the Ancient World by David Ulansey 9780195067880
£16.66David Ulansey's book breaks new scholastic ground by arguing that the Roman cult of Mithras did not originate in Persia, as previously thought. Instead, Ulansey suggests, the cult was triggered by the reaction of a group of Tarsian intellectuals to the... -
Foxfire, Wolfskin: and Other Stories of Shapeshifting Women by Sharon Blackie 9781910463680
£15.41Drawing on myth and fairy tales found across Europe - from Croatia to Sweden, Ireland to Russia - Sharon Blackie brings to life women's remarkable ability to transform themselves in the face of seemingly impossible circumstances. These stories are about... -
Pocket Scottish Tales: 25 classics to delight and entertain by Tony Potter
RRP: £6.99£5.71This compelling collection of the best-known and most exciting Scottish myths and legends is filled with magic and mystery. Stories include 'Angus and Bride', 'The Nimble Tailor', 'The Lonely Giant', 'King David and the Stag', 'Robert the... -
The Wisdom of the Serpent: The Myths of Death, Rebirth, and Resurrection. by Joseph Lewis Henderson
RRP: £42.00£40.41The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and... -
Beyond the North Wind: The Fall and Rise of the Mystic North by Christopher McIntosh 9781578636402
RRP: £15.99£13.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578636402Author Christopher McIntoshFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Red Wheel/WeiserPublisher Red Wheel/WeiserWeight(grams) 1g -
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows, and Scorpion Bombs: Unconventional Warfare in the Ancient World by Adrienne Mayor 9780691211084
RRP: £16.99£13.34A 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... -
Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World by Munya Andrews
RRP: £19.95£12.84Around 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... -
The Tablet of Destinies by Roberto Calasso
RRP: £20.00£17.62A beguiling new reimagining of one of the most ancient and mysterious origin myths of human civilization'The Flood didn't come suddenly as a big surprise. It came at the end of a long, tormented story. Men just went on multiplying and the noise they made... -
Anansi and the Box of Stories: A West African Folktale by Dr Stephen Krensky 9780822567455
RRP: £6.99£4.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822567455Author Dr Stephen KrenskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Lerner Publications Co ,U.S.Publisher Lerner Publications Co ,U.S.Weight(grams)... -
Celtic Myth and Religion: A Study of Traditional Belief, with Newly Translated Prayers, Poems and Songs by Sharon Paice MacLeod 9780786464760
RRP: £17.99£14.87This book provides a comprehensive overview of Celtic mythology and religion, encompassing numerous aspects of ritual and belief. Topics include the presence of the Celtic Otherworld and its inhabitants, cosmology and sacred cycles, wisdom texts,... -
Middle Eastern Mythology by S. H. Hooke 9780486435510
RRP: £9.99£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486435510Author S. HookeFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm)... -
Scottish Urban Myths and Ancient Legends by Grace Banks
RRP: £9.99£7.33Monsters, lunatics, vampires, werewolves and evil dolls, stones entombing bodies, faces appearing in walls, curses and meetings with the Devil - all this and more are contained within this book of myths and ancient legends. Well-known storytellers Grace... -
The Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural Performance by David M. Guss
RRP: £27.00£20.63If, as David Guss argues, culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds, where people come to fight and dispute in large acts of public display. Festive behavior, long seen by anthropologists and... -
Ozark Folk Magic: Plants, Prayers and Healing by Brandon Weston
RRP: £17.99£16.74Bring ancient methods of healing and magic into the modern world with this impressive book on Ozark folk magic. Providing lore, herbs, magical alignments, verbal charms, and more, folk healer Brandon Weston sheds light on the region s secretive culture... -
Celtic Cosmology and the Otherworld: Mythic Origins, Sovereignty and Liminality by Sharon Paice MacLeod 9781476669076
RRP: £21.99£17.97The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain have preserved tantalizing clues pertaining to the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures. In this unique collection of new studies and translations, ancient source materials and... -
Legends, Charms and Superstitions of Ireland by Wilde 9780486447339
RRP: £12.49£7.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486447339Author Lady WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 440gDimensions(mm)... -
The Clever Sheikh of the Butana: Sudanese Folk Tales by Ali Lutfi Abdallah 9781566563123
RRP: £13.99£8.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563123Author Ali Lutfi AbdallahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc -
Surrey Folk Tales by Janet Dowling 9780752466354
RRP: £9.99£7.33Surrey's landscape, shaped by the Devil's mischief and the whims of dancing Pharisees, is home to a wealth of tales. For Surrey is a place where dragons have stalked, dripping poisoned saliva from their yellow teeth; a place where horses have sprouted... -
Tales From the Fens by W H (Walter Henry) 1891-1 Barrett 9781014920577
RRP: £20.95£18.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014920577Author W H (Walter Henry) 1891-1 BarrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams)... -
Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination by Candace Slater 9780226761848
RRP: £32.00£31.51In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are encantados, or Enchanted Beings, capable of... -
Weather Lore: Weather in General: A Collection of Proverbs, Sayings & Rules Concerning the Weather by Richard Inwards 9781906506599
RRP: £7.99£6.00The state of the weather is almost the first topic of conversation when people meet, which is not surprising when it is a matter of such importance to our well being, health, prosperity, and even to life itself. Accurate weather predictions have always... -
Conamara Chronicles: Tales from Iorras Aithneach by Sean Mac Giollarnath 9780253063526
RRP: £25.99£22.04"I find him to be a kindred spirit, a sympathetic but shrewd enquirer, a companionable stroller, and a lover of anecdotes gathered by the wayside." So Tim Robinson described folklorist, revolutionary, and district justice Sean Mac Giollarnath, whose... -
Folk Tales of the Maldives by Xavier Romero-Frias 9788776941055
RRP: £24.95£20.26The Maldives are mainly known as an equatorial tourist paradise to the south of India but some will know the archipelago risks drowning owing to global warming. Far less is known about the people, who have occupied these islands for millennia but whose... -
African Myths and Folk Tales by Carter Godwin Woodson 9780486477343
RRP: £8.49£6.58Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486477343Author Carter Godwin WoodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dover Children'sPublisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)... -
Other People's Myths: The Cave of Echoes by Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty
RRP: £24.00£23.03Other People's Myths celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the modern mythologies of Woody Allen and soap operas, Wendy Doniger... -
Spider Speculations: A Physics and Biophysics of Storytelling by Jo Carson
£23.18Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781559362832Author Jo CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S... -
Travels to the Otherworld and Other Fantastic Realms: Medieval Journeys into the Beyond by Claude Lecouteux
RRP: £25.00£15.84A collection of tales from the Middle Ages that reveal voyages to Heaven and Hell, the realm of the Faery, mystical lands, and encounters with mythic beasts * Shares travelers' accounts of voyages into the afterlife, alarming creatures of unparalleled... -
English Myths by Michael Kerrigan
RRP: £19.99£14.43The mythology and folklore of England is as old as the land itself, rich in symbolism and full of tales of quests and heroic daring-do, ghosts and witches, romantic heroines and noble outlaws. Who hasn't heard of the master sorcerer Merlin, Robin Hood... -
Meanings of Antiquity: Myth Interpretation in Premodern Japan by Matthieu Felt 9780674293786
RRP: £54.95£42.87Meanings of Antiquity is the first dedicated study of how the oldest Japanese myths, recorded in the eighth-century texts Kojiki and Nihon shoki, changed in meaning and significance between 800 and 1800 CE. Generations of Japanese scholars and students... -
Intoxication in Mythology by Ernest L. Abel 9780786424771
RRP: £14.99£13.03Myths from the ancient world usually have some supernatural element, a component often generated from a particular intoxicant. These substances promoted a variety of states, including possession by the gods, liberation of the soul or a communion with the... -
Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor 9780812691924
RRP: £34.99£23.42"Sociologist Victor began his involvement with satanic-cult phenomena by investigating a local panic centered in southwestern New York state. After an introductory section, his book begins with a description of this research, then proceeds with an... -
Middle Kingdom: Faerie World of Ireland by Diarmuid A. McManus
£9.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900675829Author Diarmuid A. McManusFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Colin Smythe LtdPublisher Colin Smythe Ltd -
THE Journal of Cryptozoology: Volume One by Karl P.N Shuker 9781905723997
£7.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781905723997Author Karl P.N ShukerFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint CFZ PressPublisher CFZ PressWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 3mm -
We Are All Survivors: Verbal, Ritual, and Material Ways of Narrating Disaster and Recovery by Carl Lindahl 9780253063762
RRP: £21.99£18.79What is the role of folklore in the discussion of catastrophe and trauma? How do disaster survivors use language, ritual, and the material world to articulate their experiences? What insights and tools can the field of folkloristics offer survivors for... -
Down the Road and Round the Bend by Roy Noble 9781912050178
RRP: £8.99£6.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912050178Author Roy NobleFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Graffeg LimitedPublisher Graffeg Limited -
The Little Encyclopedia of Mythical Horses: An A-to-Z Guide to Legendary Steeds by Eliza Berkowitz 9780762484898
RRP: £14.99£9.80From Arthurian legend to tales of ancient China, horses have traversed the world alongside humans for centuries, and their heroic adventures are gathered here in this one-of-a-kind little encyclopedia . . . Beloved for their grace, strength, and untamed... -
Herefordshire Folk Tales by David Phelps 9780750982641
RRP: £12.99£9.37For the first time, these enchanting folk tales, the origins of which lie in the oral tradition, have been gathered together in book form. The charming selection of thirty fairy tales and legends are full of Herefordian wit and wisdom, and are perfect... -
The King and the Corpse: Tales of the Soul's Conquest of Evil by Heinrich Robert Zimmer 9780691017761
RRP: £40.00£32.63Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil. Beginning with a tale from the Arabian Nights, this... -
Be Afraid, Be Very Afraid: The Book of Scary Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand 9780393326130
RRP: £12.99£10.37Urban legends are those strange, but seemingly credible tales that always happen to a friend of a friend. For the first time, Professor Jan Harold Brunvand, "who has achieved almost legendary status" (Choice), has collected the creepiest, most terrifying... -
Nottinghamshire Folk Tales by Pete Castle
RRP: £9.99£7.33Passed down from generation to generation, many of Nottinghamshire's most popular folk tales are gathered here together for the first time. In the popular imagination, Nottinghamshire means Sherwood Forest, outlaws, wicked sheriffs, wild beasts and Robin...