Folklore category: 2054 books
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2011
Joseph Campbell famously compared mythology to a kangaroo pouch for the human mind and spirit: "a womb with a view." In Myths to Live By, he examines all of the ways in which myth supports and guides us, giving our lives meaning. Love and war, science and religion, East and West, inner space and outer...
Cajun and Creole Folktales
The French Oral Tradition of South Louisiana
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 1994
This teeming compendium of tales assembles and classifies the abundant lore and storytelling prevalent in the French culture of southern Louisiana. This is the largest, most diverse, and best annotated collection of French-language tales ever published in the United States. Side by side are dual-language...
Women Who Run With the Wolves
Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
"Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good instincts, passionate creativity, and ageless knowing. Her name is Wild Woman, but she is an endangered species. Though the gifts of wildish nature come to us at birth, society's attempt to 'civilize' us into...
Born on a Mountaintop
On the Road with Davy Crockett and the Ghosts of the Wild Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
Pioneer. Congressman. Martyr of the Alamo. King of the Wild Frontier. As with all great legends, Davy Crockett's has been retold many times. Over the years, he has been repeatedly reinvented by historians and popular storytellers. In Born on a Mountaintop, Bob Thompson combines the stories of...
by Manly P. Hall
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2003
A classic since 1928, this masterly encyclopedia of ancient mythology, ritual, symbolism, and the arcane mysteries of the ages is available for the first time in a compact "reader's edition."
Like no other book of the twentieth century, Manly P. Hall's legendary The Secret Teachings...
Heroes and Heroines
Tlingit-Haida Legend
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2003
Over uncounted generations the Tlingits and Haidas of Southeast Alaska developed a spoken literature as robust and distinctive as their unique graphic art style, and passed it from the old to the young to ensure the continuity of their culture. Even today when the people gather, now under lamplight...
Diana of the Dunes
The True Story of Alice Gray
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
The true story of a woman who abandoned Chicago for a secluded life in a remote shack—and became an early twentieth-century sensation.
In the fall of 1915, an educated woman named Alice Gray traded her life in bustling Chicago for a solitary journey in the remote sand hills of northwest Indiana...
The Fourth of July and the Founding of America
The Startling Truth Behind the Birth of Our Country
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2009
A history of the holiday and an “elegant, ironic, brief but deeply researched meditation on what makes America America” (Financial Times).
Holidays of all sorts are celebrated in the United States, many rooted in the country’s great diversity of ethnicities, religions, and cultures. But...
Haunted Hills
Ghosts and Legends of Highlands and Cashiers, North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
When the sun slips behind the trees and shadows lengthen near dusk, the mountains and valleys of Highlands and Cashiers whisper with o of lost loves, deals gone bad, and ghosts who walk the night.Learn the stories and firsthand accounts of hauntings and the hard to explain. Is that a whisper winding through the hemlocks, or is it just the wind?
by Joe Tennis
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2010
This “interesting collection of Southwest Virginia ghost stories” is packed with pictures and Appalachian lore (Roanoke Star-Sentinel).
A Confederate soldier forever lost at Cumberland Gap. The wispy woman of Roanoke College. The spectral horse that runs the streets of Abingdon. These are...
by Lauren M. Swartz, James A. Swartz
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Everything is bigger in Texas—including the ghosts—especially in San Antonio, “one of the world’s 10 most haunted cities” (National Geographic).
As the saying goes, “dead men tell no tales.” Or do they? From its humble beginnings as a Spanish settlement in 1691 to the bloody battle...
by Charles Perrault
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Celebrating the golden age of illustration in children's literature. Encompassed is a collection of Charles Perrault's (1628-1703) finest tales, including 'Little Red Riding Hood', 'Puss in Boots', 'Cinderella', 'Blue Beard' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. Perrault was an incredibly influential literary...
The Only Certain Freedom
The Transformative Journey of the Entrepreneur
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
A Globe and Mail Best Business Book
The Only Certain Freedom explores the process, pitfalls, and triumphs of leaving the corporate world in order to fashion a career that matches our heartfelt values. Written by management consultant, teacher, and writer, Patrick O’Neill, this book will help...
The Triumph of Narrative: Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture
Storytelling in the Age of Mass Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2011
Narrative has been central to human life for millennia, and the twentieth century has been preeminently the age of the story. Mass culture and mass leisure have enabled us to spend far more time absorbing stories, real and imaginary, than any of our ancestors. Whether or not this has been to our benefit...