Folklore, Myths & Legends
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Prince Twins Seven-Seven: His Art, His Life in Nigeria, His Exile in America
Henry GlassieCurrent price €54.80Original price €62.99Prince Twins Seven-Seven (1944-2011) was not only one of Africa's most famous contemporary artists and the leader of the Osogbo School of Nigerian ...
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Monsters You Should Know
Emma SanCartierCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50Meet the world's most unusual monsters in this darkly funny collection of creatures and cryptids from folkloric history. Illustrator Emma SanCartie...
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Folk Stories and Heroes of Wales: Volume 1
John Owen HuwsCurrent price €10.19Original price €11.99Current price €10.19Original price €11.99Save 15% -
Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition
Dwight F. ReynoldsCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand...
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Legends of the Fairies
Helena GrimesCurrent price €23.06Original price €26.50Lady Jane Wilde (née Elgee) wrote Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland, first published in 1887 and Ancient Cures, Charms, a...
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The Winter of the Witch
Katherine ArdenCurrent price €13.93Original price €16.99A magical and captivating coming of age novel set in medieval Russia - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's...
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African Folktales
Princeton University PressCurrent price €51.29Original price €56.99A representative collection of eighty-one myths and folktales chosen from the oral tradition of the peoples of Africa south of the Sahara. Origina...
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Aesop''s Fables
AesopCurrent price €15.75Original price €17.50This timeless collection brings together three hundred of the most enduringly popular of Aesops fables in a volume that will delight young and old ...
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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Serinity YoungCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, fl...
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Women Who Fly: Goddesses, Witches, Mystics, and other Airborne Females
Serinity YoungCurrent price €32.85Original price €36.50From the asparas of Hindu myth to the swan maidens of European fairy tales, tales of flying women-some with wings, others with clouds, rainbows, fl...
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Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
Incoronata InserraCurrent price €98.30Original price €112.99Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across...
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Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
Incoronata InserraCurrent price €98.30Original price €112.99Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across...
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The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, And Fairies
Marina WarnerCurrent price €17.09Original price €18.99Current price €17.09Original price €18.99Save 10% -
Global Tarantella: Reinventing Southern Italian Folk Music and Dances
Incoronata InserraCurrent price €23.93Original price €27.50Tarantella, a genre of Southern Italian folk music and dance, is an international phenomenon--seen and heard in popular festivals, performed across...
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The Shadow of Perseus: A compelling feminist retelling of the myth of Perseus told from the perspectives of the women who knew him best
Claire HeywoodCurrent price €14.44Original price €16.99'A page-turning retelling . . . so interesting and thought-provoking' JENNIFER SAINT'A fresh and original take on the myth of Perseus . . . I was g...
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Saving the Nation through Culture: The Folklore Movement in Republican China
Jie GaoCurrent price €64.79Original price €71.99The Modern Chinese Folklore Movement coalesced at National Peking University between 1918 and 1926. A group of academics, inspired by Western thoug...
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Alexander the Great in the Persian Tradition: History, Myth and Legend in Medieval Iran
Dr Haila ManteghiCurrent price €98.09Original price €108.99Alexander 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...
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The Truth of Myth
Gregory SchremppCurrent price €24.75Original price €27.50The Truth of Myth is a thorough and accessible introduction to the study of myth, surveying the intellectual history of the topic, methods for stud...
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Conquered: The Last Children of Anglo-Saxon England
Eleanor ParkerCurrent price €29.25Original price €32.50Outstanding. - The Sunday Times Beautifully written. The Times Superbly adroit. The Spectator Excellent. BBC History Magazine The Battle of Hastin...
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The World of Lore, Volume 3: Dreadful Places: Now a major online streaming series
Aaron MahnkeCurrent price €17.99Original price €19.99For 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...
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Narrative Structures in Burmese Folk Tales
Soe Marlar LwinCurrent price €83.69Original price €92.99Current price €83.69Original price €92.99Save 10% -
Supernatural Cities: Enchantment, Anxiety and Spectrality
Boydell & Brewer LtdCurrent price €89.09Original price €98.99Far from being a static or eroding cultural inheritance from the past, the supernatural has continually been appropriated and updated to accommodat...
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Modern Ghost Melodramas: ''What Lies Beneath''
Michael WalkerCurrent price €152.24Original price €174.99The popular and critical successes of films like The Sixth Sense and The Ring and its sequels in the late 1990s led to an impressive international ...
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Valerius Flaccus: Argonautica, Book 7: Edited with Introduction, Translation, and Commentary
P. J. DavisCurrent price €102.84Original price €120.99The 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...
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Myth and Meaning: Conversations on Mythology and Life
Joseph CampbellCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99Current price €30.44Original price €34.99Save 13% -
Nectar of the Gods: From Hera''s Hurricane to the Appletini of Discord, 75 Mythical Cocktails to Drink Like a Deity
Liv AlbertCurrent price €16.10Original price €18.50Sip sweet libations worthy of the Gods with these Greek mythinspired concoctions based on all your favorite Gods and Goddesses.Care for Hestias Old...
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Fables in Jewish Culture: The Jon A. Lindseth Collection
Emile SchrijverCurrent price €105.29Original price €116.99Fables in Jewish Culture catalogues almost 400 Jewish scrolls and books from the collection of Jon A. Lindseth that contain animal stories with mor...
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N Hoonanea o ka Manawa: Pleasurable Pastimes
KaohuhaaheoinkuahiwiekoluCurrent price €30.44Original price €34.99He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku. A memorial for the events of the past, and som...
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Nordic Sagas as Children''s Literature: Victorian and Edwardian Retellings in Words and Pictures
Velma Bourgeois RichmondCurrent price €80.09Original price €88.99This book examines translations of Icelandic sagas and the Victorian and Edwardian children's literature that they inspired, some of which are cano...
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Bushman Folktales: A Collection of Gllana Myths and Fables
Jiro TanakaCurrent price €47.69Original price €52.99Current price €47.69Original price €52.99Save 10% -
The Bell Witch in Myth and Memory: From Local Legend to International Folktale
Rick GregoryCurrent price €26.85Original price €33.99Apparently, slumber parties in the mid-South 1970s were plied with a strange ritual. At midnight attendees would gather before a mirror and chant I...
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N Hoonanea o ka Manawa: Pleasurable Pastimes
Ka'ohuhaaheoinkuahiwiekoluCurrent price €73.07Original price €83.99He mea hoomanao no na hana oia au i hala, a he mea hoi e poina ole ai i na mamo o keia la a mau aku. A memorial for the events of the past, and som...
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The Fates: A spellbindingly original mythical retelling for 2024
Rose BlytheCurrent price €20.15Original price €23.99You've heard the legends, now hear their truth . . .Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, desti...
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The Fates: A spellbindingly original mythical retelling for 2024
Rose BlytheCurrent price €16.79Original price €19.99You've heard the legends, now hear their truth . . .Before Gods and mortals, there were The Fates - three sisters born out of Nyx's darkness, desti...
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The ocean of story, being C.H. Tawney''s translation of Somadeva''s Katha sarit sagara (or Ocean of streams of story) (Volume VII)
Charles Henry TawneyCurrent price €16.19Original price €17.99Current price €16.19Original price €17.99Save 10%