Folklore, Myths & Legends

Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across...

The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thoug...

Alexander the Great (356-333 BC) was transformed into a legend by all those he met, leaving an enduring tradition of romances across the world. Asi...

"Outstanding." - The Sunday Times"Beautifully written." The Times"Superbly adroit." The Spectator"Excellent." BBC History MagazineThe Battle of Has...

For fans of Neil Gaiman and Welcome to Night Vale, Aaron Mahnke's The World of Lore (based on the popular LORE podcast) explores the chilling truth...

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the best known of ancient Greek myths and has captivated people for over two and a half thousand yea...

This book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature that they inspired, some of which are cano...

In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga....

In Edo-period Japan, readers relished works known as kibyshi that combined text and illustration on the same page, much like comic books and manga....

While the undisputed heyday of folk horror was Britain in the 1960s and 1970s, the genre has not only a rich cinematic and literary prehistory, but...

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human ...

Glass slippers, a fairy godmother, a ball, a prince, an evil stepfamily, and a poor girl known for sitting amongst the ashes: incarnations of the "...

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of sou...

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturall...

The medieval northern world consisted of a vast and culturally diverse region both geographically, from roughly Greenland to Novgorod and culturall...

An encyclopedic A-to-Z guide, this beautifully illustrated volume offers hundreds of rich, fascinating definitions of 700 major and minor character...

A representative collection of eighty-one myths and folktales chosen from the oral tradition of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara. Origina...

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr. Weinberg sees Promethee as a modern allegory, a parable wrought of all...

Around the turn of the nineteenth century, no task seemed more urgent to German Romantics than the creation of a new mythology. It would unite mode...

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