 | The Sacred Pipe: An Archetypal Theology
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 |  | Tall Tale America: A Legendary History of our Humorous Heroes
Publication Date: January 15, 1987"Johnny Appleseed, Davy Crockett, Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and John Henry have all become heroes of American folklore. Some of them, like Crokett, were real, but all have become the subject of tall tales. This is a folksy history of the United States, told as if the characters were all real. This panoramic (if completely untrue) history begins with Columbus. . . . En route to its end in the 1940s (where traditional American heroes are enlisted to fight in World War II), it covers the great and small events of our national history, including the overlooked, bu...
|  | The Legend of the Glorious Adventures of Tyl Ulenspiegel in the Land of Flanders & Elsewhere
Publication Date: June 1, 2006Ulenspiegel was living at Koolkerke, in the intimate favour of a farmer's widow, a sweet and gentle person who refused him nothing of what was hers to give. He was very happy there, petted and made much of, until one day a treacherous rival, an alderman of the village, lay in wait for him early in the morning when he was coming out of the tavern, and would have beaten him with a wooden club. But Ulenspiegel, thinking to cool his rival's anger, threw him into a duck-pond that was full of water, and the alderman scrambled out as best he could, green as a toad and ...
|  | The Mythic Forest, the Green Man And the Spirit of Nature: The Re-emergence of the Spirit of Nature from Ancient Times into Modern Society
Publication Date: March 30, 2006| ISBN-10: 0875864341 | ISBN-13: 978-0875864341| Edition: illustrated edition Trees and forests are rich in symbolism and have been feared or revered since man began to walk the earth. Mankind has given a recognizable face to the awesome and impalpable forces of nature in the image of the Green Man and the nature spirits that this book explores. In Part I, the author discusses the gods of nature and the folklore of trees, tracing a variety of traditions and beliefs; in Part II he presents the history of the image of the Green Man, and its use in pre-Christ...
|  | Does Champ Exist?
Publication Date: September 1, 2007Notes on the historic lake monster conference held in Shelburne, Vermont, 29 August 1981. Includes limnological notes on Lake Champlain, a chronology of lake monster sightings, and reprints of various older newspaper articles on Champ, the alleged lake monster. ...
|  | Roadside Crosses in Contemporary Memorial Culture
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|  | More Tales Alive in Turkey
Publication Date: January 15, 1992More Tales Alive in Turkey is a sequel to Tales Alive in Turkey, the two volumes providing a survey of the wide range of Turkish oral narrative. Materials for both are drawn entirely from the Archive of Turkish Oral Narrative at Texas Tech University. Whereas the tales in the earlier volume were collected between 1961 and 1964, most of those in More Tales Alive in Turkey were taped in Turkey in the 1970s and 1980s. ...
|  | GREAT FOLK TALES OF IRELAND: The Fate of the Children of Lir; Fior Usga; The White Trout: A Legend of Cong; The Boyhood of Cuchulainn; The Kildare Pooka; How Cormac MacArt Went to Faery; The Brewery of Egg Shells; The Story of Deirdre
Publication Date: 1979Story-telling has always been an intrinsic part of the Celtic way of life, an amusement s old as the race itself. The narratives, peopled with both dieties and mortals who dwell in a land of adventure, warfare ond romance, form perhaps one of the oldest vernacular literatures of any European nation. The Celtic realm is a veritable treasure trove for the keen folklorist, and indeed for all who enjoy an exciting fireside tale. ...
|  | The Goddess and the Bull: A Study in Minoan-Mycenaean Mythology
Publication Date: October 29, 2007| ISBN-10: 0761838341 | ISBN-13: 978-0761838340The Goddess and the Bull defines and describes the aspects of the Mother Goddess as an archetype. Through this study, the role of the feminine comes to light as one of the most important facets of the Minoan-Mycenaean culture. By examining the feminine emphasis in the Bronze Age world of religion and science, the study of the Goddess changes our views of ancient cultures such as this one. The relationship between the Goddess and the Bull forms the basis of the study of the astronomer priestesses of the Minoa...
|  | Yoruba Folktales
Publication Date: September 5, 2000| ISBN-10: 9781211865 | ISBN-13: 978-9781211867The author ranks as one of the foremost living traditional African storytellers - as recognised by the acclaim of his first book, The Palmvine Drinkard. This book includes seven folktales especially for young adults, but of universal appeal. Beautiful black and white ink drawings illustrate the tales whose cast of characters include humans, a goddess, an elephant woman, a boa constrictor and a shell-man. ...
|  | Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan
Publication Date: September 1, 1995Addresses Japanese culture insightfully, exploring the depths of the psyche from both Eastern and Western perspectives, an endeavor the author is uniquely suited to undertake. The present volume is based upon five lectures originally delivered at the prestigious round-table Eranos Conferences in Ascona, Switzerland. Readers interested in Japanese myth and religion, comparative cultural studies, depth psychology or clinical psychology will all find Professor Kawai’s offerings to be remarkably insightful while at the same time practical for their own da...
|  | Wolverine Myths and Visions: Dene Traditions from Northern Alberta (Studies in the Anthropology of North American Indians)
Publication Date: February 1, 1990The people who call themselves Den Dhaá, a group of the Athapaskan-speaking natives of northwestern Canada known as the Slave or Slavey Indians, now number about one thousand and occupy three reserves in northwestern Alberta. Because their settlements were until recently widely dispersed and isolated, they have maintained their language and traditions more successfully than most other Indian groups. This collection of their stories, recorded in the Dene language with literal interlinear English glosses and in a free English translation, represents a maj...
|  | Swiss-Alpine Folk-Tales
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|  | Texas Indian Myths & Legends
Publication Date: January 6, 2000Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans. ...
|  | Glastonbury Reader: Selections from the Myths, Legends and Stories of Ancient Avalon
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|  | Favorite Folktales From Around the World
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|  | The Lost Language of Symbolism Volume II
Publication Date: July 6, 2007Subtitled: An Inquiry into the Origin of Certain Letters, Words, Names, Fairy-Tales, Folklore and Mythologies. Symbols tell a story but we must first know how to read them. Otherwise, one just sees a picture without the intended message. This book produces the key to understanding many important symbols. For centuries emblems and symbols have been used for trademarks, watermarks, and decorative purposes. These were covered well in Volume One. Volume Two moves into many sacred and mystical areas, covering such things as the heavenly twins, the white horse, the si...
|  | Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (Ray and Pat Browne Book)
Publication Date: February 17, 2006| Series: Ray and Pat Browne Book Since its birth in the 1960s, the study of popular culture has come a long way in defining its object, its purpose, and its place in academe. Emerging along the margins of a scholarly establishment that initially dismissed anything popular as unworthy of serious study-trivial, formulaic, easily digestible, escapist-early practitioners of the discipline stubbornly set about creating the theoretical and methodological framework upon which a deeper understanding could be founded. Through seminal essays that document the matura...
|  | Language of the Robe: American Indian Trade Blankets
Publication Date: November 18, 1992For all Native American cultures, from the Plains and Southwest people to the tribes of the Northwest Coast, the blanket makes a visual statement of "Indianness." Language of the Robe explains a living tradition among the Native American people. Today, trade blankets are collectibles, especially those that were made prior to World War II. Language of the Robe identifies, classifies, and presents the history of the trade blanket.Within the tribe or pueblo, the blanket is a statement of an individual's bond to the older, traditional ways, to roots that run de...
|  | Household Ecology: Economic Change and Domestic Life among the Kekchi Maya in Belize
Publication Date: November 1, 1997Development and economic change are often seen as destructive to the family and to other traditional forms of social organization. Wilk's study of household ecology reveals that the Kekchi Maya of Belize have responded by creating new forms of family organization, working together to face challenges posed by development. Not merely survivors of an ancient splendor, the Kekchi Maya build upon their rich heritage to approach such problems as ethnic strife and rainforest destruction as creative agents.Wilk combines a wealth of detail on agricultural calendars, ...
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