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Folktales Retold: A Critical Overview of Stories Updated for Children by Amie A. Doughty 9780786425914
RRP: $42.88$35.04Folktales and fairy tales are living stories; as part of the oral tradition, they change and evolve as they are retold from generation to generation. In the last thirty years, however, revision has become an art form of its own, with tales intentionally... -
Vegan Ramayana: The Shakahara StarFire Way of Rama by Teja Shankara 9781300767688
RRP: $63.32$23.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781300767688Author Teja ShankaraFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 191g -
Tama in Japanese Myth: A Hermeneutical Study of Ancient Japanese Divinity by Tomoko Iwasawa 9780761855187
RRP: $74.10$65.34Tama in Japanese Myth attempts to elucidate Japanese religious experiences by presenting a new interpretation of the oldest existing text of Japanese myth, the Kojiki. Informed by phenomenological hermeneutics, Iwasawa shows that the concept of tama lies... -
The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Narrative by David Williams 9780739143971
RRP: $212.55$186.36Until recently, scientific and literary cultures have existed side-by-side but most often in parallel universes, without connection. The Trickster Brain: Neuroscience, Evolution, and Nature by David Williams addresses the premise that humans are a... -
Battles and Enchantments: Retold From Early Gaelic Literature by Norreys Jephson O'Conor 9781410210104
RRP: $48.65$32.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410210104Author Norreys Jephson O'ConorFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint University Press of the PacificPublisher University Press of the... -
A Collection of Animal Inspired Jamaican Proverbs & Social Commentary: (Fill in the Animal Blanks) Infused with Related Songs & Artists by Dr Indiana Robinson 9781387822263
RRP: $39.00$33.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387822263Author Dr Indiana RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Lulu.comPublisher Lulu.comWeight(grams) 513g -
Decoding the Night: Greek Myth as a Celestial Map by Iza N Steiner 9781387588220
RRP: $58.40$34.71Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781387588220Author Iza N SteinerFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Iza N. SteinerPublisher Iza N. SteinerWeight(grams) 553gDimensions(mm) 279mm * 216mm *... -
The Ten Foot Square Hut and Tales of the Heike by A L Sadler 9781258958336
RRP: $89.60$75.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258958336Author A L SadlerFormat HardbackPage Count 294Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 562g -
The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The Fables and Folklore of a Strange People (1888) by David Kalakaua 9781169978638
RRP: $93.50$74.61Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781169978638Author David KalakauaFormat PaperbackPage Count 562Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 744g -
The Folktale by Deceased Stith Thompson 9781258932626
RRP: $111.05$94.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781258932626Author Deceased Stith ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 520Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 857g -
Haunted Inns of the Southeast by Sheila Turnage 9780895872340
RRP: $27.28$21.35Whether you like sleeping among spirits or simply enjoy reading a good ghost story, Haunted Inns of the Southeast is your guide to ninety mysterious places across nine states. At the Don Cesar Resort in St. Petersburg, Florida, you might witness a man... -
The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould 9780977304097
RRP: $19.48$17.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977304097Author Sabine Baring-GouldFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Wilder PublicationsPublisher Wilder PublicationsWeight(grams) 171g -
One Thousand One Papua New Guinean Nights: Folktales from Wantok Newspapers: Volume 2, Tales from 1986-1997 by Thomas H Slone 9780971412712
RRP: $97.40$69.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780971412712Author Thomas H SloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 588Imprint Masalai PressPublisher Masalai PressWeight(grams) 1370g -
Down Along the Mother Volga: An Anthology of Russian Folk Lyrics by V. Ja. Propp 9780812276688
$158.09The introductory essay by Propp is a translation of O russkoi narodnoi liricheskoi pesne which was originally published in Narodnye liricheskie pesni, 1961.Book InformationISBN 9780812276688Author V. Ja. ProppFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint... -
Fairy Godfather: Straparola, Venice, and the Fairy Tale Tradition by Ruth B. Bottigheimer 9780812236804
$108.99In the classic rags-to-riches fairy tale a penniless heroine (or hero), with some magic help, marries a royal prince (or princess) and rises to wealth. Received opinion has long been that stories like these originated among peasants, who passed them... -
Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana by Nathan Rabalais 9780807174814
$72.05In Folklore Figures of French and Creole Louisiana, Nathan J. Rabalais examines the impact of Louisiana's remarkably diverse cultural and ethnic groups on folklore characters and motifs during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Establishing... -
The Little Book of Folklore: An Introduction to Ancient Myths and Legends of the UK and Ireland by Kitty Greenbrown 9781837993215
RRP: $15.58$10.92Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson, Scottish Traveller by John D. Niles 9781496841575
RRP: $212.55$172.52Born in 1928 in a tent on the shore of Loch Fyne, Argyll, Duncan Williamson (d. 2007) eventually came to be recognized as one of the foremost storytellers in Scotland and the world. Webspinner: Songs, Stories, and Reflections of Duncan Williamson,... -
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts by Chris Goertzen 9781496843746
$66.30What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia... -
Rugs, Guitars, and Fiddling: Intensification and the Rich Modern Lives of Traditional Arts by Chris Goertzen 9781496843739
$216.29What do exotic area rugs, handcrafted steel-string guitars, and fiddling have in common today? Many contemporary tradition bearers embrace complexity in form and content. They construct objects and performances that draw on the past and evoke nostalgia... -
Ancient Symbology in Fantasy Literature: A Psychological Study by William Indick 9780786460397
RRP: $42.88$36.17Archetypal symbols in ancient myths as well as the folktales, nursery stories, and fairytales of the Middle Ages are the blueprints of modern fantasy literature. This book explores the modern dreamscape of present-day fantasy, using the ancient myths and... -
Folklore and Food: Folktales that center on family, food, and down-home cooking by Theresa Bane 9780764342202
RRP: $37.03$24.67History is steeped in wonderful and strange folklore. Here, premier storyteller Cynthia Moore Brown tells 17 old-timey favorites, each one including a special home-style recipe connected to the story. As for the lore, avoid a brush with death in... -
Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine (Esprios Classics) by Lewis Spence 9781034553489
RRP: $54.74$37.26Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781034553489Author Lewis SpenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 152g -
John Henry and His People: The Historical Origin and Lore of America's Great Folk Ballad by John Garst 9781476686110
RRP: $56.53$46.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476686110Author John GarstFormat PaperbackPage Count 183Imprint McFarland & CompanyPublisher McFarland & CompanyWeight(grams) 152g -
Expressions of Sufi Culture in Tajikistan by Benjamin Gatling 9780299316808
RRP: $136.50$129.13This eloquent ethnography reveals the daily lives and religious practice of ordinary Muslim men in Tajikistan as they aspire to become Sufi mystics. Benjamin Gatling describes in vivid detail the range of expressive forms-memories, stories, poetry,... -
Tracking the Weretiger: Supernatural Man-Eaters of India, China and Southeast Asia by Patrick Newman 9780786472185
RRP: $29.23$25.41Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "little tigers," or leopards alike, were in... -
You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School by Kevin D. Cordi 9781496821249
RRP: $212.55$196.85Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is... -
Scottish Folklore by Raymond Lamont-Brown 9781780278476
RRP: $13.63$9.44Scotland has one of the richest traditions of folklore in the world, and the nation’s greatest writers have been influenced by the country’s abundance of customs, superstitions, ghost stories and folktales. Robert Burns, Walter Scott, James Hogg and... -
Earth and Spirit: Medicinal Plants and Healing Lore from Puerto Rico by Maria Benedetti 9780963344014
RRP: $64.25$48.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780963344014Author Maria BenedettiFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Verde LuzPublisher Verde LuzWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 17mm -
Folktales from Zou Ma: Chinese Cultural Heritage Town of Storytelling by Zhihui Sophia Geng 9781792481253
RRP: $228.15$184.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781792481253Author Zhihui Sophia GengFormat PaperbackPage Count 277Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S. -
Djeha, the North African Trickster by Christa C. Jones 9781496847041
$223.92Djeha-also known as Juha, Jeh'a, and Ch'ha, among many variations-is an iconic figure, the trickster hero of an oral folktale tradition that has existed for centuries. The famous Maghrebian prankster is a poor, cunning, and resourceful character that... -
You Don't Know Jack: A Storyteller Goes to School by Kevin D. Cordi 9781496821256
RRP: $68.15$64.16Jack and the Beanstalk, Little Jack Horner and Jack the Giant Killer are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is... -
The Story-Time of the British Empire: Colonial and Postcolonial Folkloristics by Sadhana Naithani 9781604734553
RRP: $212.55$192.54In The Story-Time of the British Empire, author Sadhana Naithani examines folklore collections compiled by British colonial administrators, military men, missionaries, and women in the British colonies of Africa, Asia, and Australia between 1860 and 1950... -
Black Folklore and the Politics of Racial Representation by Shirley Moody-Turner 9781617038853
RRP: $212.55$196.85Before the innovative work of Zora Neale Hurston, folklorists from the Hampton Institute collected, studied, and wrote about African American folklore. Like Hurston, these folklorists worked within but also beyond the bounds of white mainstream... -
Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century by Shelley Ingram 9781496844361
$66.30Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, Lena Marander-Eklund, Jennifer Morrison, Willow G... -
The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends by Simon Young 9781496839473
RRP: $191.10$188.21In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including "the Choking Doberman," "the Eaten Ticket," and "the Vanishing Hitchhiker." But what about the urban legends of the... -
Folklore Recycled: Old Traditions in New Contexts by Frank de Caro 9781617037641
RRP: $212.55$196.85Folklore Recycled starts from the proposition that folklore--usually thought of in its historical social context as ""oral tradition""--is easily appropriated and recycled into other contexts. That is, writers may use folklore in... -
Why Gone Those Times?: Blackfoot Tales by James Willard Schultz 9780806135458
$37.28James Willard Schultz first encountered the Blackfeet Indians in Montana Territory in 1877, when he was seventeen. In time, he married a Blackfoot woman, formed close friendships with many in the tribe, and lived with them off and on for the next seventy... -
The Meaning of Myth in World Cultures by Michael Buonanno 9780786497126
RRP: $56.53$45.59Mythology--circulated in sacred stories (myths) and their reenactments (rituals)--is the basis of any society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology's meaning depends on the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors... -
Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery by Charlie Groth 9781496820365
RRP: $212.55$196.85Lewis Island in Lambertville, New Jersey, is the site of the Lewis Fishery, the last haul seine American shad fishery on the nontidal Delaware River. The Lewis family has fished in the same spot since 1888 and operated the fishery through five...