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A Treasury of American Folklore: Stories, Ballads, and Traditions of the People by B. A. Botkin 9781493025350
RRP: $63.00$47.42Named by the Library of Congress in a 2012 exhibit as among the top "100 Books that Shaped America," this two-volume set contains 500 stories and 100 songs collected from the author's time as national folklore editor for the Federal Writer's Project... -
Collected Poems of Ted Hughes by Ted Hughes
RRP: $84.00$59.39For the first time, the vast canon of Ted Hughes's poetry together in one beautiful and collectable paperback edition.The Collected Poems spans fifty years of work, from Hawk in the Rain to the best-selling Birthday Letters. It also includes the complete... -
The Hero by Lee Child 9780008361877
RRP: $12.58$8.78THE ENDURING MYTH THAT MAKES US HUMAN What makes a hero? Who better to answer that question than Lee Child... 'It's Lee Child. Why would you not read it?' Karin... -
Russian Tales: Traditional Stories of Quests and Enchantments by Dinara Mirtalipova
RRP: $39.88$29.74Rediscover the magic of Russian folktales in a breathtaking illustrated edition. This collection of traditional stories will sweep you away to the birch forests and ornate palaces of Russia. You'll meet a mysterious girl born from the snow, a... -
Arcadian Nights: Gods, Heroes and Monsters from Greek Myth by John Spurling
RRP: $23.08$16.74Ancient as they are, the Greek myths still resonate at the core of our literature and culture, and may well reveal more about human nature and the world we have created than we like to believe. From the garden of his house in the Peloponnese... -
The Grail Legend by Emma Jung
RRP: $63.00$48.76The Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redemption and eternal life, the chalice that caught the... -
The Iliad and the Odyssey Boxed Set by Homer 9780520306653
RRP: $88.20$73.14A stunning set of Homer's epics, brilliantly translated by a leading ancient world scholar. Hailed by reviewers and readers alike, Peter Green's landmark translations of Homer's timeless epics are now available for the first time in this striking and... -
The Folklore of Shropshire by Roy Palmer
RRP: $31.50$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781904396161Author Roy PalmerFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Logaston PressPublisher Fircone Books Ltd -
The Tain by Ciaran Carson
RRP: $20.98$16.28The Tain Bo Cualinge, centrepiece of the eighth-century Ulster cycle of heroic tales, is Ireland's great epic. It tells the story of a great cattle-raid, the invasion of Ulster by the armies of Medb and Ailill, Queen and King of Connacht, and their... -
The Hedgehog Handbook by Sally Coulthard
RRP: $20.98$13.69'Wonderful' Yorkshire Times 'Not just a celebration of these enigmatic creatures, but also a timely alarm bell about their shrinking numbers' The Lady 'Just about every hedgehog fact you could wish to know' Northern Echo Hedgehogs, with their... -
The Unicorn Cookbook: Magical Recipes for Lovers of the Mythical Creature by Alix Carey
RRP: $23.08$15.54Add a pinch of sparkle and decorate with an abundance of glitter to create your ultimate unicorn foodie experience. The magical realm of the mighty unicorn comes to life in this dazzling cookery book brimming with sparkles and rainbows. From the magical... -
Ritual: Perspectives and Dimensions by Catherine Bell 9780199735105
$97.71From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because... -
A Druid's Herbal of Sacred Tree Medicine by Ellen Evert Hopman 9781594772306
RRP: $27.28$17.18The Druids used the ancient Ogham Tree Alphabet to work magic and honor the dead, surrounding each letter with medicinal and spiritual lore. Poets and bards created a secret sign language to describe the letters, each of which is named for a tree or a... -
Folklore of Sussex by Jacqueline Simpson 9780752451008
RRP: $35.68$26.54Sussex, though near London and nowadays extensively urbanised, has a rich heritage of traditional local stories, customs and beliefs. Among many topics explored here are tales linked to landscape features and ancient churches which involve such colourful... -
Canal Ghosts & Water-Wights: The Spirits of Britain’s Waterways by Nick Ford 9781739582456
RRP: $31.48$23.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781739582456Author Nick FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 238Imprint Country BooksPublisher Country BooksWeight(grams) 339gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 12mm -
The Book of Superstitions: Black Cats, Yellow Flowers, Broken Mirrors, Cracked Sidewalks, and More Cultural Behaviors & Myths Explained by Shelby El Otmani
RRP: $20.98$13.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646433704Author Shelby El OtmaniFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Cider Mill PressPublisher Cider Mill PressWeight(grams) 218g -
Russian Magic Tales from Pushkin to Platonov by Robert Chandler
RRP: $27.28$20.58'She turned into a frog, into a lizard, into all kinds of other reptiles and then into a spindle'In these tales, young women go on long and difficult quests, wicked stepmothers turn children into geese and tsars ask dangerous riddles, with help or... -
Dark Folklore by Mark Norman 9781803993294
RRP: $31.48$24.70How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And what's that tapping noise on the roof of your car..? The fields of folklore have never been... -
Runes Illustrated by Rachel Newcombe 9781838863197
RRP: $62.98$46.07An alphabet developed by Germanic and Nordic peoples during ancient times, runes were used to represent both simple things and more complex concepts, providing a written form of communication before the latin alphabet was adopted. Today, reading runes... -
A Chinese Bestiary: Strange Creatures from the <i>Guideways through Mountains and Seas</i> by Richard E. Strassberg 9780520298514
RRP: $63.00$48.76A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guideways through Mountains and Seas, compiled between the fourth and first centuries b.c.e., contains... -
Crow by Ted Hughes
RRP: $27.28$17.98Crow was Ted Hughes's fourth book of poems for adults and a pivotal moment in his writing career. In it, he found both a structure and a persona that gave his vision a new power and coherence. A deep engagement with history, mythology and the natural... -
The Real Middle-Earth: A History of the Dark Ages that Inspired Tolkein by Brian Bates
RRP: $27.28$18.94In The Real Middle-Earth, explore the magically enchanting early-English civilization on which Tolkien based his world of The Lord of the Rings.Tolkien readily admitted that the concept of Middle-earth was not his own invention. An Old English term for... -
The Bee and the Sun: A Book of Paintings by Catherine Hyde
RRP: $31.50$23.86Catherine Hyde follows the journey of the bee and the sun in a calendar of glorious full colour paintings that celebrate the sensory delights of herbs, seasoned with bee and plant lore. From the rising and setting of the Pleiades, from sunrise to... -
Tales of the Elders of Ireland by Ann Dooley
RRP: $23.08$16.32"'Dear holy cleric,' they said, 'these old warriors tell you no more than a third of their stories, because their memories are faulty. Have these stories written down on poets' tablets in refined language, so that the hearing of them will provide... -
A History of Crete by Chris Morris
RRP: $27.28$18.38Known by the Greeks as 'Megalonisos', the 'Great Island', Crete has been of paramount strategic importance for thousands of years thanks to its location close to the junction of three continents and the heart of the eastern Mediterranean. The island has... -
Revealing the Green Man by Mark Olly 9781780993362
RRP: $14.68$13.13Revealing the Green Man is designed to impart a practical revelation of a deep and ancient mystery through actual archaeological and historic case studies which point to personal intellectual and spiritual enlightenment affecting everyone alive today... -
Bedfordshire Folk Tales by Jen Foley
RRP: $20.98$15.39Storyteller and author Jen Foley brings together stories from the dark forests, ruined castles and magical green pastureland of Bedfordshire. In this treasure trove of tales you will meet Anglo-Saxon heroines and lascivious monks, as well as restless... -
The Great Mother: An Analysis of the Archetype by Erich Neumann 9780691166070
RRP: $52.50$41.12This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been... -
Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England by Eleanor Parker
RRP: $33.58$25.56Why did the Vikings sail to England? Were they indiscriminate raiders, motivated solely by bloodlust and plunder? One narrative, the stereotypical one, might have it so. But locked away in the buried history of the British Isles are other, far richer and... -
Folk Magic And Healing: An Unusual History of Everyday Plants by Fez Inkwright 9781912634118
RRP: $25.18$20.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912634118Author Fez InkwrightFormat HardbackPage Count 120Imprint Liminal 11Publisher Liminal 11Weight(grams) 312gDimensions(mm) 203mm * 152mm * 13mm -
Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies by Willow Winsham
RRP: $31.48$23.00Following on from the hugely popular Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers and Woodlands and Forests comes Treasury of Folklore: Stars and Skies, an exploration of the mysteries of the stars, skies and heavens above. People have gazed up at the same... -
Crow by Ted Hughes 9780571363162
RRP: $27.28$17.98This anniversary edition celebrates fifty years since the original publication of Crow (1970) - the vital, shape-shifting collectionby Ted Hughes. Its context, including the integral role of the American artist Leonard Baskin and the significance of... -
Hindu Myths: A Sourcebook Translated from the Sanskrit by Wendy Doniger
RRP: $23.08$16.32Recorded in sacred Sanskrit texts, including the Rig Veda and the Mahabharata, Hindu Myths are thought to date back as far as the tenth century BCE. Here in these seventy-five seminal myths are the many incarnations of Vishnu, who saves mankind from... -
Ka by Roberto Calasso
RRP: $23.08$16.32'To read Ka is to experience a giddy invasion of stories - brilliant, enigmatic, troubling, outrageous, erotic, beautiful' The New York Times'Who?' - or 'ka' - is the question that runs through Roberto Calasso's retelling of the stories of the minds... -
Indian Mythology: Tales Symbols and Rituals from the Heart of the Subcontinent by Devdutt Pattanaik 9780892818709
RRP: $35.68$23.27From the blood-letting Kali to the mysterious Ganesha, the Hindu spiritual landscape is populated by characters that find no parallel in the Western spiritual world. Indian Mythologyexplores the rich tapestry of these characters within 99 classic myths,... -
The Caribbean Story Finder: A Guide to 438 Tales from 24 Nations and Territories, Listing Subjects and Sources by Sharon Barcan Elswit 9781476663043
RRP: $75.58$62.16The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore. In Jamaica, the clever spider Anansi, who outsmarts stronger animals, is a symbol of triumph by the weak over the powerful. The fables of the foolish Juan Bobo, who tries to bring milk home in a burlap... -
Natural Magic by Doreen Valiente
RRP: $20.98$16.78Magic is all around us - in stones, flowers, stars, the dawn wind and the sunset cloud. All we need is the ability to see it, understand it, and apply it. Natural Magic explains how to practise the age-old white magic that village wise women have used... -
Shadow & Evil In Fairy Tales by Marie-Louise Von Franz
RRP: $56.70$36.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780877739746Author Marie-Louise von FranzFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)... -
The Fabled Coast: Legends & traditions from around the shores of Britain & Ireland by Sophia Kingshill
RRP: $35.68$25.79Pirates and smugglers, ghost ships and sea-serpents, fishermen's prayers and sailors' rituals - the coastline of the British Isles plays host to an astonishingly rich variety of local legends, customs, and superstitions.In The Fabled Coast, renowned... -
The Hare and the Moon: A Calendar of Paintings by Catherine Hyde
RRP: $31.50$23.86An exquisite, full colour country almanac by artist Catherine Hyde, following the phases of the moon and a hare's journey throughout the twelve months of the year in a lyrical tribute to the natural world. Waking from the winter solstice a hare...