Folklore category: 2054 books
by Marie Trevelyan
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
This book contains classic material dating back to the 1900s and before. The content has been carefully selected for its interest and relevance to a modern audience. Carefully selecting the best articles from our collection we have compiled a series of historical and informative publications on the...
Mysterious New Mexico
Miracles, Magic, and Monsters in the Land of Enchantment
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
New Mexico’s twin traditions of the scientific and the supernatural meet for the first time in this long-overdue book by a journalist known for investigating the unexplained. Strange tales of ghosts, monsters, miracles, lost treasure, UFOs, and much more can be found not far from the birthplace...
The Mermaid Handbook
An Alluring Treasury of Literature, Lore, Art, Recipes, and Projects
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Answer the enchanting siren call of the mermaid with this comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and intricately designed one-of-a-kind lifestyle compendium from the editor in chief of Faerie Magazine and author of The Faerie Handbook and globally published novel Mermaid, packed with lore, legends, facts...
by Neil L Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2012
STONEHENGE MATHEMATICS is about numbers and counting, lines triangles circles and ovals their use by the sages of Britain and Ireland five thousand years ago. They designed ancient monuments with ability and care, knowing full well the communitys belief in their skills and knowledge. Arithmetic and...
by Neil L Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2012
STONEHENGE COMPLETE tells of the celebrated ancient monument in southern England seen by a million visitors a year. They come to wonder why Britains prehistoric people built the massive stone circle about 2300 BC. The many questions are answered in Stonehenge Complete. Five thousand years ago the sages...
by Noriko Reider
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
In Japanese culture, oni are ubiquitous supernatural creatures who play important roles in literature, lore, and folk belief. Characteristically ambiguous, they have been great and small, mischievous and dangerous, and ugly and beautiful over their long history. Here, author Noriko Reider presents...
Slender Man Is Coming
Creepypasta and Contemporary Legends on the Internet
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2018
The essays in this volume explore the menacing figure of Slender Man—the blank-faced, long-limbed bogeyman born of a 2009 Photoshop contest who has appeared in countless horror stories circulated on- and offline among children and young people. Slender Man is arguably the best-known example in circulation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2003
Drawing on myth, folklore and history, the stories of the Mabinogion passed from generations of storytellers before they were written down in the thirteenth century in the form we know.
Set in dual realms of the forests and valleys of Wales and the shadowy otherworld, the tales are permeated...
Swinging in Place
Porch Life in Southern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The front porch evokes cherished memories from across a lifetime for many southerners--recollections of childhood games, courtship, family visits, gossip with neighbors. In this book, Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon offers an original appreciation of the significance of the porch to everyday life in the...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
A Mermaid's Tale
A Personal Search For Love and Lore
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2006
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From the seas of antiquity to the city streets of today, A Mermaid's Tale explores the myth and meanings of the mermaid. Beginning with Melusina, the bathing mermaid par excellence, Amanda Adams goes on to describe the seductive sirens and their honeyed songs, the powerful Arctic sea...
To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living...
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Olonkho , the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia 's Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO 's Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity 's oral and intangible heritage....
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries, Urban Myths & Legends and many more...
Introduction
The subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me,...