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Author: Wirt Sikes
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN : 9781592248155
Wirt Sikes's 1881 tome defines and records Welsh fairy legends as they existed -- still vital, alive, not just a mordant mythology but living folklore in that year. Like many texts of the time, it treats the subject mechanically, detailing fairy legends with such care and precision as to leach away a measuyre of the magic. But all the same, there's plenty of magic here: this is the myth that moder
Author: G. Ronald Murphy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195136074
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best-known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettetheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the developing child. In this book, Ronald Murphy takes
Author: Aschwanden, Herbert
Publisher : Mambo Press
ISBN : 9780869224502
Newly reissued, this remains a rare work on the systems of interpretation and meaning, mythological traditions and realities of the Karanga people in Zimbabwe. The author considers the Karanga's cosmology, as a system of psychological and biological expressions, and in relation to mythological feeling and thinking. Topics covered include: creation myths; mythologies of the symbols of life and deat
Author: Cumming, R. D.
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406586046
Robert Dalziel Cumming, also wrote as Skookum Chuck, was a Canadian author and poet. His works include: Songs of a Sick Tum Tum (1912), Shookum Chuck Fables (1915), Paul Pero (1928), Sailing on to Iceland (1937) and Across Canada by Rail (1938). Once upon a time in a small village in Bruce County, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, there lived a man who was destined to establish a precedent.
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Publisher : Sophia Perennis et Universalis
ISBN : 9781597310703
Mulla Nasrudin, called Hodja Nasrudin in India and Turkey, is the major comic figure in Islamic folklore. Both 'mulla' and 'hodja' mean master, with the connotation teacher; Nasrudin, if he ever existed, was an educated man. The tales of Nasrudin were never told by any great Sufi masters, but somehow the common man began to identify with him. And as various modern writers have pointed out, the tal
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Publisher : Sophia Perennis et Universalis
ISBN : 9781597310710
Mulla Nasrudin, called Hodja Nasrudin in India and Turkey, is the major comic figure in Islamic folklore. Both 'mulla' and 'hodja' mean master, with the connotation teacher; Nasrudin, if he ever existed, was an educated man. The tales of Nasrudin were never told by any great Sufi masters, but somehow the common man began to identify with him. And as various modern writers have pointed out, the tal
Author: Davis, Frederick Hadland
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN : 9781602063693
Nowadays Japan is seen as a modern and technologically innovative place, but in 1913, when Myths and Legends of Japan was first published, its culture seemed strange and exotic to the average Westerner. With this collection, F. Hadland Davis uses folklore to bring Japanese civilization to life and introduce this alien society to a Western audience. Davis arranges myths into 31 categories, includin
Author: Weston, Jessie Laidlay
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596053236
From Ritual to Romance is a landmark study of anthropology and folklore that examines the roots of the King Arthur-Holy Grail legends. Jessie L. Weston's revolutionary theory holds that most elements of the Grail story are actually the remnants of incredibly old fertility rites -- with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. Drawing on James George Frazer's seminal works on folklore, magi
Author: Karl Wiebe
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781592867806
PASS THIS ALONG TO SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT! Creepy criminals in the back seat of your station wagon, gangsters flashing their headlights, hypodermic needles on the movie theatre seats ... are you safe to leave your house? Lock the doors, play it safe, and check your emails ... but be wary of the computer viruses out there, ready to destroy your life with the click of the mouse! Why go to a boring j
Author: Edith Howes
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766159198
Fairy tales from southern seas. Long before Columbus braved the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America, those intrepid navigators, the Maoris, in their tree-hollowed canoes voyaged and revoyaged the Pacific, compared with the Atlantic is but a narrow sea. From their tropical shores, they migrated to tropic islands. In successive migrations, about the 14th century, several tribes sought the lovely i
Author: Westervelt, W. D.
Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN : 9781410207296
The Maui story probably contains a larger number of unique and ancient myths than that of any other legendary character in the mythology of any nation.There are three centers for these legends, New Zealand in the south, Hawaii in the north, and the Tahitian group including the Hervey Islands in the east. In each of these groups of islands, separated by thousands of miles, there are the same legend
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Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN : 9780803279384
Charles F. Lummis's profound understanding of Indian and Spanish culture in the American Southwest is reflected in this collection of thirty-two myths centering around the Pueblo of Isleta on the Rio Grande. In adapting these traditional oral tales, Lummis drew on his experience of living at Isleta and his familiarity with the native language. originally published in 1894, Pueblo Indian Folk-Stori
Author: William W. Dunmire
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292705647
Gardens of New Spain tells the fascinating story of the diffusion of plants, gardens, agriculture, and cuisine from late medieval Spain to the colonial frontier of Hispanic America. Beginning in the Old World, William Dunmire describes how Spain came to adopt plants and their foods from the Fertile Crescent, Asia, and Africa. Crossing the Atlantic, he first examines the agricultural scene of Pre-C
Author: Heaney, Marie
Publisher : Faber & Faber Inc
ISBN : 9780571175185
In her colloquial retelling of these stories, Marie Heaney conveys the full dramatic and poetic power of one of Europe's oldest narrative traditions. The most important tales from the three major pre-Christian sequences - the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle and the Finn Cycle - are followed by lives of the saints Patrick, Brigid and Columcille, and the result is a uniquely accessible compendi
Author: A. W. Hall
Publisher : Fredonia Books (NL)
ISBN : 9781410103291
Although some of these tales bear a similarity to the well-known standard fairy tales, which have been the delight of countless children for many generations, they all possess an originality peculiarly their own.It is remarkable too that, whereas in most southern legends it is always the prince who delivers the princess and performs the heroic and valorous deeds, in these Icelandic tales it is for
Author: Mair, Victor H. (EDT);Mair, Victor H.
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521247610
Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618?907) and Five Dynasties (907?959) periods, the texts were discovered early this century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloqui
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Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN : 9780803281714
The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief''s daughter, the pet crane who saves a family2;these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths and Legends of the Sioux, Marie L. McLaughlin, born to a white father and a mixed-blood Sioux mother, heard these stories while growing up among the eastern Sioux of Minnesota. When she recorded the
Author: Segal, Robert A. (EDT)
Publisher : Polity Press
ISBN : 9780631215158
This Reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Failed as well as successful heroes are represented, as are anti-heroes as well as conventional heroes. Hero Myths offers not onl
Author: Paredes, Americo/ Bauman, Richard (EDT)
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292765641
In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Americo Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements. In Chicano studies, he stands as one of the premier exponents. Paredes''s books are widely known and easily available, but his scholarly articles ar
Author: Alexander Porteous
Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596051058
Sacred Groves and Tree Nymphs, Yule Logs and Divining Rods, Wild Huntsmen and Wood-Wives . . . Delve into an enchanting exploration of the magic and mystery of forest realms in this scholarly and highly readable work. Fact and fable sit sid Since its original publication in 1928, this lively guide to the folklore of the forest around the world has also appeared under such titles as The Forest in F
British Goblins: Welsh Folklore, Fairy Mythology, Legends, and Traditions
Author: Wirt SikesPublisher : Wildside Press
ISBN : 9781592248155
Wirt Sikes's 1881 tome defines and records Welsh fairy legends as they existed -- still vital, alive, not just a mordant mythology but living folklore in that year. Like many texts of the time, it treats the subject mechanically, detailing fairy legends with such care and precision as to leach away a measuyre of the magic. But all the same, there's plenty of magic here: this is the myth that moder
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The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
Author: G. Ronald MurphyPublisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN : 9780195136074
The fairy tales collected by the brothers Grimm are among the best-known and most widely-read stories in western literature. In recent years commentators such as Bruno Bettetheim have, usually from a psychological perspective, pondered the underlying meaning of the stories, why children are so enthralled by them, and what effect they have on the developing child. In this book, Ronald Murphy takes
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Karanga Mythology
Author: Aschwanden, Herbert Publisher : Mambo Press
ISBN : 9780869224502
Newly reissued, this remains a rare work on the systems of interpretation and meaning, mythological traditions and realities of the Karanga people in Zimbabwe. The author considers the Karanga's cosmology, as a system of psychological and biological expressions, and in relation to mythological feeling and thinking. Topics covered include: creation myths; mythologies of the symbols of life and deat
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Skookum Chuck Fables (Dodo Press)
Author: Cumming, R. D. Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406586046
Robert Dalziel Cumming, also wrote as Skookum Chuck, was a Canadian author and poet. His works include: Songs of a Sick Tum Tum (1912), Shookum Chuck Fables (1915), Paul Pero (1928), Sailing on to Iceland (1937) and Across Canada by Rail (1938). Once upon a time in a small village in Bruce County, Province of Ontario, Dominion of Canada, there lived a man who was destined to establish a precedent.
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Tales of Nasrudin: Keys to Fulfillment
Author: Publisher : Sophia Perennis et Universalis
ISBN : 9781597310703
Mulla Nasrudin, called Hodja Nasrudin in India and Turkey, is the major comic figure in Islamic folklore. Both 'mulla' and 'hodja' mean master, with the connotation teacher; Nasrudin, if he ever existed, was an educated man. The tales of Nasrudin were never told by any great Sufi masters, but somehow the common man began to identify with him. And as various modern writers have pointed out, the tal
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Tales of Nasrudin: Keys to Fulfillment
Author: Publisher : Sophia Perennis et Universalis
ISBN : 9781597310710
Mulla Nasrudin, called Hodja Nasrudin in India and Turkey, is the major comic figure in Islamic folklore. Both 'mulla' and 'hodja' mean master, with the connotation teacher; Nasrudin, if he ever existed, was an educated man. The tales of Nasrudin were never told by any great Sufi masters, but somehow the common man began to identify with him. And as various modern writers have pointed out, the tal
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Myths and Legends of Japan
Author: Davis, Frederick Hadland Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN : 9781602063693
Nowadays Japan is seen as a modern and technologically innovative place, but in 1913, when Myths and Legends of Japan was first published, its culture seemed strange and exotic to the average Westerner. With this collection, F. Hadland Davis uses folklore to bring Japanese civilization to life and introduce this alien society to a Western audience. Davis arranges myths into 31 categories, includin
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From Ritual to Romance
Author: Weston, Jessie Laidlay Publisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596053236
From Ritual to Romance is a landmark study of anthropology and folklore that examines the roots of the King Arthur-Holy Grail legends. Jessie L. Weston's revolutionary theory holds that most elements of the Grail story are actually the remnants of incredibly old fertility rites -- with the lance and the cup serving as sexual symbols. Drawing on James George Frazer's seminal works on folklore, magi
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This Is Not a Hoax
Author: Karl WiebePublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781592867806
PASS THIS ALONG TO SOMEONE YOU CARE ABOUT! Creepy criminals in the back seat of your station wagon, gangsters flashing their headlights, hypodermic needles on the movie theatre seats ... are you safe to leave your house? Lock the doors, play it safe, and check your emails ... but be wary of the computer viruses out there, ready to destroy your life with the click of the mouse! Why go to a boring j
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Long Bright Land (1929)
Author: Edith HowesPublisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766159198
Fairy tales from southern seas. Long before Columbus braved the Atlantic Ocean and discovered America, those intrepid navigators, the Maoris, in their tree-hollowed canoes voyaged and revoyaged the Pacific, compared with the Atlantic is but a narrow sea. From their tropical shores, they migrated to tropic islands. In successive migrations, about the 14th century, several tribes sought the lovely i
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Legends of Maui
Author: Westervelt, W. D.Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN : 9781410207296
The Maui story probably contains a larger number of unique and ancient myths than that of any other legendary character in the mythology of any nation.There are three centers for these legends, New Zealand in the south, Hawaii in the north, and the Tahitian group including the Hervey Islands in the east. In each of these groups of islands, separated by thousands of miles, there are the same legend
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Pueblo Indian Folk-Stories
Author: Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN : 9780803279384
Charles F. Lummis's profound understanding of Indian and Spanish culture in the American Southwest is reflected in this collection of thirty-two myths centering around the Pueblo of Isleta on the Rio Grande. In adapting these traditional oral tales, Lummis drew on his experience of living at Isleta and his familiarity with the native language. originally published in 1894, Pueblo Indian Folk-Stori
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Gardens of New Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America
Author: William W. DunmirePublisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292705647
Gardens of New Spain tells the fascinating story of the diffusion of plants, gardens, agriculture, and cuisine from late medieval Spain to the colonial frontier of Hispanic America. Beginning in the Old World, William Dunmire describes how Spain came to adopt plants and their foods from the Fertile Crescent, Asia, and Africa. Crossing the Atlantic, he first examines the agricultural scene of Pre-C
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Over Nine Waves
Author: Heaney, MariePublisher : Faber & Faber Inc
ISBN : 9780571175185
In her colloquial retelling of these stories, Marie Heaney conveys the full dramatic and poetic power of one of Europe's oldest narrative traditions. The most important tales from the three major pre-Christian sequences - the Mythological Cycle, the Ulster Cycle and the Finn Cycle - are followed by lives of the saints Patrick, Brigid and Columcille, and the result is a uniquely accessible compendi
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Icelandic Fairy Tales
Author: A. W. HallPublisher : Fredonia Books (NL)
ISBN : 9781410103291
Although some of these tales bear a similarity to the well-known standard fairy tales, which have been the delight of countless children for many generations, they all possess an originality peculiarly their own.It is remarkable too that, whereas in most southern legends it is always the prince who delivers the princess and performs the heroic and valorous deeds, in these Icelandic tales it is for
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Tun-Huang Popular Narratives
Author: Mair, Victor H. (EDT);Mair, Victor H. Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN : 9780521247610
Tun-huang Popular Narratives presents authoritative translations of four vernacular Chinese stories, taken from fragmentary texts usually referred to as pien-wen or 'transformation texts'. Dating from the late T'ang (618?907) and Five Dynasties (907?959) periods, the texts were discovered early this century in a cave at Tun-huang, in Chinese Central Asia. However, written down in an early colloqui
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Myths and Legends of the Sioux
Author: Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
ISBN : 9780803281714
The timid rabbit who outwits the tyrannical bear, the wonderful turtle who marries the Indian chief''s daughter, the pet crane who saves a family2;these and many other legendary figures appear in Myths and Legends of the Sioux, Marie L. McLaughlin, born to a white father and a mixed-blood Sioux mother, heard these stories while growing up among the eastern Sioux of Minnesota. When she recorded the
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Hero Myths; A Reader
Author: Segal, Robert A. (EDT)Publisher : Polity Press
ISBN : 9780631215158
This Reader collects 25 stories of heroes of all kinds from around the world. Included are both non-Western and Western, female and male, modern and ancient, young and adult, lowly and noble, comic and tragic, national and universal, and historical and fictional heroes. Failed as well as successful heroes are represented, as are anti-heroes as well as conventional heroes. Hero Myths offers not onl
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Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
Author: Paredes, Americo/ Bauman, Richard (EDT)Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN : 9780292765641
In an illustrious career spanning over forty years, Americo Paredes has often set the standard for scholarship and writing in folklore and Chicano studies. In folklore, he has been in the vanguard of important theoretical and methodological movements. In Chicano studies, he stands as one of the premier exponents. Paredes''s books are widely known and easily available, but his scholarly articles ar
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The Lore of the Forest
Author: Alexander PorteousPublisher : Unknown
ISBN : 9781596051058
Sacred Groves and Tree Nymphs, Yule Logs and Divining Rods, Wild Huntsmen and Wood-Wives . . . Delve into an enchanting exploration of the magic and mystery of forest realms in this scholarly and highly readable work. Fact and fable sit sid Since its original publication in 1928, this lively guide to the folklore of the forest around the world has also appeared under such titles as The Forest in F
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