Folklore, Myths & Legends

International bestselling children's author Cornelia Funke has long been inspired and fascinated by fairy tales. This wonderful anthology is Funke'...

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...

In the beginning there was nothing but vast emptiness on earth and in the sky. Itbu-moo, the Mother Creator, shaped the mountains, rivers and lakes...

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

Mango trees are court witnessesMagical sticks identify thievesBirbal must take a trip to heavenThe friendship between Emperor Akbar and his ministe...

Brian, an aimless slacker in his twenties, works double shifts at his waiter job, never cleans his apartment and gets black-out drunk with his re...

Appreciating the trees of yesterday and today.You don't need to be a tree hugger to love trees. Whether they grow in cities or form part of a huge ...

Find a penny, pick it up All day long you'll have good luckWhether hopping over cracks, saluting magpies or knocking on wood, we all seek good fort...

The Tomb of the Mili Mongga lives up to its magnificent billing DAILY TELEGRAPH - A fossil expedition becomes a thrilling search for a mythical b...

The Origins and History of Consciousness draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypa...

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...

This book takes an engaging look at the significance of traditional proverbs and their variation in the modern world. From sales pitch to propagand...

A powerful exploration of trees in both the real and the imagined Anglo-Saxon landscape. Trees played a particularly important part in the rural e...

Final volume in three-volume set of translations of Arthurian romances from medieval Scandinavia. Hærra Ivan (Sir Ivan, the Knight with the Lion) ...

This book presents a unique collection of fairy tales from contemporary China, translated into English for the first time. Demonstrating the contin...

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BO...

From the horrific to the heroic, cinematic werewolves are metaphors for our savage nature, symbolizing the secret, bestial side of humanity that hi...

The Door Must Remain Open When two boys disappear from her hometown, Daphne Gauge sees eerie parallels to her brother's disappearance 30 years earl...

The Door Must Remain Open When two boys disappear from her hometown, Daphne Gauge sees eerie parallels to her brother's disappearance 30 years earl...

This book examines the attitudes of tertiary students in Melanesia and Timor-Leste to national identity and key issues of nation-building. Their vi...

Drawing upon historical, archaeological, and mythical examples from around the world, this book reveals how societal views of female empowerment...

The between days were days of pure white heat.Summer is swelling around the village. Heat is surging, people are whispering about a great hungry wa...

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