Folklore & Mythology

""This monumental work has now become... the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars."" -- Southern Folklore Quarterly""A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection."" --...

" . . . excellent book . . . " -The Classical Outlook" . . . brief and readable . . . There is good tonic in these pages for the serious student of oral tradition . . . a remarkable book." -Asian Folklore Studies"The bibliography is a boon for students...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789991642383Author Ngungaa HangaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Univ. of Namibia PressPublisher Univ. of Namibia PressWeight(grams)...

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Spring Man: A Belief Legend between Folklore and Popular Culture deconstructs the nationalistic myth of Spring Man that was created after the Second World War in visual culture and literature and presents his original form as an ambiguous ghostly denizen...

"Peter Tokofsky has provided English readers with a superb translation of one of the most important books on folktales." -Wolfgang MiederThis classic work, first published in 1956, is now available in English. Along with Luthi's The European Folktale and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608641864Author Eve Blantyre SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Arabi ManorPublisher Arabi ManorWeight(grams) 313gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780316331876Author Adam AuerbachFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and HachettePublisher Christy Ottaviano...

"This monumental work has now become . . . the indispensable tool of all folk narrative scholars." -Southern Folklore Quarterly"A work of this kind can never be quite complete, but in this work Stith Thompson has approached perfection." -Volkskunde"An...

Bringing together nearly one hundred tales translated from fourteen languages, Folktales of India opens the vast narrative world of Indian folklore to readers of English. Beck includes oral tales collected from tribal areas, peasant groups, urban areas,...

Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials. For centuries scholars had collected folkloristic texts and had commented on them, but they had not tried to formulate a method of...

The epic of Son-Jara (also known as Sunjata or Sundiata) celebrates the exploits of the legendary founder of the Empire of Old Mali and is still widely recited among Mandekan-speaking peoples of West Africa today. As performed by griots, or professional...

Spine-tingling and funny, Hoosier Folk Legends is a collection of over 300 legends gathered throughout tthe state of Indiana. Ronald L. Baker includes ghost stories, stories of the evil eye, and stories of bloodstopping. He relates legends of Jesse...

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!...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410212108Author Leonard a MagnusFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the...

The essays in Folklore Genres represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions. The study as a whole is concerned with the concept of genre and with the history of genre theory. A selective...

" . . . Wolf and Jensen's English translation of the entire book puts the famous laws into a very useful perspective . . . " -Choice" . . . it is full of clever ideas and observations, and alive with the personality of the writer-lucid, astute and fair."...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780756643096Author Philip WilkinsonFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DKWeight(grams) 1185gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 198mm * 29mm

At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions...

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...

Children will love this colouring book with a difference! There are fifteen traditional Irish stories to read and then colour in, making it a book to treasure. There is something for everyone, from cautionary tales of cunning leprechauns to the thrilling...

An entertaining collection of over 400 folk tales of legends, stories, and magic. Translated from the original Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish, this highly acclaimed work is perfect for bedside or fireside reading. About the Author Reimund Kvideland is...

Chinese Folklore is drawn from over three thousand years of storytelling, with early legends of the gods and heroes, weird mysteries of sorcery and elemental forces, tales of the land and the animals within, and delightful sketches of love. Fantasy and...

Japan's origin story dates from the eight century CE, written in the Kojiki and Nihon Shoki. From the first creation of heaven, earth and the Japanese archipelago from the tip of a spear by the gods Izanagi and Izanami, Shinto and Buddhist traditions...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913230500Author Victoria WilliamsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Tiny TreePublisher Andrews UK LimitedWeight(grams) 200gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781571748294Author Neil Douglas-KlotzFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Hampton Roads Publishing Co

Magic culture is certainly fascinating. But what is it? What, in fact, are magic writings, magic artifacts? Originally published in Hebrew in 2010, Jewish Magic Before the Rise of Kabbalah is a comprehensive study of early Jewish magic focusing on three...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486270456Author F. Hadland DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint 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 9780399168772Author Jim SteinmeyerFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Tarcher/Putnam,USPublisher Tarcher/Putnam,US

An extraordinary investigation, beginning with ancient parchments in Egypt and ending in Spain, casts an entirely new light on the fascinating mystery of the Holy Grail.Recently discovered parchments in Egypt have finally made it possible to identify the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060932572Author Kenneth C DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

If there is one genre that has captured the imagination of people in all walks of life throughout the world, it is the fairy tale. Yet we still have great difficulty understanding how it originated, evolved, and spread--or why so many people cannot...

As a young man, Vusamazulu Credo Mutwa, a Zulu from the South African province of Natal, was determined to follow in the footsteps of his grandfather and become a tribal historian in order to keep the rich oral tradition of his culture alive. In this...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486430904Author Montague SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

A chilling, lavishly illustrated who's-who of the most despicable people ever to walk the earth, featuring both rare and best-loved stories from the hit podcast Lore, now an online streaming series. Here are the incredible true stories of some of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312084998Author Paul JohnsgardFormat PaperbackImprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553382167Author Jack ZipesFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Bantam Books IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 754gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

This beautiful collection of thirteen classic Brothers Grimm fairy tales includes Cinderella; Rumpelstiltskin; Puss in Boots; Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs; Rapunzel; The Town Musicians of Bremen; Little Red Riding Hood; Hansel and Gretel; Sleeping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975788332Author Swami AchuthanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint RelianzPublisher RelianzWeight(grams) 245g

In "Theorizing Myth", Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that "mythos" yielded to "logos" not as part of a...