Folklore & Mythology

A richly illustrated encyclopedia that describes individual beings in their cultural context, grouping them across cultures and explaining common mythological themes. This illustrated encyclopedia not only identifies and describes individual beasts in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996758307Author H Byron BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Smith Bridge PressPublisher Smith Bridge PressWeight(grams) 177g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976758181Author H Byron BallardFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Smith Bridge PressPublisher Smith Bridge PressWeight(grams) 154g

Few figures are as famous, mysterious, and influential as the Pied Piper, the notorious catcher of rats and children. With his magical music he was able to bewitch anyone and anything to follow him blindly, and he continues to influence the contemporary...

In Cowboys and Kansas, Jim Hoy educates and entertains us with essays and tales about cowboy life that are based on personal experience, folklore, and history. Introduced to cowboys--famous and obscure, historical and contemporary--we hear them tell...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982403457Author Gregory R. HaynesFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint Symbolon PressPublisher Symbolon PressWeight(grams) 811g

A distinctive aspect of Hindu devotion is the veneration of a human guru, who is not only an exemplar and a teacher, but is often worshipped as an embodiment of the divine. In the past these gurus have almost always been men. Today, however, female gurus...

The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of ""Oriental"" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western...

South Asia is a distant, exotic place to most American students. It is also a land of diverse and fascinating cultures, exemplified by the folklore of the region. This book gives students and general readers a thorough introduction to South Asian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486791982Author Yoti LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987559890Author Alexander JacobFormat PaperbackPage Count 292Imprint Manticore PressPublisher Manticore PressWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999686102Author Ronesa AveelaFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Bendideia PublishingPublisher Bendideia PublishingWeight(grams) 440g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996135566Author Keith KellyFormat HardbackPage Count 116Imprint Keith KellyPublisher Keith KellyWeight(grams) 671g

Don't get in that car without looking in the back seat! Everyone has heard the story about such-and-such, and while it sounds impossible, so-and-so swears that it must be true. Often gory, disgusting, shocking, and surprising, urban legends are central...

Through interviews with three generations of Yalalag Zapotecs ("Yalaltecos") in Los Angeles and Yalalag, Oaxaca, this book examines the impact of international migration on this community. It traces five decades of migration to Los Angeles in...

On Jewish Folklore spans a half-century of scholarly inquiry by the noted anthropologist and biblical scholar Raphael Patai. He essays collected in this volume, some of which are presented for the first time in English translation, provide a rich harvest...

Discover the world of Irish folklore with Kevin Danaher's book, 'In Ireland Long Ago.' This narrative provides a look into traditional Irish folk life, from the comfort of the hearth to the stories and gossip that fill it, alongside the food and drink...

Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages, Spanish Jews were known for their linguistic skills, and as translators and storytellers they were the main transmitters of...

In 1941, while studying folklore at Wayne University with Professor Emelyn Gardner, Bruna Todesco collected from her mother, Clementina, the twenty-two marchen and legends presented in this book. Bruna, her mother, and her father, John, immigrated to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780325002538Author Abdelmajid HannoumFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Heinemann Educational Books,U.S.Publisher Heinemann USA

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888392640Author Ted MeyersFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,CanadaPublisher Hancock House Publishers Ltd...

Here are more than two hundred oral tales from some of Louisiana's finest storytellers. In this comprehensive volume of great range are transcriptions of narratives in many genres (ghost stories, tall tales, myths, magic tales, buried-treasure tales, and...

For centuries, Vietnamese have sustained the history of their nation, both actual and mythic, through their folklore. These stories, passed from generation to generation, contain not only the national saga, but also fundamental cultural values that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408616Author Elli KohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780898753066Author Thomas G ThrumFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the PacificWeight(grams)...

Jewish Moroccan Folk Narratives focuses on two central elements: textual research to examine the aesthetic qualities of the narrative, their division into genres, the various versions and their parallels, and acculturation in Israel, as well as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780918736673Author Donald F. GlutFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Sense of WonderPublisher James A Rock & Co. PublishersWeight(grams) 205g

It's the original children's suspense tale! Thirty-four English-language stories from many different cultures (and one Spanish-language tale from Mexico) all share a common theme: a dangerous character knocks at the door and pretends to be a familiar,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780773408593Author Barbara Smith ChalouFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Em TextsPublisher Em TextsWeight(grams) 152g

Wiregrass (Aristida stricta) refers to a genus of flora that depends on fire ecology for germination. Although its growth is widespread from the Chesapeake Bay to the western brim of Texas, only one region has acquired the word for vernacular recognition...

The Cherokee husband-and-wife team who recorded and translated these folktales in 1961 helped to preserve the lore of seventeen elder Oklahoma Cherokees. This volume includes a wide variety of folklore; talking-animal stories, tales of a dragon-like...

The authors present a historical picture of gender relations in Highlands New Guinea by exploring domains of imagination as revealed in courting songs, ballads, and folktales from across the Highlands but with particular reference to field areas in the...

This book explores the complexity of story text. Its thesis is that one can elicit the world view of a people from a close structural analysis of their narrative discourse. It is the first methodological explanation of how stories can be used as a source...

Teeming with creatures, both real and imagined, this encyclopedic study in cultural history illuminates the hidden web of connections between the Victorian fascination with fairies and their lore and the dominant preoccupations of Victorian culture at...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837176314Author Richard McGillivray DawkinsFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780837107394Author Wang Chi-ChenFormat HardbackPage Count 225Imprint Praeger Publishers IncPublisher ABC-CLIO

Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and culture. Here are ninety folktales and stories of historical events, collected and translated into English...

From Paul Verhoeven's The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold's The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany's state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over forty feature-length,...

This first collection of fiction by Anjana Appachana provides stories that are beautifully written, the characters in them carefully and respectfully drawn. All the stories are set in India, but the people in them seem somehow displaced within their own...