Folklore & Mythology

For ages 8+. In Indian cultures all life is considered valuable and sacred and is a part of the powerful spiritual forces of nature. This collection of 36 animal tales, from the nine culture groups of North American Indians, tells stories about the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894877459Author Chris WanglerFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Ghost House PublishingPublisher Ghost House PublishingWeight(grams) 250g

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Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.Book InformationISBN 9780253202390Author Linda DeghFormat PaperbackPage Count 312Imprint Indiana University PressPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781885972958Author Stephen Edred FlowersFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint Lodestar BooksPublisher Lodestar BooksWeight(grams) 177gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781869928964Author David EvansFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 510g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410949769Author Catherine ChambersFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint RaintreePublisher Raintree

For centuries, eyewitnesses around the world -- from America to Africa, Argentina to Scotland -- have reported sightings of dark, mysterious creatures in area lakes that surface briefly, only to quickly disappear. While the most famous lake monsters,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156454896Author Italo CalvinoFormat PaperbackPage Count 800Imprint Wadsworth Publishing Co IncPublisher Cengage Learning, IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894864008Author Tony HollihanFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Folklore PublishingPublisher Folklore PublishingWeight(grams) 260g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926696171Author Daniel AugerFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Eschia BooksPublisher Eschia BooksWeight(grams) 228g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410954749Author Jilly HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint RaintreePublisher Raintree

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788120742109Author N. C. AsthanaFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdPublisher Sterling Publishers Pvt.LtdWeight(grams) 402g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646045549Author Lindsay ChristineeFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Ulysses PressPublisher Ulysses Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780744084535Author Icy SedgwickFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Dorling KindersleyPublisher DKWeight(grams) 805g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467147514Author Dr BrownFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146623Author Denver MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467145435Author Jason McLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781555919801Author Linda M. FordFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Fulcrum Inc.,USPublisher Fulcrum Inc.,USWeight(grams) 780g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781922102904Author Tulo GordonFormat HardbackPage Count 52Imprint Aboriginal Studies PressPublisher Aboriginal Studies PressWeight(grams) 250g

The alluring mermaids sighted by lonely mariners. The winged angels, by turns avenging and comforting, that abound in Christian art. The fearsome Minotaur of Greek mythology. Animal-headed deities, from the elephant-headed Ganesha in India to the...

Tales of the Punjab (1894) is a collection of stories translated and collected by Flora Annie Steel. Collected while Steel lived with her husband in the north of the Indian subcontinent, Tales of the Punjab was a successful introduction to legends and...

In 1489 Johan Hurus printed the first collection of fables in Spain, Lavida del Ysopetconsusfabulas hystoriadas. Illustrated with nearly 200 woodcuts, this work quickly became the most-read book in Spain, beloved of both children and adults. Reprinted...

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...

Winner of the 1984 Lillian Smith Award The saga of the Ledfords of Lancaster, Kentucky, Generations transcends family biography to become a social history of our national experience, a metaphor of America. This twentieth anniversary edition brings the...

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...

Despite their centuries-old history and traditions, witchcraft and magic are still very much a part of modern Anglo-American culture. In Lucifer Ascending, Bill Ellis looks at modern practices that are universally defined as "occult," from commonplace...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780947506575Author A. W. ReedFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint Oratia BooksPublisher Oratia MediaWeight(grams) 320g

In this engaging and personal photographic essay Dianne Hagaman presents and interprets fifty-nine photographs that will interest anyone concerned with how images convey meaning. A photojournalist bored with the constraints of photographing for a daily...

Saving the Nation through Culture is for anyone interested in the cultural and intellectual history of modern China and the international history of folklore studies.Book InformationISBN 9780774838382Author Jie GaoFormat HardbackPage Count 364Imprint...

A colorful illustration of Hawaii's most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collection of folktales by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Drawing from written histories, personal experience, and...

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...

In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781782055433Author Gearoid O CrualaoichFormat HardbackImprint Cork University PressPublisher Cork University PressWeight(grams) 155g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990539053Author Dan AsfarFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Ghost House BooksPublisher Ghost House BooksWeight(grams) 55g

"The Saga of the Volsungs" is an Icelandic epic of special interest to admirers of Richard Wagner, who drew heavily upon this Norse source in writing his "Ring Cycle" and a primary source for writers of fantasy such as J.R.R. Tolkien and romantics such...

National myths are now seriously questioned in a number of societies. In the West, for instance, a number of factors have combined to destabilise the symbolic foundation of nations and collective identities. As a result, the diagnosis of a deep cultural...

"How is it that there are so many lloronas?" A haunting figure of Mexican oral and literary traditions, La Llorona permeates the consciousness of her folk community. From a ghost who haunts the riverbank to a murderous mother condemned to wander the...