Folklore category: 2054 books

Nouvelle édition (entièrement recomposée) de ce monumental ouvrage sur le folklore de la France. Ce tome (4-b sur 4) reprend la partie consacrée au Peuple et à l’Histoire : successivement : Gens d’Eglise (prêtres, moines, religieuses, templiers, etc.) ; Noblesse et Tiers-Etat ; les Guerres...

Nouvelle édition (entièrement recomposée) de ce monumental ouvrage sur le folklore de la France. Ce tome (2-b sur 4) reprend la partie consacrée aux eaux douces : les fontaines ; la puissance des fontaines ; les puits ; les rivières et les eaux dormantes en sont les grands chapitres. On reste...

Nouvelle édition (entièrement recomposée) de ce monumental ouvrage sur le folklore de la France. Ce tome (4-a sur 4) reprend la partie consacrée aux Monuments : depuis la Préhistoire, à travers mégalithes, menhirs, dolmens, tumulus et autres pierres diverses et les cultes qui s’y rapportent,...

Nouvelle édition (entièrement recomposée) de ce monumental ouvrage sur le folklore de la France. Ce tome (3-b sur 4) reprend la partie consacrée à la Flore : successivement : les Arbres, leur symbolique, leur culte, leurs propriétés, les contes et légendes les concernant ; les Plantes, leur...

In my last foreword I emphasized the value of folklore. Its significance grows upon me with age. I have now come to regard it as a kind of appendix to Scripture. Outside of mere magic, an abuse of correspondences, as Swedenborg calls it, there is in folklore a digest of the spiritual insight of the...

A neighbour of mine exclaimed, when I mentioned that I proposed making a small collection of the folklore legends of the tribe of blacks I knew so well living on this station, "But have the blacks any legends?"-thus showing that people may live in a country and yet know little of the aboriginal...

"If you have a feeling for the mystery and enchantment of the woods, you will want to own this book." — Outlook. Assembled from an enormous range of sources, this fascinating book is a mind-expanding compendium of facts, folklore, superstitions, myths, and anecdotes about trees and the...

The beautiful county of Yorkshire is the largest in Britain, and yet still possesses a strong and cohesive regional identity. Built on centuries of shared tradition, a characteristic body of folklore has thrived and endured well into the present day. Folklore of Yorkshire chronicles such beliefs throughout...

The Hebrides in western Scotland is a windswept and wild country and this is reflected in the folklore of this awe inspiring place. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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 interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special...

The Fairy Mythology by Thomas Keightley "A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being. The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European...

Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Vol. IV by J. F. Campbell This is the last of four volumes of Campbell's collection of Scottish folklore. This volume is essentially an extended appendix to the previous three volumes, containing commentary, documentation, and analysis, particularly a rousing...

An absorbing collection of folklore and legend from a timeless county in the heart of Ireland. Comprising stories on fairies, Leprechauns, witches and wizards. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive....

This book describes the reaction of the common people to some of the tumultuous events which occurred in Northamptonshire and shaped England’s history, and how this gave rise to many colourful folklore traditions. Especially rich in dialect, vocabulary, legends, and wondrous stories that have been...