Folklore category: 2054 books
by Walter Gregor
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2013
The Folk-Lore of the North-East of Scotland
By Walter Gregor
"This is an ethnographic study of the inhabitants of the North-Eastern area of Scotland in the mid-19th century, at a time when an agrarian, barter economy still prevailed. Life was hard among these remote coastal communities,...
Unsettling Assumptions
Tradition, Gender, Drag
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
In Unsettling Assumptions, editors Pauline Greenhill and Diane Tye examine how tradition and gender come together to unsettle assumptions about culture and its study.
Contributors explore the intersections of traditional expressive culture and sex/gender systems to question, investigate, or...
by Snorri Sturluson
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Hesperides Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
L.A. Exposed
Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Every city has its urban legends, its tall tales, and even its outright lies, and Hollywood and Los Angeles have enough to fill a book--and Paul Young has done just that.
L.A. Exposed includes the facts behind the myths surrounding everything from the tall tales of tinsel town, to the legend...
Untie the Strong Woman
Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2017
Blessed Mother’s Immaculate Love for the Wild Soul
“Have You Forgotten? I Am Your Mother. You Are Under My Protection.”
“There is a promise Holy Mother makes to us,” proclaims Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estés, “that any soul needing comfort, vision, guidance, or strength can...
The Singing Mountaineers
Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
The Quechua people, the "singing mountaineers" of Peru, still sing the songs that their Inca ancestors knew before the Spaniards invaded the Andes. Some of these songs, collected and translated into Spanish by José María Arguedas and María Lourdes Valladares from the Quechua language and the Huanca...
Written in Blood
A Cultural History of the British Vampire
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
A modern guide to vampires, where every page is truly written in bloodVampires, those chilling supernatural creatures of the night—do they really exist? The British Isles has a remarkable association with the realms of the undead, from the 19th-century world of Croglin Grange, Varney the Vampire,...
by Lucian Boia
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2013
Based on the idea that there is a considerable difference between reality and discourse, the author points out that history is constantly reconstructed, adapted and sometimes mythicized from the perspectives of the present day, present states of mind and ideologies. He closely examines historical...
by Edna M. Rodríguez-Plate
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Lydia Cabrera (1900-1991), an upper-class white Cuban intellectual, spent many years traveling through Cuba collecting oral histories, stories, and music from Cubans of African descent. Her work is commonly viewed as an extension of the work of her famous brother-in-law, Cuban anthropologist Fernando...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 explores the diverse ways that contemporary world fiction has engaged with ancient Greek myth. Whether as a framing device, or a filter, or via resonances and parallels, Greek myth has proven fruitful for many writers of fiction since the end of the Cold...
by Daniel Pineda
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
From the strange symbols on a one-dollar bill to the secret signs of the Knights Templar and Freemasons invisible societies and the world of magic and alchemy The Book of Secrets is a comprehensive introduction to the world of secret and esoteric knowledge throughout history. It offers a doorway into...
The Witch
A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Why have societies all across the world feared witchcraft? This book delves deeply into its context, beliefs, and origins in Europe’s history The witch came to prominence—and often a painful death—in early modern Europe, yet her origins are much more geographically diverse and historically deep....
by Theresa Bane
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
This exhaustive volume catalogs nearly three thousand demons in the mythologies and lore of virtually every ancient society and most religions. From Aamon, the demon of life and reproduction with the head of a serpent and the body of a wolf in Christian demonology, to Zu, the half-man, half-bird personification...
La Genèse de l'humanité
Fétichisme - Polythéisme - Monothéisme - La terre et l'homme - Traditions indoues et chaldéennes - La légende de la Genèse dans l'Inde
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "Ce qui frappe le plus le penseur qui, libre de tous préjugés, étudie le fonctionnement des différentes sociétés qui se sont succédé dans le monde, c'est de voir combien est important le rôle joué dans la science par l'esprit de parti et l'égoïsme de caste. Il faut des siècles...