Folklore, Myths & Legends

To most of us, Celtic culture is at once distinctive and enigmatic. Though we may acknowledge the Celtic heritage of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Spai...

When Mary Lange asked a group of Upington women: `What do you know about the Water Snake?, this triggered a set of lyrical short stories, in an att...

Cunning Folk transports us to a time when magic was used to solve lifes day-to-day problems as well as some of deadly importance.A brilliant book,...

HIGHLY COMMENDED: THE OWPG GUIDEBOOK AWARDS 2024Embark on an extraordinary journey through the British countryside, leading to mysterious sites, an...

Allow me to introduce myself.But he needed no introduction. Anansi the spider! said Anansi the boy. The tales were true!Traditional tales are alway...

Reflections on fifty years of interaction with the people, places, wildlife, and folkways of Alabama In 1971 James Seay Brown Jr. moved to Birmingh...

The feminists lied, she tells me. They said we could do everything / we wanted. Anything, I correct her. A book-length narrative in poems, The Fami...

The Queen of Sheba is one of the most famous women of antiquity, rivaled only by Cleopatra and Helen of Troy for wealth, power and beauty. She is b...

An enchanting, beautifully illustrated guide to seasonal plantsshowing the long history of herbal remedies and their uses today  [A] charming alman...

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding blac...

  From Costa Award-shortlisted author Nicholas Bowling comes a tale of adventure, myth and music to make your heart sing ... ...

By turning off the main highway and discovering old routes, some of which have been travelled for thousands of years, you will see Ireland in an en...

Bestselling author Elen Sentier looks at Merlin in history and mythology and considers his continuing relevance for people today. Best known as the...

Georgian Mythology was published in two books in Georgia. The first book Georgian Mythology 1 - Cross and Its Community was printed twice: in 1996 ...

Turns a critical eye on Aesop's Fables to ask whether there is any scientific truth to Aesops portrayal of his animals. Despite originating more t...

From the mountains of Northern Italy to the remote forests of Nigeria, diverse fairies from around the world come together in this little encyclope...

From Arthurian legend to tales of ancient China, horses have traversed the world alongside humans for centuries, and their heroic adventures are ga...

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime.'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR'Fascinating' SUNDAY TI...

In 1953 the schoolboy Alan Garner rediscovered a wooden shovel originally found in the Alderley copper mines in 1875. In 1991 he presented it to th...

Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying...

Stories of the Serbian people are both poetic and strident, reflecting their proud heritage as Southern Slavs, who, in the years after the fall of ...

Throughout the recorded history of Britain, belief in earthbound spirits presiding over nature, the home and human destiny has been a feature of su...