Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

On the eve of his 100th birthday, Dr Mavis P Kelsey shares a generous collection of sayings from his homeland. What began as an enjoyable hobby and...

Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, p...

On August 4, 1578, in an ill-conceived attempt to wrest Morocco back from the hands of the infidel Moors, King Sebastian of Portugal led his troops...

Ever wanted to illustrate a book? Now you can. ''Once upon a time, in a far away land ...'' This collection of your favourite fairy tales is accomp...

A Cyclops is popularly assumed to be nothing more than a flesh-eating, one-eyed monster. In an accessible, stylish, and academically authoritative ...

This book provides the first full-scale English-language study of Pradyumna, the son of the Hindu god Krsna. Often represented as a young man in mi...

From crowded train stations to quiet woods and from city centres to our own back gardens, birds remind us that nature is everywhere. But do you kno...

This exciting book sheds new light on the Grail stories and the arrival of Christianity to Somerset. It illustrates important links between Glaston...

''Then she began to run, and she ran over the sharp stones and through the thorns, and the wild animals bounded past her ...''Four weird, dark and ...

People have been looking for the sites of the long-lost and mysterious battles of King Arthur for a thousand years. In this book, the result of ext...

Brace yourself for a journey into a creepy, dark side of the American Midwest you thought you knewa side teeming with real-life surrealism and hist...

Beneath California's scenic landscape lies a strange and dark side, full of spine-tingling tales and frightful imagery. Creepy California: Strange ...

Once upon a Milton Keynes Buckinghamshire is an ancient county of Roman forts and highwaymen, motorways and urban myth. These are the Buckinghamsh...

Depictions of the zombie apocalypse continue to reshape our concept of the walking dead (and of ourselves). The undead mirror cultural fears--go...

Looking to classic fairytales for guidance, growth, and healing. Analyzing the ways in which the Grimm brothers' tales provide real, vital insights...

County Carlow, where stood Dinn Righ, the seat of the ancient kings of Leinster, is steeped in history, myth and legend which is celebrated in this...

Tolkien's wizard Gandalf, Wagner's Valkyrie Brunnhilde, Marvel's superhero the Mighty Thor and the Vikings heading for Valhalla in Led Zeppelin's '...

The state of the weather is almost the first topic of conversation when people meet, which is not surprising when it is a matter of such importance...