Folklore category: 2054 books
by Jeanne deLavigne
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2013
"He struck a match to look at his watch. In the flare of the light they saw a young woman just at Pitot's elbow -- a young woman dressed all in black, with pale gold hair, and a baby sleeping on her shoulder. She glided to the edge of the bridge and stepped noiselessly off into the black waters."...
Arthur
God and Hero in Avalon
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
For fifteen centuries, legends of King Arthur have enthralled us. Born in the misty past of a Britain under siege, half-remembered events became shrouded in ancient myth and folklore. The resulting tales were told and retold, until over time Arthur, Camelot, Avalon, the Round Table, the Holy Grail,...
Robicheaux's Roots
Culture and Tradition in James Lee Burke's Dave Robicheaux Novels
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2016
James Lee Burke developed the character of Cajun detective Dave Robicheaux through twenty mystery novels published over three decades. Despite readers’ increasing interest in Detective Robicheaux, his habits and preferences originate from a culture still unfamiliar to many of the books’ fans....
Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area
Introduction, Notes, and Classification
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Urban Los Angeles is the setting in which Elaine Miller has collected her narratives from Mexican-Americans. The Mexican folk tradition, varied and richly expressive of the inner life not only of a people but also of the individual as each lives it and personalizes it, is abundantly present in the United...
Fairy Tales and Society
Illusion, Allusion, and Paradigm
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2014
This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view. For generations of children and adults, fairy tales have encapsulated social values, often through the use of fixed characters...
by George Bird Grinnell
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long regarded as some of the most skilled bison hunters, the Blackfeet tribes' territory once covered large swaths of the areas now known as Alberta, Canada and the U.S. state of Montana. This fascinating collection of legends and folklore will afford modern-day readers a glimpse into the unique values and beliefs of this culture.
Folk Religion of the Pennsylvania Dutch
Witchcraft, Faith Healing and Related Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2018
For almost three centuries, the “Pennsylvania Dutch”—descended from German immigrants—have practiced white magic, known in their dialect as Braucherei (from the German “brauchen,” to use) or Powwowing. The tradition was brought by immigrants from the Rhineland and Switzerland in the 17th...
by Uri Wernik
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2012
One sunny (or was it cloudy?) day, I noticed that in my inner thoughts, fish idioms and proverbs appeared quite frequently. In addition, in some of the books that I have written, fish sayings would pop up occasionally from the pages. Collections of quotations are among my favorite reading materials.While...
by Maria Papachristos
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Un’opera completa, unica nel suo genere, in cui i miti e le leggende dell’antica Grecia vengono esaminati e illustrati con precisione e accuratezza. Un’accurata analisi che parte dalle Divinità primordiali passando per i Titani, i Giganti, i Ciclopi, gli Dèi dell’Olimpo e degli Inferi, per...
by Ruth Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
County Limerick is a place of kings and commoners. It is where Donn Fírinne, king of the Munster fairies, is said to have once roamed, and where Sean na Scuab, a poor broom seller from the wrong side of the river, was chosen to be mayor of the city. It is a land filled with stories, poetry, music,...
You Don’t Know Jack
A Storyteller Goes to School
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2019
“Jack and the Beanstalk,” “Little Jack Horner,” and “Jack the Giant Killer” are all famous tales and rhymes featuring the same hero, a character who often appears in legends, fairy tales, and nursery rhymes. Unlike moralizing fairy tale heroes, however, Jack is typically depicted as foolish...
Hairy, Scary, but Mostly Merry Fairies!
Curing Nature Deficiency through Folklore, Imagination, and Creative Activities
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Author Renee Simmons Raney believes that every child deserves his or her own personal landscape in which to seek adventure and unleash creativity. Through this charming storybook, Renee weaves fairy stories, enhancing the natural world with supernatural creatures, and connecting children to diverse...
Ethnologies en miroir
La France et les pays de langue allemande
Language: French
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Pourquoi en France a-t-on donné la priorité à l'étude de la parenté, et dans les pays de langue allemande à celle de la narration populaire ? Quels rapports entretiennent l'ethnologie française avec l'histoire et celle de langue allemande avec le politique ? De quelle manière étudie-t-on,...
The San Saba Treasure
Legends of Silver Creek
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In 1868, four treasure hunters from San Marcos, Texas, searched for a lost mine on the San Saba River, near today’s Menard. It was popularized as folklore in J. Frank Dobie’s treasure legend classic Coronado’s Children. One hundred and fifty years later, a descendant of one of those four men...