 | Swiss-Alpine Folk-Tales
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 |  | Ethnic Humor Around the World: A Comparative Analysis
Publication Date: March 1990'...a brilliant, insightful work. It will surely become the authoritative study on this complex subject' - "Choice". 'There are so many good things in this volume that it is difficult to select the best. I found the chapter concerning American, British, and Australian jokes about one another particularly fascinating, illustrating as it did the different stress on achievement, equality, and status in each of these societies' - "London Sunday Telegraph". '[T]he most comprehensive work to date on ethnic jokes and, by extension, folk humor' - "Journal of American Folk...
| | Favorite Folktales From Around the World
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|  | Sacred Stories of the Sweet Grass Cree 1930
Publication Date: October 15, 2004This book is a facsimile reprint and may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. ...
|  | Classic Myths, Volume 2 (Retold Myths & Folktales)
Publication Date: September 1990| Series: Retold Myths & Folktales Stories: The Theft of Persephone, Odysseus and the Cyclops, Achilles and Hector, The Trojan Horse, Orpheus and Eurydice, Odipus, Antigone, Perseus. ...
|  | Irish Myths And Legends
Publication Date: February 25, 1999Lady Gregory's translations of ancient Celtic stories inspired a generation of writers, including W. B. Yeats, whose original foreword to Gods and Fighting Men is abridged for this classic miniature version. A perfect gift for all lovers of literature. ...
|  | Quintus Smyrnaeus: The Fall of Troy (Loeb Classical Library No. 19)
Publication Date: January 1, 1913| ISBN-10: 0674990226 | ISBN-13: 978-0674990227Quintus was a poet who lived at Smyrna some four hundred years after Christ. His work, in fourteen books, is a bold and generally underrated attempt in Homer's style to complete the story of Troy from the point at which the Iliad closes. Quintus tells us the stories of Penthesilea, the Amazonian queen; Memnon, leader of the Ethiopians; the death of Achilles; the contest for Achilles' arms between Ajax and Odysseus; the arrival of Philoctetes; and the making of the Wooden Horse. The poem ends with the departur...
|  | The Good People: New Fairylore Essays
Release Date: November 6, 1997| ISBN-10: 0813109396 | ISBN-13: 978-0813109398" Whether called "the good people," "the little people," or simply "them," fairies are familiar from their appearances in Shakespeare's plays, Disney's films, and points in between. In many cultures, however, fairies are not just the stuff of distant legend or literature: they are real creatures with supernatural powers. The Good People presents nineteen essays that focus on the actual fairies of folklore -- fairies of past and living traditions who affected, and still affect, people's lives in myriad ways. ...
|  | Apollodorus: The Library, Vol. 2: Book 3.10-16 / Epitome (Loeb Classical Library, No. 122)
Publication Date: 1921| ISBN-10: 0674991362 | ISBN-13: 978-0674991361The Library provides in three books a grand summary of traditional Greek mythology and heroic legends. Written in clear and unaffected style, the compendium faithfully follows the Greek literary sources. It is thus an important record of Greek accounts of the origin and early history of the world and their race. This work has been attributed to Apollodorus of Athens (born c. 180 BCE), a student of Aristarchus. But the text as we have it was written by an author probably living in the first or second century of our era.I...
|  | The Age of Fable: The Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology
Publication Date: October 1997| Series: Illustrated Bulfinch's Mythology Here are the world's most-loved stories, in a dynamic visual tour de force for today's readers. Each timeless myth is superbly presented in story form and enhanced with original art work by world-renowned artist Giovanni Caselli. Though Bulfinch's has been heralded for more than a century, it has never been published in so beautiful and accessible a format. Evocative four-color illustrations, many full-page, bring to life key events and characters of these universal tales and sagas -- from the Greek and Roman pantheon o...
|  | Conversations with the High Priest of Coosa
Release Date: January 17, 2007| ISBN-10: 0807827533 | ISBN-13: 978-0807827536This book begins where the reach of archaeology and history ends, writes Charles Hudson. Grounded in careful research, this extraordinary work imaginatively brings to life the sixteenth-century world of the Coosa, a native people whose territory stretched across the Southeast, encompassing much of present-day Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama. Cast as a series of conversations between Domingo de la Anunciaci¹n, a real-life Spanish priest who traveled to the Coosa chiefdom around 1559, and the Raven, a fiction...
|  | The Mystery Animals of the British Isles: Northumberland and Tyneside
Publication Date: June 1, 2008Mystery animals? Great Britain? Surely not. These are not phrases which would normally be thought of in the same sentance. But it is true. The zoogeorgraphy of the British Isles is not as hard and fast as one would have imagined; there are mystery big cats, sea monsters, strangely coloured variants of well known species, animals only known from a handful of specimens or even less, and a body of evidence to suggest that entire new species await discovery. The Fortean zoology of these islands is even more impressive, with dragons, monsters, ghostly animals and wei...
|  | Algonquin Indian Tales
Publication Date: March 1, 20051903. Chief Big Canoe writes to Young, Dear Friend: Your book of stories gathered from among my tribe has very much pleased me. The reading of them brings up the days of long time ago when I was a boy and heard our old people tell these tales in the wigwams and at the camp fire. I am very glad that you are in this way saving them from being forgotten, and I am sure that many people will be glad to read them. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing. ...
| | Oral Epics in India
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|  | Mythology: Myths, Legends and Fantasies
Publication Date: July 2005MYTHOLOGY: Myths, Legends, & Fantasies! Global Book Publishing, 2003, 527 page oversized (coffeetable type) hardbound book w/dustjacket. Retail $75US. ...
|  | Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors
Publication Date: April 30, 2007| ISBN-10: 031333952X | ISBN-13: 978-0313339523Don't get in that car without looking in the back seat! Everyone has heard the story about such-and-such, and while it sounds impossible, so-and-so swears that it must be true. Often gory, disgusting, shocking, and surprising, urban legends are central to everyday experience. From high schools and colleges to offices and organizations, urban legends are everywhere. This book collects more than 150 urban legends from around the world, such as The Mutilated Shopper, The Devil at the Disco, and The Thug in the Ba...
|  | Terence Fisher: Horror, Myth and Religion
Publication Date: January 15, 2002| ISBN-10: 0786411678 | ISBN-13: 978-0786411672Some critics in England and France have long maintained that British director Terence Fisher, whose films dominated world markets in the 1950s and 60s, was one of the greatest directors of fantasy films in history. Since his death in 1980, Fisher's reputation has grown from relative obscurity and his influence on the development of the modern horror film has been widely recognized. However, Fisher's importance should not be limited to the context of the fantasy and horror film genres. His films should also b...
|  | The Eternal Ones of the Dream: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Australian Myth and Ritual 1945
Publication Date: October 15, 2004With illustrations and one map. ...
|  | Tales Told in Holland (My Travelship)
Publication Date: 1926My Travelship series ...
|  | Nabati Poetry: The Oral Poetry of Arabia
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