Folklore & Mythology

The Papago Indians of the American Southwest say butterflies were created to gladden the hearts of children and chase away thoughts of aging and death. How the Butterflies Came to Be is one of twenty-four Native American tales included in Native American...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452295322Author Brian CroninFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 227gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 135mm * 15mm

These are stories of courage, love, betrayal, greed, stupidity, magic and miracles. Leprechaun gold has always been a great draw fo people with hardly any money, but, of course, the humans are taken for fools and the leprechauns win the day - every time!...

This new edition of William Doty's critically acclaimed study provides a comprehensive guidebook to the many schools of interpretation in this burgeoning field. William Doty's popular text has been hailed as the most comprehensive work of its kind...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874835304Author Doug LipmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint August House PublishersPublisher August House PublishersWeight(grams) 213gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375714467Author Gustav SchwabFormat PaperbackPage Count 768Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 805gDimensions(mm) 233mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888396501Author Kathy Moskowitz StrainFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Water sprites, mountain goblins, shape-shifting animals, and the monsters known as yokai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias,...

The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century-following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny,...

The ""Travelling People"" of Scotland are the traditionally nomadic minority group known also by the derogatory term ""tinkers."" Traveling in groups or in their individual caravans along the high roads and byways of Scotland, they have established a...

The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization. This book presents, for the first time in the West, a wide selection of these fascinating myths preserved among four related peoples whose ancient cultures today survive...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781517611361Author Timothy J StephanyFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780874218442Author Martha SimsFormat HardbackPage Count 342Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams) 712g

Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brunnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor and the Vikings heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's 'Immigrant Song': these are just a few examples of how Icelandic medieval literature has shaped the human...

For as long as humans have inhabited the earth, we have lived alongside the multitude of other creatures with which we share our planet. However it is undoubtedly true that today most of us are not as close to the animals around us as our forebears were,...

Harness the mythic power of the Celtic goddesses, gods, heroes and heroines to aid your spiritual quests and magical goals. This book explains how to use creative ritual and pathworking to align yourself with the energy of these archetypes, whose potent...

In this concise but wide-ranging study, Luc Brisson describes how the myths of Greece and Rome were transmitted from antiquity to the Renaissance. He argues that philosophy was responsible for saving myth from historical annihilation. Although philosophy...

By defining folklore as artistic communication in small groups, Dan Ben-Amos led the discipline of Folklore in new directions. In Folklore Concepts, Henry Glassie and Elliott Oring have curated a selection of Ben-Amos's groundbreaking essays that explore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805203516Author Paul RadinFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 131mm *...

"Excellent." -The Reader's Review"Anybody contemplating the study and pursuit of folklore . . . will benefit from reading this presentation thoroughly to determine your place in this most exciting scholastic world." -Come-All-YeThis is the most complete...

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopaedia of concise entries, from the Greek nymph Aba to the shy Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958381Author Shani Shani OatesFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 482g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781914312014Author Sofia ViscontiFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Fortune PublishingPublisher Fortune PublishingWeight(grams) 544gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585093861Author Theodor H GasterFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint Book TreePublisher Book TreeWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 13mm

This volume gives accounts of the vampire and how its tradition developed in different cultures. Eleven scholars from the fields of Slavic studies, history, anthropology and psychiatry examine the nature of the vampire from its birth in graveyard lore to...

Focusing on Leicestershire and Rutland in central England, this book examines the folklore of the area, such as the seasonal customs, traditions, rituals, and taboos.Book InformationISBN 9780752424682Author Roy PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint...

Myth Theorized provides a survey of some key figures and topics in the modern study of myth. The first part of the book discusses the psychoanalysis of myth including a chapter on the extraordinary changes that psychoanalytic theory has undergone, and...

Interest in goddess worship is growing in contemporary society, as women seek models for feminine spirituality and wholeness. New cults are developing around ancient goddesses from many cultures, although their modern adherents often envision and...

Robin Hood is a national English icon. He is portrayed as a noble robber, who, along with his band of merry men, is said to have stolen from the rich and given to the poor. His story has been reimagined many times throughout the centuries. Readers will...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788433964427Author Stephen FryFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint AnagramaPublisher AnagramaWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 218mm * 140mm * 33mm

Essays by Julius Baum, C. G. Jung, C. Kerenyi, Hans Leisegang, Paul Masson-Oursel, Fritz Meier, Jean de Menasce, Georges Nagel, Walter F. Otto, Max Pulver, Hugo Rahner, Paul Schmitt, and Walter Wili.Book InformationISBN 9780691018232Author Joseph...

The first English publication of Sami folktales from Scandinavia collected and illustrated in the early twentieth century Although versions of tales about wizards and magical reindeer from northern Scandinavia are found in European folk and fairytale...

For more than 150 years, individuals have traveled the countryside with pen, paper, tape recorders, and even video cameras to document versions of songs, music, and stories shared by communities. As technologies and methodologies have advanced, the task...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781499804584Author Erin PeabodyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Little Bee BooksPublisher Little Bee BooksWeight(grams) 181gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781402745485Author Teresa MooreyFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint SterlingPublisher Union Square & Co.

Scholars have long known that the Grail is essentially legendary, a mystic symbol forever sought by those seeking Enlightenment, a quest in which the search is as important as the result. Time and again it has been said that the Grail is a construct of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566566339Author J. M. BedellFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc

One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781607329268Author Andrea KittaFormat PaperbackPage Count 202Imprint Utah State University PressPublisher Utah State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566563758Author Buchi OffodileFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink Publishing Group, Inc