Folklore Mythology category: 2054 books
by Sabine Baring-Gould
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
FROM the earliest ages of the Church, the advent of the Man of Sin has been looked forward to with terror, and the passages of Scripture relating to him have been studied with solemn awe, lest that day of wrath should come upon the Church unawares. As events in the world's history took place which...
by Arthur Edward Waite
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2019
The Graal legends are comparable to certain distinct literatures with which the theory here put forward will connect them by a twofold consanguinity of purpose. Scholarship had scarcely troubled itself with the great books of Kabalism till it was found or conceived that they could be made to enforce...
King Solomon and the Golden Fish
Tales from the Sephardic Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Orality has been central to the transmission of Sephardic customs, wisdom, and values for centuries. Throughout the Middle Ages, Spanish Jews were known for their linguistic skills, and as translators and storytellers they were the main transmitters of Eastern/Islamic culture to the Christian world....
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...
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...