Folklore studies / Study of myth Books
Arcadia Publishing Legends Lore and Secrets of Western New York
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing Legends Lore of Western Pennsylvania
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£19.19
Arcadia Publishing Forgotten Tales of Florida
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£15.29
Arcadia Publishing Delmarva Legends Lore
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£18.69
Red Wheel/Weiser Dark Fairies
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£12.34
Red Wheel/Weiser The Lost Colonies of Ancient America: A
Book SynopsisWas America truly unknown to the outside world until Christopher Columbus "discovered" it in 1492? Could a people gifted enough to raise the Great Pyramid more than four thousand years ago have lacked the skills necessary to build a ship capable of crossing the Atlantic? Did the Phoenicians, who circumnavigated the African continent in 600 BC, never consider sailing farther? Were the Vikings, the most fearless warriors and seafarers of all time, terrified at the prospect of a transoceanic voyage? If so, how are we to account for an Egyptian temple accidentally unearthed by Tennessee Valley Authority workers in 1935? What is a beautifully crafted metal plate with the image of a Phoenician woman doing in the Utah desert? And who can explain the discovery of Viking houses and wharves excavated outside Boston? These enigmas are but a tiny fraction of the abundant physical proof for Old World visitors to the American continent hundreds and thousands of years ago. In addition, Sumerians, Minoans, Romans, Celts, ancient Hebrews, Indonesians, Africans, Chinese, Japanese, Welsh, Irish and the Knights Templar all made their indelible, if neglected, mark on American land. Unlike any other book on the subject, THE LOST COLONIES OF ANCIENT AMERICA not only describes each of these various peoples who influenced pre-Columbian history, but it, also, offers fresh evidence demonstrating the extent of their impact on the American continent.
£15.19
Red Wheel/Weiser Viral Mythology: How the Truth of the Ancients
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£12.34
University of Alaska Press Qanemcit Amllertut/Many Stories to Tell: Tales of
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£999.99
Michigan State University Press Oedipus; or, The Legend of a Conqueror
Book SynopsisMarie Delcourt’s brilliant study of the Oedipus legend, an unjustly neglected monument of twentieth-century classical scholarship published in 1944 and issued here for the first time in English translation, bridges the gap between Carl Robert’s influential Oidipus (1915) and the work of Lowell Edmunds seventy years later.Delcourt studies the legend in its various aspects, six episodes that have equal weight and that stress the same themes: greatness, conquest, domination, the right to rule - all of them bound up with the idea of kingship. Together they form the biography of a Theban hero, the fullest account that has come down to us about the prehistory of sovereign power among the ancient Greeks. Delcourt does not suppose that Oedipus, or indeed any other Greek hero, was a historical figure. The personality familiar to us from the plays of the tragedians of the fifth century - our oldest source, and a very late one - was the result of their extraordinary artistry in linking together themes rooted in very ancient social and religious rites that in the interval had come to describe the feats of Oedipus, then his life, and finally his character. It was in order to explain these rites, whose meaning had ceased to be understood, that myths and legends were invented in the first place., Delcourt argues, is the archetype of all heroes of essentially (if not exclusively) ritual origin, whose acts were prior to their person. This is a very different = and far more complex - Oedipus than the one rather implausibly imagined by Freud. More generally, the origin and transmission of the Oedipus legend tells us a great deal about the strength and persistence of public memories in prehistoric societies.
£999.99
Parkhurst Brothers Publishers Inc Beyond the Sword Maiden: A Storyteller's
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£999.99
Arcadia Publishing Haunted PutInBay Haunted America
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£18.69
Arcadia Publishing Haunted Summerwind A Ghostly History of a
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£18.69
Creative Paperbacks Unicorns
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£9.49
Creative Paperbacks Vampires
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£9.49
Red Wheel/Weiser The Slenderman Mysteries: An Internet Urban
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£12.34
Black Rabbit Books The Boy Who Cried Wolf Retold
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£9.49
Black Rabbit Books The Tortoise and the Hare Retold
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£9.49
Black Rabbit Books The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing Retold
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£10.44
Black Rabbit Books How to Find Dragons
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£10.44
Black Rabbit Books How to Find Unicorns
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£10.44
Black Rabbit Books How to Find Werewolves
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£10.44
Utah State University Press The Consolations of Humor and Other Folklore
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£999.99
Utah State University Press Adventures in the PlayRitual Continuum
Book SynopsisThe junctions between play and ritual are many and complex. Play is for fun and joy, but it also demands a total commitment and serious respect for rules. Rituals involve nearly endless varieties of social arrangements and can truly transform people, but they also include improvisation, testing, and pretending.
£999.99
Rockridge Press World Mythology for Beginners: 50 Timeless Tales
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£18.99
Amicus Ink Curious about Dragons
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£10.44
Amicus Ink Curious about Leprechauns
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£10.44
Amicus Ink Curious about Mermaids
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£10.44
Amicus Ink Curious about Unicorns
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£10.44
Amicus Ink Curious about Werewolves
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£10.44
MacIntyre Purcell Publishing Inc. Forerunners: Harbingers of Death in Nova Scotia
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£18.95
Reaktion Books White Devil The Werewolf in European Culture
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£999.99
Reaktion Books The Rise of the Vampire
Book SynopsisIt seems that vampires have captured the popular imagination for centuries. Today they are a worldwide phenomenon, featuring in everything from reggae songs to Japanese and Korean horror films. In The Rise of the Vampire, Erik Butler explains our fascination with the undead by examining folklore, literature, film, television, journalism and music.
£999.99
Birlinn General A Human Love Story: Journeys to the Heart
Book SynopsisMatt Hopwood set off with just a small bag and a walking stick, no possessions and an open mind to walk many hundreds of miles the length and breadth of the country. He relied entirely on the generosity of strangers for shelter and asked people to tell him their transforming stories. They did. All of these deeply enthralling, profoundly honest stories weave a web of tenderness, connection, compassion and community. For some people their love story will span decades and tell a tale of romantic love evolving through the passing years. Others’ stories express fleeting moments of connection, care, concern. Most love stories are marked by sadness and loss. Some stories are concerned with maternal and paternal love, others with a love of place, a visceral connection with spirit through landscape. Love stories also connect deeply with our identities, in how we belong and how we are welcomed in society. Each story is different. Each beautiful. Each valuable.
£999.99
O'Brien Press Ltd Ulster Fairytales and Legends
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£16.43
Reaktion Books Tales of the Earth: Native North American
Book SynopsisTales of the Earth is a comprehensive yet concise overview of Native American mythologies. After outlining theories of the origins of Native North Americans, David Leeming considers the creation myths of many tribes, emphasizing four commonly occurring figures: the Great Spirit, the trickster, the goddess and the hero. Leeming suggests that in addition to these figures, Native American mythologies have in common a deep reverence for the earth, and for community responsibility as opposed to individualism - tenets that stand in stark contrast to the concepts of exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny that characterize the United States, a nation that was built on ancient tribal land.Trade Review"In Tales of the Earth, Leeming discusses how key characters common to the creation narratives of Indigenous North Americans, created the living, sacred landscapes to which Native American remain tied today. Importantly, he highlights how these narratives and the relationships to land they make possible often differ from Nonnative understandings of creation and the human place within it. Leeming does all this in an engaging, accessible style." * Ken Lokensgard, Assistant Director of the Center for Native American Research and Collaboration, Washington State University *
£999.99
Archaeopress Le gai sçavoir: Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Loïc
Book SynopsisThese vibrant Mélanges bring together texts by colleagues and friends to celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec. Through the diversity of its contributions, this book bears witness to the transdisciplinarity, rigour and benevolence that characterise this great scientist. From epistemological reflections to scientific studies, memories, drawings and poems, each author makes his or her own contribution to this passionate and fascinating figure. This collection is an ode to curiosity, open-mindedness and scientific rigour, values that Jean-Loïc Le Quellec has passionately defended throughout his career.Table of ContentsQue veut dire « Tout est document » ? Voyez l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – François-Xavier Fauvelle Introduction – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy et Patrice Lajoye Au globe-trotteur polygrotte – Christophe Darmangeat La vie et l’œuvre de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Julien d’Huy, Frédérique Duquesnoy, Patrice Lajoye Préhistoire - Prehistory Peut-on effacer les images ? – François Bon Un mythe paléolithique à la Ségognole à Noisy-sur-École (Seine-et-Marne) – Alexandre Cantin, Médard Thiry et Boris Valentin « À ce stade, le mythologue prend le relais de l’archéologue » : archéologie et cosmogonie d’une femme-poisson néolithique – Vincent Charpentier et Julien d’Huy Les mythes de la femme préhistorique – Claudine Cohen Images rupestres et narrations – Claudia Defrasne Comment prouver une migration ? – Jean-Paul Demoule De Séfar à Cosquer, itinérances rupestres – Frédérique Duquesnoy Figurations originales d’habitats sédentaires à Égénéteï (Tagant, Mauritanie) – Yves Gauthier Un désert, une rencontre – Michel Grenet Danser au néolithique – Jean Guilaine Tadi dia Mbenza : culte de Mbenza et grottes ornées – Geoffroy Heimlich « Dead or alive ? » Considérations sur des animaux prédynastiques égyptiens représentés verticalement – Stan Hendrickx et Frank Förster Taches aveugles : vision critique – Romain Lahaye Les militaires romains dans le Sahara d’Auguste à Domitien – Yann le Bohec La chasse néolithique à la baleine en Corée – Sangmog Lee Les gravures rupestres de Tamgart Isserdane (Akka, Maroc) – Faysal Lemjidi Rendez-vous à l’ombre. Souvenirs d’un lieu particulier dans le Mesāk Settafet (Libye) – Fabio Maestrucci et Gianna Giannelli Singuliers amas – Grégor Marchand L’Égypte, entre déserts et vallée. Un cheminement singulier vers l’économie de production – Béatrix Midant-Reynes, François Briois et Tiphaine Dachy De quelques peintures d’Ozan Éhéré (Tasile-n-Ăžžǝr, Algérie) – Amel Mostefaï-Ithier Trois suppressions critiques et une fiction mythologique – Dominique Pasqualini À propos d’un petit livre jaune – Romain Pigeaud Le collectif des Magdaléniens du Lussac-Angles et ses représentations pariétales : une évolution continue – Geneviève Pinçon Les stèles de Gadiloméda (Éthiopie) – Bertrand Poissonnier Des Martiens dans la selva : fantasmes archéologiques d’Amazonie – Stéphen Rostain Proof of Concept: Radiocarbon Dating Both Organic and Mineral Carbon-Containing Compounds Using Plasma-Chemical Carbon Dioxide Extraction – Marvin W. Rowe, Eric Blinman, Shelby A. Jones and Caroline Welte Transgressions vers les mythologies des premiers hommes modernes – Ludovic Slimak Rites, Wrongs and Analogies: Religion and Ritual as Explanation of Prehistoric Rock Art – Anne Solomon and Paul Bahn Therianthropes, Animals and “Symbolic Wounds” in Southern African Rock Art: An Evolutionary Development Hypothesis (EDH) – J. Francis Thackeray Mythologie et folklore - Mythology and Folklore Comparative Mythology and the Human Past – Yuri E. Berezkin Mélusine, les fées au bain et l’au-delà dans les romans médiévaux – Françoise Clier-Colombani Devenir propriétaire en construisant sa maison en une nuit sur un communal : étude d’un fait de folklore juridique – Raymond Delavigne Le loup ne peut pas être domestiqué : une rumeur du XIXe siècle en Poitou-Charentes et ses connexions – Frédéric Dumerchat « Par les admirables qualitez qu’on a vues en elles… » L’érynge : de l’herbe aux cent têtes à la racine gorgonéenne – Annick Fédensieu La Chauve-souris – Galina Kabakova Des marteaux de saints – Patrice Lajoye Pour une casuistique de l’action à distance par le regard – Jacques E. Merceron Arruns fils de Porsenna, « hypostase » de Vidura ? – Marcel Meulder Luzel et la fileuse – Françoise Morvan Les Navi, démones de la naissance en Macédoine – Anastasia Ortenzio Quelques traditions étiologiques concernant la Shannon et leurs ramifications mythologiques – Guillaume Oudaer Sitologie des bachelleries – Bernard Robreau Trois affaires non résolues à l’ombre d’un poirier – Geoffroy de Saulieu. Dionysos et Alexandre : des retrouvailles au bout du monde – Pierre Sauzeau Éléments de culture sémito-indo-européenne – Bernard Sergent Le dessous des cartes : mythologie comparée – Marc Thuillard À propos des sorcières masquées : une hypothèse à l’occasion des termes slaves provenant de larva et masca – Stamatis Zochios Anthropologie - Anthropology L’harmonie universelle est une vaste toile d’araignée – Brenno Boccadoro Partage et Ostension : réseaux sociaux et expressions collectives – Véronique Campion-Vincent Les alphabets libyques. Emprunt et création – Dominique Casajus Le Temps du mythe – Philippe Descola Écologie et extrême droite : Lectures des « racines historiques de notre crise écologique » de Lynn White – Stéphane François Sur l’apport épistémique de Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, anthropologue et préhistorien – Philippe Grosos Entretien avec Roberte Hamayon – Roberte Hamayon Des Martiens dans la montagne bourbonnaise : nouvelles chroniques d’archéologie romantique – Damien Karbovnik Il n’y a de science que critique : esprit critique et rupture avec le sens commun – Bernard Lahire La Terre creuse, entre caverne originelle aryenne et mythologie politique transnationale – Nicolas Lebourg De la beauté des marais, des îles et des reflets vocaliques sur l’eau : retour sur la phonologie du maraîchin – Jean Léo Léonard et Julien Fulcrand Fin d’une prophétie ou prophétie de la fin ? La prophétie des papes de saint Malachie – Jean-Bruno Renard Tabula gratulatoria Nous aurions pu ne pas te rencontrer – Jean-Pierre Baron et Thomas Tully Au Sahara, les fleurs, les arbres… – Anne-Catherine Benchelah bouche d’ombre – Bernadète Bidaude Les pantoufles et le violon – François Bon La globalizzazione dei vandali – Donatella Calati e Roberta Simonis Une peinture à Jabbâren – Marie-Anne Civrac Un clin d’œil – Sylvia Lucie Eva Donon Sur le chemin d’Iherǝn – Quentin Faugeras Du Collège de France au désert, un confinement avant l’heure – Pauline de Flers, en union avec Philippe de Flers Évocation – équipe éditoriale de la Grande Oreille Chacun cherche son chat – Michel Hindenoch Ti-n Tekelt, 2004, site à rituel encore utilisé : clin d’œil à l’anthropologue – Nicole Honoré Un voyage à Taǧǝlahin – Souvenirs de Suzanne et Gérard Lachaud À la rencontre des violoneux – Denis Le Vraux Tabula gratulatoria – Michel Lorblanchet Le troupeau en mouvement – Marie Maka L’ocre rouge – André Markowicz Q Un théranthrope à Imərda – Marie-Jean Nézondet Jean-Loïc Le Quellec et le muséum d’Histoire naturelle de La Rochelle – Elise Patole-Edoumba Témoignage – Myriam Pellicane « Beetles and Rock Art in Libya » : archéologie, environnement et exploration pétrolière dans le Sahara libyen – Jean-Claude Ringenbach Aux noces de ton frère le vent – Thierry Robin Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, militant de la culture du peuple – Jany Rouger Jean-Loïc Le Quellec and GIS in South African Archaeology – Karim Sadr Hommage à Jean-Loïc Le Quellec – Marco Savini - AARS Laisser passer un peu de lumière – François-Xavier Vives A curious panel of therianthropes from Iherǝn – András Zboray Autrices et auteurs / Authors
£125.09
Octopus Publishing Group Queer Heroes of Myth and Legend: A celebration of
Book SynopsisHidden in the margins of history books, classical literature, and thousands of years of stories, myths and legends, through to contemporary literature, TV and film, there is a diverse and other-worldly super community of queer heroes to discover, learn from, and celebrate. Be captivated by stories of forbidden love like Patroclus & Achilles (explored in Madeleine Miller's bestseller Song of Achilles), join the cult of Antinous (inspiration for Oscar Wilde), get down with pansexual god Set in Egyptian myth, and fall for Zimbabwe's trans God Mawi. And from modern pop-culture, through Dan Jones's witty, upbeat style, learn more about 90s fan obsessions Xena: Warrior Princess and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Neil Gaiman's American Gods and the BBC's Doctor Who. Queer Heroes of Myth & Legend brings to life characters who are romantic, brave, mysterious, and always fantastical. It is a magnificent celebration of queerness through the ages in all its legendary glory.
£16.14
Gill Books The Big Book of Celtic Gods and Goddesses
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£13.84
Four Courts Press Ltd Life, lore and song / 'Binneas an tSiansa':
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£70.66
Thunder Bay Press Michigan The Crooked Tree: Indian Legends of Northern
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£14.36
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Proverbs of Africa
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£18.99
Phanes Press,U.S. Star Myths of the Greeks and Romans: A Sourcebook
Book SynopsisThe nightly appearence of the stars has been a source of endless wonder and speculation. This handbook looking at the 48 classical constellations includes the only surviving works on the constellation myths - Erathosthenes's "The Constellations" and Hyginus's "The Poetic Astronomy".
£17.09
Ghost House Publishing Ghost Stories of Louisiana
Book SynopsisIn Louisiana, disbelief in ghosts is not an option. Some of the best-known hauntings in the country are the unsettled spirits that have roamed the bustling French Quarter of New Orleans since its early days. But while the Crescent City teems with historic paranormal characters, the rest of Louisiana is also rife with intriguing and eerie ghost stories. Come explore the Pelican State and uncover its historic supernatural stars: * The ghost of an old woman killed in a car accident returns to her Baton Rouge home to comfort her grieving family. * A young girl''s spirit haunts several generations of a family in New Orleans'' Garden District. * A mysterious foreigner known only as ''''the Sultan'''' is massacred along with his servants, forever shrouding his French Quarter dwelling in the mysterious legend of his demise. * Visitors and staff at Oak Alley Plantation, St. James Parish, regularly encounter strange sights and frightening sounds. * Myriad spirits roam the rooms and halls of Myrtles Plantation of St. Francisville, already famous for the eerie tales from its past. * In life, Marie Laveau was undisputed voodoo queen of New Orleans; in death, she still imbues the city with dark magic. * And many more...
£11.99
Ghost House Publishing Ghost Stories of Florida
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£11.99
University College Dublin Press Atlantic Currents: Essays on Lore, Literature and
Book SynopsisThirty academics, from Ireland, Scotland, England, the Faroe Islands, Norway, Sweden, Estonia and the USA, have joined together to honour Professor Seamas O Cathain, Emeritus Professor of Irish Folklore and former Director of the National Folklore Collection, in this festschrift on his 70th birthday. Professor O Cathain is widely known for his contribution to Irish and international folkloristics and the many ways in which he has promoted Irish language and culture. Articles in the festschrift, which cover a broad array of subjects, are in themselves a reflection of Seamas O Cathain's wide-ranging interests and constitute significant contributions to the disciplines of folkloristics, dialectology, and literary and etymological studies. Topics include, among others, folklore collectors and collecting, folklore connections between Ireland and the Nordic countries, folk legends old and modern, folk beliefs and folk customs, as well as issues in Irish, Scottish Gaelic and Cornish linguistics.Trade Review'This is a beautiful book, a fitting gift for the highly respected scholar who for years has led the academic world of Irish Folklore studies.' Colm O Baoill Irish and Scottish Studies, 2014Table of ContentsIntroduction/Reamhra; FOLKLORISTS AND FOLKLORE COLLECTING: The Greatest and Bravest Small Nation on Earth': Seamus O Duilearga's Faroese Contacts and their Aftermath, Bo Almqvist; Carl Wilhelm von Sydows brev fran Irland till sonen Bertil sommaren 1920, Nils-Arvid Bringeus; Between Repudiation and Sympathy: Eilert Sundt, Johan Theodor Storaker and the Collection of Folk Tradition in Nineteenth-Century Norway, Arne Bugge Amundsen; '... a wooden peg from which emerged a rope...': The Work of Erris Folklore Collector Micheal Mac Enri, Criostoir Mac Carthaigh; 'A Small Sum of Mammon': Ceannacht Bhailiuchan Scealta Mhichil Ui Thiomanai, Rionach Ui Ogain; Asenath Nicholson and Famine Folklore in Rossport, Co. Mayo, Maureen Murphy; Visual Documentation of Irish Folk Tradition: Simon Coleman, Patricia Lysaght; TALES, LEGENDS, PROVERBS AND SONG: Da Exempla a Ceap Breatainn, Iain Seathach; The Witch's Bridle: A Swedish Migratory Legend in a Comparative Perspective, Bengt Af Klintberg; 'The cat was as big as a good-sized calf...': A Lacken Storyteller and Some Otherworld Beings, Bairbre Ni Fhloinn; James Cullinan and Some Items of South Tipperary Seanchas, Kenneth E. Nilsen; Escape from Belfield: A Campus Legend in University College Dublin, Eilis Ni Dhuibhne-Almqvist; 'I was at home alone': Memorates and the Authority of Tradition, Ulo Valk; Irish Kings, Pirates and Hermits on the Faroe Islands, Eyoun Andreassen; Historical Time and 'The Swad Chapel Song', Henry Glassie; Folk Wisdom and Orally Transmitted Knowledge in Sami Proverbs, Harald Gaski; FOLK BELIEFS, FOLK CUSTOMS AND SOCIAL ORGANISATION: Leiriu Broin ar Bhas Leanai - Fianaise Bhealoideas na hEireann, Padraig O Healai; Skotrarar, Skudlers, Colloughs and Strawboys: Wedding Guising Traditions in Norway, Shetland and Ireland, Past and Present, Terry Gunnell; The Heavy Burden: Grindaboo to Mykines, Joan Pauli Joensen; Minifundismo and Rundale: Similar Systems with Similar Origins?; Patrick O'Flanagan; GAELIC MYTHOLOGY AND EARLY LITERATURE: Early Irish Narrative Verse, Gearoid Mac Eoin; Duibheagain an Uafais i dTraidisiun na Gaeilge - Uath, Uaimh agus Ifreann, Seamus Mac Mathuna; Na Cailleachan Mora, Iain Macaonghuis; Caoilte in Ireland: Gaelic Folklore in Egils saga Skallagrimssonar, Michael Chesnutt; Badhbhsceal: Krakumal, Rory McTurk; CELTIC LANGUAGES: Si, Anders Ahlqvist; Seadhna, Seadna, Seadna, Shiana agus Litriu na Nua-Ghaeilge, Liam Mac Mathuna; Tranglam Culturtha na hAthbheochana: an Iriseoireacht agus an Claonadh Liteartha, Regina Ui Chollatain; Liosta Focal Borgstrom agus Canuinti an Oileain Sgitheanaigh i bhFianaise SGDS, Seosamh Watson; Cornish Names for Native Fruit, Nicholas Williams; Seamas O Cathain's Printed Works, Patricia Moloney; Index.
£50.00
Adventures Unlimited Press Ancient Technology in Peru and Bolivia
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£19.80
Disinformation Company And the Last Neanderthal Bigfoot, Yeti: A
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£17.95
Adventures Unlimited Press Bigfoot Nation: The History of Sasquatch in North
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£19.80
