Folklore category: 2054 books
Haunted Austin
History and Hauntings in the Capital City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Discover the spirits and ghosts that have been keeping Austin weird for centuries in this guidebook to the city’s supernatural residents.
A killer lurks in the dark streets, victimizing servant girls throughout 1885, and Austin becomes the first American city to claim a serial killer. The...
by Joseph Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Explore the power of myth as it flowered in the ancient Near East and the Classical World
In this third volume of The Masks of God — Joseph Campbell’s major work of comparative mythology — the preeminent mythologist looks at the pagan religions of Greece, Rome, and the Celts, as well...
Ten Great Religions
An Essay in Comparative Theology
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2013
The first six chapters of the present volume are composed from six articles prepared for the Atlantic Monthly, and published in that magazine in 1868. They attracted quite as much attention as the writer anticipated, and this has induced him to enlarge them, and add other chapters.
The Cult of the Emperor
Roman Emperor Worship in the Ancient World
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2015
THE Roman Imperial Cult began with the first Caesar and continued until the final overthrow of paganism in the Empire. An exhaustive study of the Cult in all its ramifications would practically involve a survey of Roman history during the imperial epoch and would transcend all reasonable limits. A...
Fairies
Your Guide to the World of Fairies
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Get Everything You Need To Know To Enter The Spiritual Realm Of Fairies! Is the fact that you would like to learn more about the spiritual world of fairies but just don't know how to get started making you feel like you'll never get the information you want... maybe you have even thought about just...
Material Vernaculars
Objects, Images, and Their Social Worlds
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2016
The role of objects and images in everyday life are illuminated incisively in Material Vernaculars, which combines historical, ethnographic, and object-based methods across a diverse range of material and visual cultural forms. The contributors to this volume offer revealing insights into the significance...
Seven Cherokee Myths
Creation, Fire, the Primordial Parents, the Nature of Evil, the Family, Universal Suffering, and Communal Obligation
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Like ancient peoples the world over, the Cherokees of the southern Appalachian Mountains passed along their traditions and beliefs through stories, songs, dances, and religious and healing rituals. With the creation of Cherokee writing by Sequoyah, some of the traditions were also recorded in books....
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge
A Companion to Early Irish Saga
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomás Ó Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular.
Ó Cathasaigh has been called “the father of...
by Cody Polston
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
Meet the spirits who haunt this historic New Mexico city . . . photos included!
Old Town Plaza has been the center of Albuquerque community life since the city was founded in 1706 by Governor Francisco Cuervo y Valdez. Historically known as the crossroads of the Southwest, and reflecting an...
Come Go Home with Me
Stories By Sheila Kay Adams
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2000
Sheila Adams has been performing Appalachian ballads and telling stories for over twenty years. A native of Madison County, North Carolina, she was introduced to the tale-telling tradition by her great-aunt 'Granny,' well-known balladeer Dellie Chandler Norton. This collection of Adams's stories provides...
Women at the Beginning
Origin Myths from the Amazons to the Virgin Mary
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
In these four artfully crafted essays, Patrick Geary explores the way ancient and medieval authors wrote about women. Geary describes the often marginal role women played in origin legends from antiquity until the twelfth century.
Not confining himself to one religious tradition or region,...
Curious Myths of the Middle Ages
The Sangreal, Pope Joan, The Wandering Jew, and Others
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
One of the most brilliant, eclectic thinkers in Victorian England, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was intrigued by the grotesque and often savage history of the Middle Ages. The noted author and folklorist’s fascination with the period resulted in this absorbing compilation of vintage...
St George and the Dragons
The Making of English Identity
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2018
St George's Day has become a topic of debate as more and more organizations promote celebrations on 23 April and more people wave the flag of St George to proclaim their allegiance and identity. But who was St George? How did this Near Eastern martyr become England's patron saint and an icon of English...
Bulfinch's Mythology
Includes The Age of Fable, The Age of Chivalry & Legends of Charlemagne
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 1999
For almost a century and a half, Bulfinch's Mythology has been the text by which the great tales of the gods and goddesses, Greek and Roman antiquity, Scandinavian, Celtic, and Oriental fables and myths, and the age of chivalry have been known. The forerunner of such interpreters as Edith Hamilton...