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Collection of Celtic Folklore Of Wales Important collections of Celtic folklore and one of the most important collections of Welsh folk and fairy legend, including many stories of fairy women who become wives and lovers. Many of these are from the lakes of Wales. John Rhys collected these tales...

Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx By John Rhys Important collections of Celtic folklore and one of the most important collections of Welsh folk and fairy legend, including many stories of fairy women who become wives and lovers. Many of these are from the lakes of Wales. John Rhys collected these...

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...

The Voyage of Bran by Meyer Kuno Old Irish saga of a voyage to the pagan Celtic otherworld, with parallel English and Gaelic. This is Kuno Meyer's translation of the old Irish saga, the Voyage of Bran. In this magical odyssey to the limits of reality, Bran takes a characteristically...

THE WONDROUS CHILD by Bram Stoker "The Wondrous Child" is a tale written by the famous Bram Stoker, writer of Dracula. This short story is an amazing tale of a brother and sister, Sibold and May, and their dream adventure where they encounter the wondrous child. About The...

Black Marigolds by E. Powys Mathers "This is a versified translation of the Caurapancasika. This love poem of fifty stanzas was written by the Kasmiri poet Bilhana Kavi in the 11th century. The story runs that the Brahman Bilhana had a clandestine love affair with Princess Yaminipurnatilaka,...

The Ananga Ranga Translated by Sir Richard Burton An important work of Indian erotology. This book was written by the Indian poet Kalyan Mall much later than the Kama Sutra, in the sixteenth century A.D. This translation was published by the Kama Shastra Society in 1885. MAY you be purified...

Sepher Yezirah translated by Isidor Kalisch "The Sepher Yezirah is the central text of the Kabbalah, in which the doctrine of the 'mother letters' is expounded, and the associations between the other letters and the 'tree of life' are exposited."

The Enclosed Garden of the Truth (The Hadîqatu' l-Haqîqat of Hakîm Abû' L-Majd Majdûd Sanâ'î) tr. by J. Stephenson This first section was translated in English as The Enclosed Garden of Truth (1910). This great work, expressing the poet’s ideas on God, love, philosophy, and reason, is composed of 10,000 couplets in various separate sections.

Survivals in Belief Among the Celts by George Henderson An extensive review of evidence of pre-Christian beliefs in Celtic culture. "This long out-of-print book [...] reviews the extensive literature on survivals of pre-Christian beliefs in the Celtic area. It covers customs from...

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...

The Life and Death of Cormac the Skald ("Kormak's Saga") Book Description: "Kormaks saga is one of the Icelanders' sagas. It tells of the 10th century Icelandic poet, Kormákr Ogmundarson, and Steingerdr, the love of his life. The saga preserves a significant amount of poetry...

The Mahabharata, Book 17: Mahaprasthanika Parva by Kisari Mohan Ganguli, tr. Om! Having bowed down to Narayana, and Nara the foremost of male beings, and the goddess Saraswati also, must the word Jaya be uttered. It is of immense importance to the culture of the Indian subcontinent,...

Storing And Preservation by Kanchan Kabra Storing and preserving food items in the kitchen are an art. Today, as more and more women are working we need to keep grains, pulses, spices handy so that we do not have to rush to the market every now and then. This book will help you with suggestions...