 | Alice Nizzy Nazzy: The Witch of Santa Fe
Publication Date: 1996tale, young Manuela finds herself in the cooking pot of AliceNizzy Nazzy, and when all attempts to win her freedom fail, Manuela isspared because good children taste bad to witches. BOMC Main. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title....
 |  | Tales of Terror (The Enchanted World Series)
Publication Date: March 1987A collection of thirteen tales about ghosts, goblins, hauntings, and black magic, gathered from places as far apart as Arabia and Norway. ...
|  | Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Siva (School of Oriental & African Studies)
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|  | Jewish Magic and Superstition: A Study in Folk Religion
Publication Date: January 16, 2004| ISBN-10: 0812218620 | ISBN-13: 978-0812218626Alongside the formal development of Judaism from the eleventh through the sixteenth centuries, a robust Jewish folk religion flourished—ideas and practices that never met with wholehearted approval by religious leaders yet enjoyed such wide popularity that they could not be altogether excluded from the religion. According to Joshua Trachtenberg, it is not possible truly to understand the experience and history of the Jewish people without attempting to recover their folklife and beliefs from centuries ...
|  | The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin
Publication Date: June 1983Today we find him in a high-level physics report, illustrating phenomena that can't be described in ordinary technical terms. He appears in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the mind in a way no straightforward explanation can. In three definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin and The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin) Idries Shah takes us to the very heart of this mysterious mentor, the Mulla Nasrudin. Skillful contemporary retellings of hundreds of collected s...
|  | Connemara: Listening to the Wind (Connemara Trilogy 1)
Release Date: February 26, 2008| Series: Connemara Trilogy 1 In its landscape, history and folklore, Connemara is a singular region: ill-defined geographically, and yet unmistakably a place apart from the rest of Ireland. Tim Robinson, who established himself as Ireland's most brilliant living non-fiction writer with the two-volume "Stones of Aran", moved from Aran to Connemara nearly twenty years ago. This book is the result of his extraordinary engagement with the mountains, bogs and shorelines of the region, and with its folklore and its often terrible history: a work as beautiful and sur...
|  | Mexican Sayings: The Treasure of a People/Dichos Mexicanos : El Tesoro De UN Pueblo
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|  | The Odyssey" Re-formed (Cornell Studies in Classical Philology)
Release Date: May 30, 1996| Series: Cornell Studies in Classical Philology Frederick Ahl and Hanna M. Roisman believe that contemporary readers who do not know ancient Greek can gain a sophisticated grasp of the Odyssey if they are aware of some of the issues that intrigue and puzzle the experts. They offer a challenging new reading of the epic that is directed to the general student of literature as well as to the classicist.Ahl and Roisman suggest that, while translators have served the Odyssey and its English-speaking readers remarkably well, the nonspecialist wishing to do a more detaile...
|  | Legendary Connecticut: Traditional Tales from the Nutmeg State
Publication Date: July 1, 1995From Litchfield's great church stove war to Hartford's Charter Oak to Stonington's infamous Lantern Hill, these traditional tales from the Nutmeg State span four centuries of Connecticut history. Personal legends, narratives, anecdotes, and supernatural stories--all are fascinating, humorous and rich with the history and lore of the land. ...
|  | Performing Russia: Folk Revival and Russian Identity (BASEES/Routledge Series on Russian and East European Studies)
Publication Date: March 4, 2004| ISBN-10: 0415326141 | ISBN-13: 978-0415326148This book examines folk music and dance revival movements in Russia, exploring why this folk culture has come to represent Russia, how it has been approached and produced, and why memory and tradition, in these particular forms, have taken on particular significance in different periods.Above all it shows how folk "tradition" in Russia is an artificial cultural construct, which is periodically reinvented, and it demonstrates in particular how the "folk revival" has played a key role in strengthening Russian nat...
|  | Mythologies
Publication Date: January 1972| ISBN-10: 080901369X | ISBN-13: 978-0809013692"[Mythologies] illustrates the beautiful generosity of Barthes's progressive interest in the meaning (his word is signification) of practically everything around him, not only the books and paintings of high art, but also the slogans, trivia, toys, food, and popular rituals (cruises, striptease, eating, wrestling matches) of contemporary life . . . For Barthes, words and objects have in common the organized capacity to say something; at the same time, since they are signs, words and objects have the bad faith al...
|  | World Mythology (text only) 3rd (Third) edition by D. Rosenberg
Publication Date: 2001World Mythology: An Anthology of Great Myths and Epics [Paperback]Donna Rosenberg (Author) ...
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|  | Mansions on Rails: The Folklore of The Private Railway Car
Publication Date: 1959| ISBN-10: 0831070110 | ISBN-13: 978-0831070113| Edition: 1st "Mansions on Rails" is a professional written comprehensive study of a matter in which no bibliography of any sort now exists, an aspect of American social & economic history hitherto undocumented. It is the record of the costly & often beautiful artifact that must rank with the thoroughbraced Concord stagecoaches & the palatial Mississippi river packet. Superb photographs, builder's plans, train sheets & contemporary newspaper accounts are expertly reproduced & complement the ample text. 6 full color rep...
|  | Uncle Remus, his songs and his sayings (The Southern classics library)
Publication Date: 1983| Series: The Southern classics library THE DIALECT, LORE, AND FLAVOR OF BLACK LIFE IN THE SOUTH DURING THE NINETEENTH CENTURY IS PORTRAYED AS IT APPEARED TO GEORGIA-BORN JOEL CHANDLER HARRIS IN UNCLE REMUS'S LEGENDS OF THE OLD PLANTATION. THIS COMPLETE EDITION CONTAINS THIRTY-FOUR TALES, TEN SONGS, TWENTY-ONE CHARACTER SKETCHES AND FOUR PAGES OF PROVERBS AND USES THE FIRST (1880) EDITION TEXT. --This text refers to the Paperback edition....
|  | Mythography: The Study of Myths and Rituals
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|  | The Stepmother in Fairy Tales: Bereavement and the Feminine Shadow
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|  | Mythology's Last Gods: Yahweh and Jesus
Publication Date: June 1992This is a comprehensive history of the development of Judaeo-Christian god-mythology. Harwood traces the beginning of the "god" concept, the evolution of Judaism to the first century, and the evolution of Christianity from its monotheistic beginnings to its emergence as a three-god creed in A.D. 325. Harwood's work reveals many things including that Jesus the Nazarite preached only Essene Judaism, and that every teaching attributed to him can be traced to a pre-Christian source. ...
|  | Gods and Goddesses in the Garden: Greco-Roman Mythology and the Scientific Names of Plants
Publication Date: March 11, 2008Zeus, Medusa, Hercules, Aphrodite. Did you know that these and other dynamic deities, heroes, and monsters of Greek and Roman mythology live on in the names of trees and flowers? Some grow in your local woodlands or right in your own backyard garden.In this delightful book, botanist Peter Bernhardt reveals the rich history and mythology that underlie the origins of many scientific plant names. Unlike other books about botanical taxonomy that take the form of heavy and intimidating lexicons, Bernhardt's account comes together in a series of interlocking stories...
|  | Pope Joan: A Novel
Release Date: August 19, 1997"Engaging . . . Pope Joan has all the elements: love, sex, violence, duplicity, and long-buried secrets."--Los Angeles Times Book ReviewFor a thousand years men have denied her existence--Pope Joan, the woman who disguised herself as a man and rose to rule Christianity for two years. Now this compelling novel animates the legend with a portrait of an unforgettable woman who struggles against restrictions her soul cannot accept.When her older brother dies in a Viking attack, the brilliant young Joan assumes his identity and enters a Benedictin...
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