Folklore & Mythology

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This bilingual sampler of southwestern tales, legends, and myths offers the modern reader wisdom passed down for hundreds of years. The themes of these stories are universal, love and its costs, forgiveness, good versus evil, but the voices, images, and...

This collection of folktales and superstitions presents the oral traditions of central and southeastern Alabama. A section follows in which superstitions are arranged by topic; and finally, the compilers have included slave narratives for a view of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692345696Author Peter ManuelianFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Peter ManuelianPublisher Peter ManuelianWeight(grams) 118gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865344716Author Teresa PijoanFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 195g

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Discover everything you've ever wondered about the legendary spirits, creatures, and figures of Japanese folklore including how they have found their way into every corner of our pop culture from the creator of the podcast Uncanny Japan. Welcome to The...

The mountains of the Appalachia abound with tales of ghosts and mysterious places. Covering 16 counties, 40 spine-tingling stories will have you traveling the roads and paths of those who have walked before you and listening to their sorrowful tales...

During the four years of the Civil War, the border between eastern Kentucky and southwestern Virginia was highly contested territory, alternately occupied by both the Confederacy and the Union. Though this territory was sparsely populated, the geography...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781528920766Author Susie SnowflakeFormat PaperbackPage Count 166Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

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Between 1895 and 1920, the United States saw a sharp increase in commercial sound recording, the first mass medium of home entertainment. As companies sought to discover what kinds of records would appeal to consumers, they turned to performance forms...

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"Blood Will Tell" explores the ways in which writers, thinkers, and politicians used blood and vampire related imagery to express social and cultural anxieties in the decades leading up to the First World War. Covering a wide variety of topics, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781931832717Author Shellie LariosFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Riverbend PublishingPublisher Riverbend Publishing

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The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities. From 1925, the KIA was owned and edited by the Barry family of Louisville: by...

Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. Elizabeth de la Portilla writes of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781805050261Author Charis MatherFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint BookLife PublishingPublisher BookLife Publishing

In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. This is the period of the Golden Age of folk and fairy tales, when European folklorists sought to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781623156770Author Jason BoyettFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Althea PressPublisher Callisto Media Inc.Weight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 1mm * 1mm * 1mm

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Of the many ballads, tales, and plays extolling filial piety ( xiao )--the foundational virtue of imperial China--none was more popular in that era than the legend of Dong Yong and his heavenly helpmate, Weaving Maiden. Continually revised and...

Storytelling is perhaps the most common way people make sense of their experiences, claim identities, and 'get a life'. So much of our daily life consists of writing or telling our stories and listening to and reading the stories of others. But we rarely...

Tonight, across America, countless people will embark on an adventure. They will prowl among overgrown headstones in forgotten graveyards, stalk through darkened woods and wildlands, and creep down the crumbling corridors of abandoned buildings. They...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467156370Author William J LewisFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 9g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410949721Author Fiona MacDonaldFormat HardbackPage Count 48Imprint RaintreePublisher RaintreeWeight(grams) 236gDimensions(mm) 214mm * 158mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780900675850Author Isabella Augusta GregoryFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Colin Smythe LtdPublisher Colin Smythe Ltd

Award-winning "ghostlorist" Randy Russell admits to being flummoxed by cats. Some cats will give you whisker kisses or sit with you when you're sick. Others will invite you to rub them, then take a swipe at you, claws out. Some might do any of the above,...

A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, reinterpreted, and readapted for over five hundred years. The Precious Scroll of Thunder Peak was one of...