Folklore & Mythology

This first paperback edition of the seminal work by the Swiss scholar Max Luthi will be welcomed by folklorists for its informative survey of the various ways in which fairytales and related genres (local legends and saints' lives) may be read."Luthi's...

The late-imperial legend of Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, the Butterfly Lovers--a story as central to Chinese culture as Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is to Western culture--also relates a tale of two lovers help apart by social strictures. To audiences...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781452178912Author Stephen FryFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Chronicle BooksPublisher Chronicle BooksWeight(grams) 1111gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 193mm *...

International bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke has long been inspired and fascinated by fairy tales. This wonderful anthology is Funke's personal selection of fairy tales from all around the world - not just from her native Germany but from...

Fionn Cycle: A loose collection of tales originating in Scotland, Ireland and the Isle of Man which surround hunter-warrior leader Fionn, his band of men and his poet son, Ossian. Old Grey Magician: A mystical, morally ambivalent figure who appears...

This much-anticipated study brings new level of sophistication to the study of Irish folklore and provides a source for other disciplines to negotiate the area with greater understanding.Book InformationISBN 9781859181690Author Diarmuid O' GiollanFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679748328Author A.K. RamanujanFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 454gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566565257Author Lawerence MillmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, IncWeight(grams)...

In cultures throughout human history people have believed that some part of themselves continued to exist after they died. Part of that belief is that living can influence what happens to the dead in the afterlife, and the dead can return from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780823405640Author Janet StevensFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Holiday House IncPublisher Holiday House IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 224mm *...

Witches, Ghosts, and Signs: Folklore of the Southern Appalachians by the renowned West Virginia folklorist and former West Virginia University English professor Patrick W. Gainer not only highlights stories that both amuse and raise goosebumps, but also...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781524797997Author Aaron MahnkeFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Del Rey BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 556gDimensions(mm) 242mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143105367Author Angela CarterFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 96gDimensions(mm) 196mm *...

Chinese mythology has been passed down in written and oral form over many millennia, emerging from a range of cultural traditions that often have their origins in Daoism and Buddhist religion. At times merging history and folklore, Chinese myths are rich...

The vampire is one of the nineteenth century's most powerful surviving archetypes, owing largely to Bela Lugosi's portrayal of Dracula, the Bram Stoker creation. Yet the figure of the vampire has undergone many transformations in recent years, thanks to...

Welcome to a very different Lake Erie—where ghost ships sail silently, a Black Dog brings doom to sailors who see it, and sea monsters swirl in the murky depths above a UFO base. In Folklore of Lake Erie, Judith S. Neulander presents these captivating...

Anything is possible in the world of Latin American folklore: Aunt Misery traps Death in a pear tree; Lucia Zenteno carries away a river in her hair; shapeshifting Amazonian dolphins lure young girls to their underwater city; the Feathered Snake brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832571Author George Bird GrinnellFormat PaperbackPage Count 143Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend PublishingWeight(grams) 195g

The Baganda people of Uganda enjoy an extraordinarily rich oral tradition, which serves as a window into their cultural milieu, history, and experiences as a people. This comprehensive, multi-genre work is both a study of the Baganda people's oral...

Brings together fourteen essays that examine the range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Topics covered include the twentieth-century fantasy fiction of Evangeline Walton, the Welsh presence in the films of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781506486321Author Esther J. HamoriFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of the...

Few surviving Celtic myths bear any resemblance to their originals. In the course of time they have been infused with romance, pseudohistory and Christian theory. Stories of Ireland and Wales have been combined with tales of love, war and slaughterdeeds...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856307257Author Dennis Patrick SlatteryFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 344g

Decades of war, social upheaval and political change have not lessened the enduring interest of the people of East Timor (Timor-Leste) in their oral traditions, something they share with their neighbors in the eastern islands of Indonesia. Although oral...

The 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856306038Author Wilhelm BleekFormat HardbackPage Count 468Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 1417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783856305826Author Harry WilmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint Daimon VerlagPublisher Daimon VerlagWeight(grams) 258g

Renowned storyteller Ray Hicks was a certified national treasure. He received many prestigious honors in his lifetime, including the National Heritage Fellowship Award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Best known for his traditional storytelling...

The early plans for Mount Rushmore called for blasting heroic likenesses of mountain men--Kit Carson, Jim Bridger, and John Colter-—into the solid mountain granite of South Dakota. Readers of this colorful volume will see the heroics and the brutally...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874219982Author Jennifer Eastman AtteberyFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874218992Author Trevor J. BlankFormat PaperbackPage Count 237Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 388g

A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak was one of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780870498909Author Katharine YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint University of Tennessee PressPublisher University of Tennessee PressWeight(grams)...

Lies To Live By brings together two selections of stories by Ojibwe storyteller Lois Beardslee. It is a series of interdependent tales, reflects the storyteller’s role in interpreting traditional stories for contemporary audiences, while preserving...

How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South * A Choice Outstanding Academic Title "From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in...

A collection of stories drawn from numerous folktales of Ohio.Book InformationISBN 9780472065585Author Michael Jay KatzFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan PressWeight(grams) 430g

Spanning more than 100 years of Swedish American local history in the Midwest and the West, Jennifer Eastman Attebery’s thorough examination of nearly 300 historical legends explores how Swedish Americans employ these narratives in creating, debating,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780299343408Author Andrew PeckFormat HardbackPage Count 266Imprint University of Wisconsin PressPublisher University of Wisconsin Press

A deeply humanistic ethnography of prison workers and their dark humor America is fascinated by prisons and prison culture, but few Americans understand what it is like to work in corrections. Claire Schmidt, whose extended family includes three...