Books in category Folklore & Mythology

Old Deccan Days Or, Hindoo Fairy Legends Current in Southern India

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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781430458487
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Bygone Beliefs: Being a Series of Excursions in the Byways of Thought (Large Print Edition)

Author: Redgrove, H. Stanley
Publisher : Biblio Bazaar
ISBN : 9781426401657
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Why Oracles Are Silent

Author: Tom Gelinske
Publisher : toExcel
ISBN : 9781583483978
This book traces the belief in oracles back to Orpheus, the legendary poet-prince, who traveled with Jason, charmed the sirens, and descended into Hades trying to save his Eurydice. Orpheus is one of those figures like Theseus, somewhat historical, fascinating, the subject of 27 operas. Orpheus may be the first Kristos, 'anointed one, ' said to be a pioneer, a preacher(of apparently very persuasiv

Old English Fairy Tales

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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781428628403

British Popular Customs - Present and Past - Illustrating the Social and Domestic Manners of the People

Author: Dyer, T. F.
Publisher : Foley Press
ISBN : 9781406778991

Old Rabbit, the Voodoo, and Other Sorcerers

Author: Owen, Mary Alicia
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN : 9781602066670
This remarkable collection takes us more deeply into the tradition of folklore than those which are made on the Grimm principle of 'pleasing tales for the nursery'. It is entertaining and amusing, but nothing has been sacrificed to the latter element, nor are the narrators of the tales made more important than the subject. Illustrated.

Eastern Stories and Legends

Author: Shedlock, Marie L.
Publisher : Kimball Press
ISBN : 9781409717935
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Dragons and Dragon Lore

Author: Ernest Ingersoll
Publisher : Book Tree
ISBN : 9781585090211
This rare and fascinating book is filled with incredible information about the oldest mythological story in the world -- that of the dragon. Similar stories exist worldwise, in all cultures, of this elusive and powerful creature. The author, Ernest Ingersoll, has slated that the dragon is connected with the powers and doings of the earliest gods, and like them is vague, changeable and contradictor

Folk-Lore from the Dominican Republic

Author: Andrade, Manuel J.
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548092835
The Preliminary Matter Discusses The Chief Informants, The Language And Vocabulary Used And The Scope Of The Collection. 304 Tales And Proverbs, Riddles And Customs.

By the Christmas Fire (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press)

Author: Crothers, Samuel McChord
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406586060
Samuel McChord Crothers (1857-1927) was an American Unitarian Universalist minister with The First Parish in Cambridge. He was a popular essayist. He graduated from Wittenberg College in 1873. In 1874, he graduated from College of New Jersey. After earning a divinity degree at Union Theological Seminary in 1877, he became a Presbyterian minister. He resigned in 1881 and converted to the Unitarian

The Age of Fable

Author: Thomas Bulfinch, Bulfinch
Publisher : Bakhsh Press
ISBN : 9781408629543

Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands

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Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432605858

The Book of Werewolves

Author: Baring-Gould, S.
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432608330

Pepper and Salt or Seasoning for Young Folk

Author: Pyle, Howard
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781432601065

Fairy Tales from the Swedish

Author: Braekstad, H. L.
Publisher : Hayne Press
ISBN : 9781409712763
FAIRY TALES FROM THE SWEDISH BARON G. DJURKLOU. This book contains and interesting and characteristic collection of Swedish Folk and Fairy Tales. They are written in the dialect of the Swedish peasantry and therefore have presented difficulties in the wy of translation into other languages. In this present English version the translator has tried to retain as far as possible the humourous and coll

The Age of Fable

Author: Bullfinch, Thomas
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN : 9781434492616
The one essential book of classic myth and legend.

The Age of Fable

Author: Bullfinch, Thomas
Publisher : Wildside Press
ISBN : 9781434492609
The one essential book of classic myth and legend.

Eastern Stories and Legends

Author: Shedlock, Marie L.
Publisher : Moulton Press
ISBN : 9781409712206

Folk-Lore and Legends

Author: Anon
Publisher : Hildreth Press
ISBN : 9781409712855
Folk-Lore and Legends. ORIENTAL. The East is rich in Folklore, and the lorist is not troubled to discover material. The reader of these tales will observe many points of similarity between them and the popular fictions of the west- similarity of thought and incident- and nothing, perhaps speaks more eloquently the universal brotherhood of man than this oneness of folk-ficton. At the same time, the

Folk-Lore and Legends

Author: Anon
Publisher : Holley Press
ISBN : 9781409712879
Folk-Lore and Legends. RUSSIAN AND POLISH. The collection of tales in this little volume are selections made from the Russian chap-book literature, and from the works of various Russian and Polish collectors of Folklore. There is little doubt that the chap-book tales are of foreign origin, but since Russia and Poland are the countries in which these tales have found their home, and since they have