Folklore category: 2054 books
by Margarita Marín-Dale
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2016
Decoding Andean Mythology is a comprehensive analysis of Native Andean oral tradition spanning five centuries. Based on twenty years of research and a wide range of scholarship, this book departs from the Cuzco-centered focus of many published Andean narratives and includes myths, stories, and folktales...
by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This edition of Grimm Tales Made Gay, contains parodies of many of the Brothers Grimm’s narratives – as never seen before. It includes the fantastic children’s stories of ‘How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten’, ‘How the Babes in the Wood showed they Couldn’t be Beaten’, ‘How...
Grimms' Tales around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe,...
Joking Asides
The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights.
A folklorist drawn to the study...
The Universal Vampire
Origins and Evolution of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and...
The Washer of the Ford
Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
This satisfyingly diverse collection of ancient and medieval short stories and fables will please readers with an interest in folklore and mythology. Some have their roots in the Gaelic tradition, while others are more generally European in origin, but all share an engrossing intensity and clarity.
by Charles Gould
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
An exploration into all beasts fabled, fabricated, fantastical, and fanciful, from across the world, including the Chinese and Japanese Dragon, Unicorn, Phoenix, and the spate of Sea Serpents sighted off the 19th century New England coast.
by K. Bradley Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Every civilization, no matter how old, has a body of traditional stories which define its culture heritage. Many of these myths and legends have a direct effect on customs and religious traditions within societies. Comprised of articles originally published on mythsoftheworld.blogspot.com, this volume...
by Professor Beaver
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
You can’t believe the story of how Leto gave birth to her twins! This story is one of motherly love and a woman’s jealousy. You will also learn about geography because yes, the Greek island of Delos is real! Read about mythology for a refreshing means to study virtues, geography and culture. Start with this book today!
Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt
A Study of Spirit Possession
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who came to seek help. In an intense study,...
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917.
Combining...
Epic
Form, Content, and History
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; describes the paradoxical role of the hero as both the Everyman and the radical exception; and establishes the complex quest underlying all human action. Epic...
Vishnu’s Mount
Birds In Indian Mythology And Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2017
Do you know how the mythical bird Garuda became Vishnu’s Mount?
What does a serpent coiled around a peacock signify?
Which bird in the hands of Mohini represents carnal love?
Have you ever wondered about the significance of the birds you see with gods and goddesses when you regularly prostrate and...
Discover the world differently n°2
Travel with your child and open his/her mind! Brazil, Canada, Romania, Thailand, Egypt, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Make your children discover the world differently!
Are your children bored in front of the TV or with video games?
What if you were to offer them another way to discover the countries and peoples of our planet?
This little Kids Experience « Discover the world differently » will help you!
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