Author: Wolff, Robert Publisher: WingSpan Press Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: The fragments we remember of dreams dreamt in the night are more often than not bits and pieces that rarely make a story. There are modern and ancient books that list an abundance of "meanings" attrib...
Author: Aesop, Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Throughout history fables have been a popular method of giving instruction. Fables contain a short narrative that seeks to illustrate a hidden message. Generally, fables use animals or objects as part...
Author: Scheub, Harold Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The latest work from Harold Scheub, one of the world's leading scholars of African folktales, is the broadest collection yet assembled with tales from the entire continent of Africa, north to south. I...
Author: Lancashire, Terence A. Publisher: Ashgate Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Japanese folk performing arts incorporate a body of entertainments that range from the ritual to the secular. They may be the ritual dances at Shinto shrines performed to summon and entertain deities;...
Author: Green, Miranda Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: warfare was bound up with religion; the killing of animals was a ritual act; in stories, heroes talk to animals in their own language and gods change at will from human to animal form. The book covers...
Author: Ananikian, Mardiros Harootioon Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Armenian mythology was strongly influenced by Zoroastrianism, with deities such as Aramazd, Mihr or Anahit, as well as Assyrian traditions, such as Barsamin, but there are fragmentary traces of native...
Author: Parker, K. Langloh Publisher: ReadHowYouWant Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: A collection of the legends that prevail in the Australian native Noongahburrah tribe. It is claimed as the very first work that collected and brought forward the original tales of the Aborigines. Exh...
Author: Grinnell, George Bird Publisher: Digital Scanning Inc. Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Blackfoot religion, philosophy, literature and ethics were all combined in the stories they told, and the Blackfoot storytellers relied on memory to convey the tales from one generation to the next. ...
Author: Bennett, Gillian Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Because they are so often told as news, contemporary legends force us to reevaluate life as we know it. They confront us with macabre, fantastic, horrific, or hilarious characters and events that seem...
Author: O'Sullivan, Joanne Publisher: Imagine, a Charlesbridge Imprint Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a world where so much can be explained through science and rational thought, it's nice to know there's always a little something that escapes logic-and that no matter how educated we are, most of u...
Author: Zipes, Jack Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative...
Author: Zipes, Jack Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative...
Description: Revolving around the folklores, legends and fairy tales of Wales, this is a highly interesting book. It reflects the attitude and approach of that nation and the romance that generates from and is emb...
Author: N/A Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Twenty-six enchanting tales of Celtic Magic and Legend collected by Joseph Jacobs. Over 50 illustrations. A must have treasury for those interested in Celtic Mythology. Please Note: This book is i...
Author: Meyer, Richard Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Cemeteries house the dead, but gravemarkers are fashioned by the living, who record on them not only their pleasures, sorrows, and hopes for an afterlife, but also more than they realize of their hist...
Author: Harman, Graham Publisher: O-Books Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Platonic myth meets American noir in this haunting collection of philosophical images, from gigantic Ferris wheels to offshore drilling rigs.
Author: Ashby, Muata Publisher: Sema Institute / C.M. Book Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: What are Myth and Culture and what is their importance for understanding the development of societies, human evolution and the search for meaning? What is the purpose of culture and how do cultures ev...
Author: N/A Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Global in scope and multidisciplinary in approach, Creolization as Cultural Creativity explores the expressive forms and performances that come into being when cultures encounter one another. Creoliza...
Author: N/A Publisher: DeProverbio.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Founded in January 1995, De Proverbio (Latin: About the Proverb) is the world's first refereed electronic journal of international proverb studies.
Author: N/A Publisher: DeProverbio.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Founded in January 1995, De Proverbio (Latin: About the Proverb) is the world's first refereed electronic journal of international proverb studies.
Author: N/A Publisher: DeProverbio.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Founded in January 1995, De Proverbio (Latin: About the Proverb) is the world's first refereed electronic journal of international proverb studies.
Author: Roeper, Richard Publisher: Chicago Review Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the con...
Author: Bronner, Simon J. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the...
Author: Bronner, Simon J. Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the...
Author: Thiselton-Dyer, Thomas F. Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Folklore of misogny would probably be a better title for this book. Replete with Victorian stereotypes of women, this book draws on many different traditions from around the world to portray women as ...
Author: Roberts, John Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: To protect their identity and values, Africans enslaved in America transformed various familiar character types to create folk heroes who offered models of behavior both recognizable to them as Africa...
Description: In this third collection of Saskatchewan ghost stories, the reader will find triple the history, mystery, and chills from one of Canada's established paranormal authors. There are historical tales and...
Author: Christensen, Jo-Anne Publisher: Dundurn Group Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In this third collection of Saskatchewan ghost stories, the reader will find triple the history, mystery, and chills from one of Canada's established paranormal authors. There are historical tales and...
Author: Iwasaka, Michiko / Toelken, Barre Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Japanese have ambivalent attitudes toward death, deeply rooted in pre-Buddhist traditions. In this scholarly but accessible work, authors Iwasaka and Toelken show that everyday beliefs and customs...
Author: McCormick, James / Wyatt, Macy Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky Format: Adobe ePUB
Description: In Ghosts of the Bluegrass, James McCormick and Macy Wyatt present stories of Kentucky ghosts past and present. Some of the tales are set in rural areas, but many take place in urban areas such as the...
Author: Rattray, R. Sutherland Publisher: NuVision Publications Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This translation by R. Sutherland Rattray was begun with his five-year study of the Hausa language, written and verbal. The original manuscripts were written in Arabic and transposed into the Hausa ve...
Author: Niles, John Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Homo Narrans explores how human beings shape their world through the stories they tell. Author John D. Niles ponders the nature of the storytelling impulse, the social function of narrative, and the r...
Author: Reider, Noriko Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Oni, ubiquitous supernatural figures in Japanese literature, lore, art, and religion, usually appear as demons or ogres. Characteristically threatening, monstrous creatures with ugly features and fe...
Author: Ozaki, Yei Theodora Publisher: 1st World Library - Literary Society Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami ...
Author: Kinsella, Michael Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researc...
Author: Bacchilega, Cristina Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.
Author: Sims, Martha / Stephens, Martine Publisher: Utah State University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Living Folklore is a comprehensive, straightforward introduction to folklore as it is lived, shared and practiced in contemporary settings. Drawing on examples from diverse American groups and expe...
Author: Levy, Joel, Publisher: Vision Paperbacks Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Lost Histories looks at some of the great mysteries of the past, telling the stories of the tomb raiders and glory seekers who sought to solve them, and examining legends and historical facts to sort ...
Author: Goertzen, Chris Publisher: University Press of Mississippi Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book concerns the aesthetic, political, and socio-political aspects of tourism in southern Mexico, particularly in the state of Oaxaca. Tourists seeking "authenticity" buy crafts and festival tic...
Author: Siebers, Tobin Publisher: Cybereditions Corporation Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Tobin Siebers exposes the role of superstition in unexpected areas of modern life. Combining literary and anthropological insights, his radical interpretations cast new light on the history of narciss...
