Folklore & Mythology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374523831Author David FerryFormat PaperbackPage Count 99Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams) 136g

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He's the destroyer of evil, the pervasive one in whom all things lie. He is brilliant, terrifying, wild and beneficent. He is both an ascetic and a householder, both a yogi and a guru. He encompasses the masculine and the feminine, the powerful and the...

Combining Black Dog's three very successful hardcover collections of "urban legends" (Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in the Dryer) into one stupendous volume, Urban Legends is the ultimate collection of those outlandish...

Combining Black Dog's three very successful hardcover collections of "urban legends" (Alligators in the Sewer, The Baby on the Car Roof, and The Cat in the Dryer) into one stupendous volume, Urban Legends is the ultimate collection of those outlandish...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983698241Author Judith SchlesingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Shrinktunes MediaPublisher Shrinktunes MediaWeight(grams) 327g

Esteemed scholar David Leeming, who has authored more than twelve books on mythology, here offers the first comprehensive narrative study of the mythology of the Middle East, that tumultuous region that was the cradle of civilization. Leeming begins with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595179558Author Charles Raymond DillonFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Accessible to students and general readers, this book is a concise but thorough introduction to Caribbean folklore. Included are chapters on the many different types of folklore, a selection of examples and texts, a survey of scholarship and criticism,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486444154Author Hartley Burr AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 361Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.Weight(grams)...

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...

'Tell It by Heart' is a collection of stories about contemporary women of various ages and ethnic backgrounds who have one thing in common: each embraces a pertinent myth as her guide through a difficult passage. Narrated by therapist Erica Helm Meade,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888394828Author Arlene GaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

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 9781876334291Author A. W. ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 440Imprint New Holland PublishersPublisher New Holland PublishersWeight(grams) 446g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878770304Author Charles L. SquireFormat HardbackPage Count 446Imprint Newcastle Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.Publisher Newcastle Publishing Co Inc.,U.S...

Storytellers, a rich collection of more than 250 authentic folktales, confirms the oral tradition of the South. Rising out of a shared rural past, the legends and myths, the jests and trickster tales presented here are as diverse as the tellers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780807081051Author MARGOT ASTROVFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Beacon PressPublisher Beacon Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995778436Author Anne Massey O'ReganFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Beul Aithris PublishingPublisher Beul Aithris PublishingWeight(grams) 340g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780369304346Author Joseph CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 452Imprint ReadHowYouWantPublisher ReadHowYouWantWeight(grams) 626g

An incorrigible trickster, a clever thief, a rogue, sometimes a magnanimous hero, often a vengeful loser, but always a survivor, Coyote is the most complex character in the Nez Perce cycle of traditional myths. Nez Perce Coyote Tales, a collection of...

"Throughout our Cherokee history," writes Joyce Dugan, former principal chief of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, "our ancient stories have been the essence of who we are." These traditional stories embody the Cherokee concepts...

True Myth examines the meaning and significance of myth as understood by C.S. Lewis and Joseph Campbell and its place in the Christian faith in a technological society. C.S. Lewis defined Christianity, and being truly human, as a relationship between the...

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Liberating today's chicken from cartoons, fast food, and other demeaning associations, The Chicken Book at once celebrates and explains this noble fowl. As it traces the rise and fall of Gallus domesticus from the jungles of ancient India to the...

The Great Smoky Mountains, at the border of eastern Tennessee and western North Carolina, are among the highest peaks of the southern Appalachian chain. Although this area shares much with the cultural traditions of all southern Appalachia, the folklife...

Ukrainian Otherlands is an innovative exploration of modern ethnic identity, focused on diaspora/homeland understandings of each other in Ukraine and in Ukrainian ethnic communities around the globe. Exploring a rich array of folk songs, poetry and...

58 of the most familiar Grimm fairy tales, and three fairy tales by Ludwig Bechstein and one anti-fairy tale by Iring Fetscher.Book InformationISBN 9780826402899Author Helmut BrackertFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Continuum International...

Across various time periods, audiences, aesthetics, and cultural landscapes, Little Red Riding Hood is a universal icon, and her story is one of the world's most retold tales. In Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of International...

A type of folklore, myth is central to all cultures. Myths convey serious truths learned over generations and provide practical advice for living within a society. And while many myths go back to antiquity, they are also an important part of popular...

Since the earliest days of universities, students have told stories about their daily lives, often emphasizing extraordinary, surprising, and baffling events. This book examines the fascinating world of college and university legends. While it primarily...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645285437Author Alanna MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Python PressPublisher Python PressWeight(grams) 213g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956645050Author Paul KheraFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Affram BooksPublisher Affram BooksWeight(grams) 203g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781556710483Author Lila Wistrand RobinsonFormat PaperbackImprint Sil International, Global PublishingPublisher Sil International, Global...

Designed as a resource for artists, writers, and behavioral scientists, this compilation of the myths and symbols of old age lists more than 400 entries ranging from Abraham and acacia through Zorya and Zurvan. Coverage includes traditional mythical...

The famous tale from the Brothers Grimm included in this book is only one of the stories from around the world about a very diminutive but resourceful character trying to earn his or her place in the world. This international collection of stories...

In the final years of the Soviet Union and into the 1990s, Soviet Jews immigrated to Israel at an unprecedented rate, bringing about profound changes in Israeli society and the way immigrants understood their own identity. In this volume ex-Soviets in...

Since their expulsion from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews have managed to maintain their Jewish faith and Spanish group identity and have developed a uniquely Judeo-Spanish culture wherever they settled. Among the important cultural ties within these...