Folklore category: 2054 books
by Beth A. Richards, Chuck L. Gove
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Stories and photos that reveal the haunting history of Cleveland, Ohio.
Many of Cleveland’s dearly departed haunt the Forest City to this day. A spirit lingers in the ballroom, and a little girl cries on the third floor of Franklin Castle, the most haunted site in the city. The man in the...
Arts in Earnest
North Carolina Folklife
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1989
Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill. Traversing from Murphy to Manteo, these fifteen essays demonstrate the importance of North Carolina’s continually changing folklife. From decoy carving along the coast, to the music of tobacco...
Son of the Sun
The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2015
The amazing story of Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV ), Pharaoh of Egypt 1360 B.C. This is not just the fascinating story of a man’s life— it is far more. It raises the curtain on man’s emerging from superstition and idolatry. Against the tremendous opposition of a fanatical and politically corrupt priesthood,...
Jane Eyre's Sisters
How Women Live and Write the Heroine's Story
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Ever since women in the West first started publishing works of fiction, they have written about a heroine who must wander from one place to another as she searches for a way to live the life she wants to live, a life through which she can express her true self creatively in the world. Yet while...
Love Stories
Language, Private Love, and Public Romance in Georgia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
In the remote highlands of the country of Georgia, a small group of mountaindwellers called the Khevsurs used to express sexuality and romance in ways that appear to be highly paradoxical. On the one hand, their practices were romantic, but could never lead to marriage. On the other hand, they were...
Global Clay
Themes in World Ceramic Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2017
For over 25,000 years, humans across the globe have shaped, decorated, and fired clay. Despite great differences in location and time, universal themes appear in the world’s ceramic traditions, including religious influences, human and animal representations, and mortuary pottery. In Global Clay:...
by William Lynwood Montell
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2015
From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Noted folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women...
by E. Pauline Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
I NEVER saw that land before, And now can never see it again Yet, as if by acquaintance hoar Endeared, by gladness and by pain, Great was the affection that I bore To the valley and the river small, The cattle, the grass, the bare ash trees, The chickens from the farmsteads, all Elm-hidden, and the...
by John LeMay
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
While many respectable books on Billy the Kid aim to demystify his illusory life, this one-of-a-kind collection proudly has no such intention. Find all of the untold and potentially true--but very unlikely and highly embellished--stories of the Kid's life, death and enthralling life thereafter. Be...
Northern Wisdom
The Havamal, Tao of the Vikings
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The Orient has long shared its ancient wisdom, and so now do the Northmen. Northern Wisdom presents ancient Viking parables and knowledge in a delightfully accessible modern format.
Combining Teachings on par with Buddha, Lao Tzu, Myamoto Musashi, Nicollo Machiavelli & Sun-Tzu...
Gods and Goddesses in Love
Making the Myth a Reality for You
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In ancient times, the Greeks created the gods and goddesses to represent the various personalities of human nature. In Gods and Goddesses in Love, Agapi Stassinopoulos tells the stories of the primary goddesses and gods, and how their myths can provide insight into your own romantic relationships.
Included...
New Mexico Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
Part of our new and growing Myths, Mysteries and Legends series, Myths, Mysteries and Legends of New Mexico explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in the Land of Enchantment's history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is...
by Rita Cook
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2011
In Fort Worth, the past and present exist side by side and spirits walk among the living. Stay the night at Miss Molly's Hotel; the oldest bed-and-breakfast in the city boasts frequent eerie occurrences and unexplained sightings. Nearby, Cattlemen's Fort Worth Steak House features a special like no other,...
Monon Behavior
Funny science
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
A scientific best-seller that will make you laugh every time you will read it. A funny pseudo-scientific journal in which humour and science are mixed, in the same way in which also english and italian languages are mixed. The result is a very comic sort of "new esperanto".
The book is focused...