Folklore Mythology category: 2054 books
How about Demons?
Possession and Exorcism in the Modern World
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 1988
Quite an interesting book... " —Religious Studies Review
It is by far superior to anything else on demons we have seen in the past few years." —The American Rationalist
... Goodman is to be commended for a stimulating and wide-reaching treatment of a compelling and much-debated subject."...
The Stigmatized Vernacular
Where Reflexivity Meets Untellability
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
As part of this multilayered conversation about stigma, this volume discusses the relationship between the stigmatized individual and our role as researchers. Here we address our own perspectives as researchers struggling with stigma issues and tellability, as well as scholarly reflexive concerns...
by Ruth Ann Musick
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
" West Virginia boasts an unusually rich heritage of ghost tales. Originally West Virginians told these hundred stories not for idle amusement but to report supernatural experiences that defied ordinary human explanation. From jealous rivals and ghostly children to murdered kinsmen and omens...
Storytelling on the Northern Irish Border
Characters and Community
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2011
More than quaint local color, folklore is a crucial part of life in Aghyaran, a mixed Catholic-Protestant border community in Northern Ireland. Neighbors socialize during wakes and ceilis—informal nighttime gatherings—without regard to religious, ethnic, or political affiliation. The witty, sometimes...
Southern Heritage on Display
Public Ritual and Ethnic Diversity within Southern Regionalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2011
How ritualized public ceremonies affirm or challenge cultural identities associated with the American South
* A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
"From the jazz funeral processions in the streets of New Orleans to the annual Natchez Pilgrimage in Mississippi and the Scottish Highland...
Cinderella across Cultures
New Directions and Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
The Cinderella story is retold continuously in literature, illustration, music, theatre, ballet, opera, film, and other media, and folklorists have recognized hundreds of distinct forms of Cinderella plots worldwide. The focus of this volume, however, is neither Cinderella as an item of folklore nor...
The Bear and His Sons
Masculinity in Spanish and Mexican Folktales
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
All the world over, people tell stories to express their deepest feelings about such things as what makes a "real" man or woman; what true love, courage, or any other virtue is; what the proper relationships are between people. Often groups of people widely separated by space or time will...
by N. Scott Momaday
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2011
"Tai-me" is a traditional medicine bundle used by the Kiowa in their Sun Dance. The bundle has been handed down from generation to generation, through the nineteenth century and into the twentieth. N. Scott Momaday made this discovery when he began his journey to learn about the Kiowa and his paternal...
by John Barber
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Katherine Ferrers is known as the Wicked Lady, a female highwayman who terrorised the local countryside in the middle of the seventeenth century. One night she was mortally wounded but managed to ride back to her home, Markyate Cell, where she died. Her servants took her body to be buried at St Marys...
A Brief Guide to Native American Myths and Legends
With a new introduction and commentary by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
In this brilliant reworking of Lewis Spence's seminal Myths and Legends of the North American Indians, Jon E. Lewis puts the work in context with an extensive new introductory essay and additional commentary throughout the book on the history of Native Americans, their language and lifestyle, culture...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2016
Seton Gordon really created himself as naturalist, photographer and writer, the first such in the country, his first book appearing when he was eighteen. In all he wrote 27 books, two specifically about the Cairngorms where he grew up and first explored and returned to many times throughout his long...
Angels of Warwick
Stone Angels Ever Watching...
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
Angels of Warwick a family saga/murder mystery/romance. The little stone angels in the cemetery knew what happened that night, They werent talking..nor was I. A dead man lies on a moonlit kitchen floor with an eight-inch butcher knife in his back. Two teenage girls stand over Darcys very dead, forty...
The Serbian Folk Epic
It's Theology and Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
This is a thorough and well-documented study, examining the theology and anthropology of the Serbian folk epic. The book opens a new field in Slavic folklore and offers scholars material heretofore not readily available in English. The work sheds light also on the Serbian soul and culture.
Conceptions...
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2015
Introduction
The subject of urban myths and legends is one I have been interested in for a couple of years now. It occurred to me, one day at lunch with friends on the Isle of Dogs, that many long rambling conversations (and ours are certainly long and always rambling) will include a tall tale or...