Folklore & Mythology

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

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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)...

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

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...

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...

Today when we think of domestic cats, we recall the familiar hearthside companion and the mischievous playmate. It is difficult to comprehend that in the past the animal has played a fundamental role in the development of European and Western...

Author Mary L. Beck recounts nine traditional Native American legends from the Northwest Coast.Book InformationISBN 9780882403342Author Mary Giraudo BeckFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Alaska Northwest BooksPublisher Graphic Arts Center Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956562838Author Rionach Ui OgainPage Count 200Imprint Comhairle Bhealoideas EireannPublisher Comhairle Bhealoideas Eireann

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...

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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...

In this major work by the distinguished Swiss folklorist Max Luthi, the traditional fairytale is examined from two related points of view, that of aesthetics and that of anthropology. Luthi shows that fairytales are more than just a pleasing form; they...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486269412Author W. B. YeatsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams) 369g

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior. This book explores the...

In the 1970s, feminists focused critical attention on fairy tales and broke the spell that had enchanted readers for centuries. By exposing the role of fairy tales in the cultural struggle over gender, feminism transformed fairy-tale studies and sparked...

The classic folk tales of Scotland were passed down from storyteller to storyteller, and from the first sentence they held the attention of the listeners and readers as though a spell had been cast over them, transporting them to a magical realm where...

There is a time and a season to all things, and death is an inevitable part of the circle of life.Oral traditions from all over the world are full of stories giving shape to the very human wish to defy death - our own death and the deaths of others. Folk...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781642970210Author Martin PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Hampton Roads Publishing CoPublisher Red Wheel/Weiser

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age.Book InformationISBN 9780375714399Author John BierhorstFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Modern Library...

The stories of Thor, Odin and Loki are familiar to most of us. Many people know that the Norse gods fought against giants and were ultimately betrayed by Loki the trickster. The end of the world and the death of the gods in a grim battle called Ragnarok...

The Knotsman does not exist, you will not find him in history books or collections of 'bygone' skills. But Math Jones has created him, and his fellows, in a time very like the English Civil War. There he is, going from house to house, village to village,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780975788349Author Swami AchuthanandaFormat PaperbackPage Count 170Imprint Relianz Communications Pty LtdPublisher Relianz Communications Pty...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780785839750Author Margot EdmondsFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Castle BooksPublisher Castle BooksWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 30mm

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394740188Author Richard ErdoesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 635gDimensions(mm) 231mm *...

Other 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780738773711Author Mawiyah Kai El-Jamah BomaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Llewellyn Publications,U.S.Publisher Llewellyn Publications,U.S...

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"Pentikainen's exceptional interdisciplinary study will richly reward those interested in the dynamics of artistic creation and cultural construction, ethnic emergence and political nationalism, and shamanistic belief systems." -American Anthropologist" ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781948803038Author Ivan T. SandersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 525Imprint Adventures Unlimited PressPublisher Adventures Unlimited PressWeight(grams) 1g