Folklore Mythology category: 2054 books
Swinging in Place
Porch Life in Southern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2003
The front porch evokes cherished memories from across a lifetime for many southerners--recollections of childhood games, courtship, family visits, gossip with neighbors. In this book, Jocelyn Hazelwood Donlon offers an original appreciation of the significance of the porch to everyday life in the...
Dancing on the Color Line
African American Tricksters in Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American scholarship. Yet similar inquiries regarding...
When the Dragon Wore the Crown
Putting Starlight Back into Myth
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
When our ancestors gazed upon the skies thousands of years ago they looked up into the center of Creation and saw a mighty Dragon, a great celestial serpent with wings circling ceaselessly above them, night after night, century after century. When the Dragon Wore the Crown is a ground breaking book...
by Alan Leddon
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2013
Alan Leddon delights readers with this collection of exhaustively researched vampires and vampire like creatures from around the world. Explore the enormous variety of mythological and real world creatures that have been feared for centuries.In these pages, learn about 78 varieties of vampires,...
To See Them Run
Great Plains Coyote Coursing
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2015
To See Them Run explores how and why Great Plains hunters have chased coyotes with greyhounds and other sight hounds since before George Armstrong Custer. Though a well-developed, long-lived, widespread, and undeniably enthralling tradition, the practice remains little known, even to those living...
Storytelling in Siberia
The Olonkho Epic in a Changing World
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2017
Olonkho , the epic narrative and song tradition of Siberia 's Sakha people, declined to the brink of extinction during the Soviet era. In 2005, UNESCO 's Masterpiece Proclamation sparked a resurgence of interest in olonkho by recognizing its important role in humanity 's oral and intangible heritage....
Warrior Lore
Scandinavian Ballads
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
Thor resorts to cross-dressing in a bid to recover his stolen hammer. The hero Widrick Waylandsson comes face to face with a troll in the forest. A king's daughter is abducted from a convent in rural Sweden. A young fighter has to show off his prowess in skiing and shooting for King Harald Hardrada....
The Seven Sisters of Pleiades
Stories from Around the World
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2005
The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine beautiful stars clustered together in the night...
Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
The nightly appearance of the stars, their arrangement in the sky, their regular risings and settings through the course of the year, have been a source of endless wonder and speculation. But where did the constellations come from and what are the myths associated with them?
Star Myths of the...
Twice Dead
Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases...
by Albert Jack
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
From the best selling author of Red Herrings & White Elephants, Pop Goes the Weasel, Ten Minute Mysteries, Urban Myths & Legends and many more...
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,...
Haunting Experiences
Ghosts in Contemporary Folklore
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2007
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based...
Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2017
Fairy tales seem to be innocent stories, yet they contain profound lessons for those who would dive deep into their waters of meaning. In this book, Marie-Louise von Franz uncovers some of the important lessons concealed in tales from around the world, drawing on the wealth of her knowledge of folklore,...
by Jem Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2019
77 timeless tales from up and down the length of Great Britain – Wales, Scotland, Kernow, England and the Isles – have been retold for the 21st century by curious storyteller Brother Bernard, with a tourist guide to the real location of each folktale included.
This road atlas of myth...