Folklore Mythology category: 2054 books
by Guy Wetmore Carryl
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
This edition of Grimm Tales Made Gay, contains parodies of many of the Brothers Grimm’s narratives – as never seen before. It includes the fantastic children’s stories of ‘How Little Red Riding Hood Came to be Eaten’, ‘How the Babes in the Wood showed they Couldn’t be Beaten’, ‘How...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Up to now, there has been no complete English-language version of the Russian folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev. This translation is based on L. G. Barag and N. V. Novikov’s edition, widely regarded as the authoritative Russian-language edition. The present edition includes commentaries to each tale...
Grimms' Tales around the Globe
The Dynamics of Their International Reception
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2014
Grimms’ fairy tales are among the best-known stories in the world, but the way they have been introduced into and interpreted by cultures across the globe has varied enormously. In Grimms’ Tales around the Globe, editors Vanessa Joosen and Gillian Lathey bring together scholars from Asia, Europe,...
The Great Mother
An Analysis of the Archetype
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
This landmark book explores the Great Mother as a primordial image of the human psyche. Here the renowned analytical psychologist Erich Neumann draws on ritual, mythology, art, and records of dreams and fantasies to examine how this archetype has been outwardly expressed in many cultures and periods...
Joking Asides
The Theory, Analysis, and Aesthetics of Humor
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Nothing in the understanding of humor is as simple as it might seem. In Joking Asides, Elliott Oring confronts the problems of humor, analyzing the key contemporary approaches to its study and addressing controversial topics with new empirical data and insights.
A folklorist drawn to the study...
The Universal Vampire
Origins and Evolution of a Legend
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
Since the publication of John Polidori’s The Vampyre (1819), the vampire has been a mainstay of Western culture, appearing consistently in literature, art, music (notably opera), film, television, graphic novels and popular culture in general. Even before its entrance into the realm of arts and...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2014
The folktales of A. N. Afanas’ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas’ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are now regarded as the three East Slavic languages,...
by K. Bradley Washburn
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Every civilization, no matter how old, has a body of traditional stories which define its culture heritage. Many of these myths and legends have a direct effect on customs and religious traditions within societies. Comprised of articles originally published on mythsoftheworld.blogspot.com, this volume...
Women Who Fly
Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
From the beautiful apsaras of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, stories of flying women-some carried by wings, others by clouds, rainbows, floating scarves, and flying horses-reveal the perennial fascination with and ambivalence about female power and sexuality. In Women Who...
by Stanislaw Sielicki
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2015
Among the literary sources on the pre-Christian religion and mythology of the Slavs, the Western, German-Danish, and Latin texts, while predominantly highly fragmented and biased, distinguish themselves when compared to the Arab and Old Rus' sources by their relative scrupulousness and less obvious...
History of Rice In India
Mythology, Culture and Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1988
The first major work on the history of a single crop in India, the book deals with rice in total historical, cultural and agricultural aspects that has tremendous economic as well as socio-cultural significance.
Ghost Riders of Upper Egypt
A Study of Spirit Possession
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
In 1933 the German anthropologist Hans Alexander Winkler came across a 'spirit medium' named 'Abd al-Radi in a village near Luxor in Upper Egypt. 'Abd al-Radi was periodically possessed by the ghost of his uncle, and in that state passed messages to those who came to seek help. In an intense study,...
Pole Raising and Speech Making
Modalities of Swedish American Summer Celebration
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
In Pole Raising and Speech Making, author Jennifer Eastman Attebery focuses on the beginnings of the traditional Scandinavian Midsummer celebration and the surrounding spring-to-summer seasonal festivities in the Rocky Mountain West during the height of Swedish immigration to the area—1880–1917.
Combining...
Discover the world differently n°2
Travel with your child and open his/her mind! Brazil, Canada, Romania, Thailand, Egypt, Australia
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2017
Make your children discover the world differently!
Are your children bored in front of the TV or with video games?
What if you were to offer them another way to discover the countries and peoples of our planet?
This little Kids Experience « Discover the world differently » will help you!
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