Folklore, Myths & Legends

The Rigveda is a monumental text in both world religion and world literature, yet outside a small band of specialists it is little known. Composed ...

Trick or Treat is the first book to both examine the origins and history of Halloween and explore in depth its current global popularity. Festivals...

This book, a selection of folk tales, true tales, tall tales, myths, gossip, legends and memories, celebrates and honours unique Welsh stories. Som...

Meet mythologys fifty fiercest females in this modern retelling of the worlds greatest legends. From feminist fairies to bloodsucking temptresses, ...

In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agricul...

Why does Mulla Nasruddin spoon yoghurt into the river? What is the reason he rides his donkey backwards? Why does he paint a picture that is blank?...

Now available in 23 languages!The Big Bad Wolf is late AGAIN and is ruining stories as he rushes through the forest to Grandma's house. When the Th...

CONNECT TO THE MAGIC OF THE EARTH. This powerful and beautiful deck is a portal to inner healing, love and connection. Each colourful card is infu...

This volume of folk tales collected by Heinrich Rink, by native Greenlanders, is the translation of the first book printed in Greenland. Rink began...

For readers of THE VIRGIN SUICIDES or THE GIRLS, a story of two extraordinary, magnetic women and their disappearances - a hundred years apart -...

This colorfully illustrated multicultural Korean children's book presents Korean fairy tales and other folk storiesproviding insight into a vibrant...

Gwent teems with stories of magic and strange transformations above and below ground. To tell them afresh, storyteller Christine Watkins has search...

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain. This is the Britain of mist-drenched forests and unpredictable sea-...

I have run the gauntlet of many borders in my time, but the border I grew up with at home was far and away the most trying, writes Seamas OCathain,...

A collection of investigations into strange and mysterious phenomena from around the world.  Explores ancient and modern sacred sites, places of p...

Katherine Soutar has provided the cover illustrations for the vast majority of books in The History Press popular Folk Tales series. This new colle...

'I caught a glimpse of him, behind the veil. And he knew I'd caught it. There was that understanding between us. We were members of the club of the...

The idea of heaven and hell is one of the oldest and most widespread religious beliefs of human civilization. In the history of western literature,...