Folklore & Mythology

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780190081836Author MaurizioFormat PaperbackImprint Oxford University Press, USAPublisher Oxford University Press, USAWeight(grams) 191g

"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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781919825106Author Coral FourieFormat HardbackPage Count 71Imprint Protea BoekhuisPublisher Protea BoekhuisWeight(grams) 675g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896445168Author Kira Van DeusenFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint CCI PressPublisher CCI PressWeight(grams) 480g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759311Author Anne EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 460g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781578598298Author Nick RedfernFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Visible Ink PressPublisher Visible Ink Press

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604977165Author Soe Marlar LwinFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 399g

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...

A pillar of the West African oral tradition for centuries, this epic traces the adventures and achievements of the Mande hero, Sunjata, as he liberates his people from Sumaworo Kante, the sorcerer king of Soso, and establishes the great medieval empire...

Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains superficial and stereotypical at best. For many people, these scenarios trigger...

A unique collection of Sweden's most charming folktalesSwedish Folktales and Legends is a diverse and representative collection of stories from Sweden's centuries-old folklore tradition. Ranging from the ribald to the romantic, from the rustic to the...

The American West is a region, perhaps more than any other in the United States, that comes to us in visual terms. The grand landscapes, open vistas, and magisterial views have made the act of looking a defining feature of how we experience the West as...

Wisdom and Initiation in Gabon: A Philosophical Analysis of Fang Tales, Myths, and Legends is a study of the philosophical significance of Fang mythology and the rituals of Initiation that lead to Wisdom. Bonaventure Mve Ondo argues that Fang tales,...

Every year thousands of pilgrims travel to Brindavan, the village where Krishna is said to have lived as a child. There, they witness a series of religious dramas called ras lilas, whose central roles are performed by children. By translating four plays...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices...

Galilee has been a crossroads of cultures, religions, and languages for centuries, as illustrated in fascinating Bedouin folktales, which offer excellent examples of the Arabic narrative tradition of the Middle East. Bedouin Folktales from the North of...

Chinese folklorists are well acquainted with the work of their English-language colleagues, but until recently the same could not be said about American scholars' knowledge of Chinese folkloristics. Chinese Folklore Studies Today aims to address this...

Wiggling a pencil so that it looks like it is made of rubber, "stealing" your niece's nose, and listening for the sounds of the ocean in a conch shell- these are examples of folk illusions, youthful play forms that trade on perceptual oddities...

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images...

In Senegal, portraiture serves as a vital index and creator of social connection. People sit for and display portraits, keep albums, and view illustrated magazines together. Through these portraiture practices, Senegalese have fashioned idealized images...

In 1976, Ronald Reagan hit the campaign trail with an extraordinary account of a woman committing massive welfare fraud. The story caught fire and a devastating symbol of the misuse government programs was born: the Welfare Queen. Overthrowing the Queen...

Folklorist Elaine J. Lawless has devoted her career to ethnographic research with underserved groups in the American Midwest, including charismatic Pentecostals, clergywomen, victims of domestic violence, and displaced African Americans. She has...

In 1860 Abraham Lincoln employed the proverb, Right makes might, (opposite of the more aggressive Might makes right) in his famed Cooper Union address. While Lincoln did not originate the proverb, his use of it in this critical speech indicates that the...

"When I moved to northern New Mexico thirty-three years ago," writes John Nichols, "I immediately fell in with my neighbours and commenced laughing." As folklorist Nasario Garcia explains in his introduction to this collection,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795701009Author Dinah M. MbanzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992686369Author Olabode OgunlanaFormat HardbackPage Count 278Imprint Books of Africa LtdPublisher Books of Africa LtdWeight(grams) 602gDimensions(mm)...