Books in category Folklore & Mythology

Folklore of Wells - Being a Study of Water-Worship in East and West

Author: Masani, R. P.
Publisher : Von Elterlein Press
ISBN : 9781406705959

Folk Songs from the Southern Highlands

Author: Henry, Mellinger Edward
Publisher : Waddell Press
ISBN : 9781406705966

Folk Lore Notes: Vol. II - Konkan

Author: Jackson, A. M. T.
Publisher : Vogt Press
ISBN : 9781406705942

Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World (Volume III)

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Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN : 9781410209160
Originally published in 1903, this is an excellent source for an historical perspective on superstitions and folklore. Hundreds of entries are arranged alphabetically within broad subject categories. The original subtitle reads: A comprehensive library of human belief and practice in the mysteries of life through more than six thousand years of experience and progress including the fundamental int

Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World (Volume I)

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Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN : 9781410209146
Originally published in 1903, this is an excellent source for an historical perspective on superstitions and folklore. Hundreds of entries are arranged alphabetically within broad subject categories. The original subtitle reads: A comprehensive library of human belief and practice in the mysteries of life through more than six thousand years of experience and progress including the fundamental int

Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians

Author: Petrovitch, Woislav M.
Publisher : Cosimo Classics
ISBN : 9781602060814
This beautiful, illustrated book recounts the many heroes and legends of Serbian folklore. Beginning with a historical overview of the country's key characters, themes, and superstitions, it also includes prose translations of many Serbian folk ballads. A treat for fans of mythology and fairy tales, and a glimpse into the poetic soul of a country little known to most westerners. WOISLAV M. PETROVI

Encyclopedia of Superstitions, Folklore, and the Occult Sciences of the World (Volume II)

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Publisher : University Press of the Pacific
ISBN : 9781410209153
Originally published in 1903, this is an excellent source for an historical perspective on superstitions and folklore. Hundreds of entries are arranged alphabetically within broad subject categories. The original subtitle reads: A comprehensive library of human belief and practice in the mysteries of life through more than six thousand years of experience and progress including the fundamental int

The High History of the Holy Graal Translated from the French by Sebastian Evans - Volume 2

Author: Sebastian Evans, Evans
Publisher : Kormendi Press
ISBN : 9781408631478

Mind and Body or Mental States and Physical Conditions

Author: Atkinson, William Walker
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780548000984

Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians

Author: Opler, Morris Edward ;French, David
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781436704212
We are dealing here with a living literature, wrote Morris Edward Opler in his preface to Myths and Tales of the Chiricahua Apache Indians, First published in 1942 by the American Folk-Lore Society, this is another classic study by the author of Myths and Tales of the Jicarilla Apache Indians,   Opler conducted field work among the Chiricahuas in the American Southwest, as he had earlier amon

La Llorona

Author: Judith S. Beatty
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN : 9780865344303
La Llorona, the weeping woman, is as well known to the descendants of the Spaniards in the Hispanic world as the bogeyman is to many Anglo cultures. In this book of nearly fifty stories told by people from the Southwestern U.S., the dozens of descriptions of La Llorona include a creature nine feet tall and floating across a creek, a ball of fire rolling in your direction, and a gnomish little pers

Humanly Speaking (Dodo Press)

Author: Crothers, Samuel McChord
Publisher : Dodo Press
ISBN : 9781406586077
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 Dawn of the World Myths and Tales of the Miwok Indians of California

Author: Merriam, C. Hart (EDT)
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9781417915996
1910. The tales contained in this volume were told to Merriam by the Indians of a single stock, the Mewan, the tribes of which are confined to central California and have no known relatives in any part of the world. The myths are related by the old people after the first rains of the winter season, usually in the ceremonial roundhouse and always at night by the dim light of a small flickering fire

Danish Folk Tales

Author: Various
Publisher : Macritchie Press
ISBN : 9781409711841

Eskimo Folk-Tales

Author: Worster, W. W.
Publisher : Horney Press
ISBN : 9781409711186

All Silver and No Brass: An Irish Christmas Mumming

Author: Henry H. Glassie
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN : 9780253304704
Irish Christmas mumming, the subject of this carefully researched and beautifully written book, is approached in Part I through the recollections of four old people of the hamlet of Ballymenone who recall the mumming from their youth. In Part II, the author examines the form and function of the mummers'' play, showing that -- contrary to the theories of some folklorists -- it is not a truncated fr

Lost Language of Symbolism Vols. 1 and 2 (1912)

Author: Harold Bayley
Publisher : Kessinger Publishing
ISBN : 9780766176010
Volume 1 of 2. This work contains an inquiry into the origin of certain letters, words, names, fairy tales, folklore & mythologies. In these studies, Mr. Bayley has taken all symbolism to be his province, but the subjects illustrated are previously uninterpreted printers' marks & paper marks. Most of these signs have entirely lost their primitive significance, and are now used purely for commercia

A History of Irish Fairies

Author: White, Carolyn
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Publishers
ISBN : 9780786715398
In this lovely and informative book, Carolyn White delves into one of the most intriguing aspects of Irish folklore, the other-world of fairies. Whether you're a true believer or not, it's impossible not to be seduced by the details of their universe, as White covers everything from the central question of the numerous varieties of fairies to more detailed inquiries about what they eat, where they

Sea Monsters Unmasked

Author: Lee, Henry
Publisher : Coachwhip Publications
ISBN : 9781930585379
Henry Lee's short work is one of the earliest analyses of sea serpents from a biological perspective. Published in 1883 in conjunction with the International Fisheries Exhibition in London, Henry Lee treats the subject seriously and with enthusiasm. Lee was open to the possibility of large unknown marine animals, but felt that many, if not most, could be explained as sightings of rarely encountere

Handbook of Mixed Methods in Social & Behavioral Research

Author: Tashakkori, Abbas (EDT)/ Teddlie, Charles (EDT)
Publisher : Sage Publications
ISBN : 9780761920731
The Handbook provides both philosophical and practical foundations for using mixed methods in social science inquiry. Theory about mixing methods is nicely balanced and illustrated with concrete examples. All aspects of inquiry are covered from conceptualizing research to selecting methods, analyzing and interpreting data, and reporting findings. The Handbook offers the most comprehensive review o