Folklore, Myths & Legends

At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival, throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to celebrate Hawaiis multicultural heritage through it...

This ancient tale about brotherly love could not be more timely. Told for centuries by Jewish, Christian and Muslim people, its theme of peaceable ...

Of all forms taken by the undead, the vampire wields the most powerful pull on the modern imagination. But the countless movies and books inspired ...

15,000 years ago the Earths axis tilted, shifting the geographic poles. Volcanoes erupted, the icecaps melted, and the seas rose dramatically. Anta...

This new edition of Anthology of Classical Myth offers selections from key Near Eastern textsthe Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh, Epic of Creation (En...

In his new collection of essays, Jan Bondeson tells ten fascinating stories of myths and hoaxes, beliefs and Ripley-like facts, concerning the anim...

Tellinger reveals how numerous, 200,000-year-old sites in South Africa perfectly match Sumerian descriptions of Abzu, the land of the First People ...

To be from Appalachia--to be at home there and to love it passionately--informs the narratives of each of the sixteen storytellers featured in this...

Curiosity leads a young warrior to track a new animal. It leads him far from home, but at last he finds a herd of the strange new creatures. They a...

The trickster and the hero, found in so many of the world's oral traditions, are seemingly opposed but often united in one character. Trickster and...

Discover the secrets of the ancient temples, the sacred geometry that gave rise to the world's most awe-inspiring cathedrals and the cryptic ceremo...