Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

In Counterfeit Politics, David Kelman reassesses the political significance of conspiracy theory. Traditionally, political theory has sought to ban...

In this peoples history of Ireland, John Creedon introduces a fascinating collection of stories from the Schools Collection. This treasure trove of...

Oo-Ma-Ha-Ta-Wa-Tah and Other Stories (1898) is a work of history and folklore by Fannie Reed Griffen and Susette La Flesche. Written at the end of ...

According to legend, the English landscape so calm on the surface is really the Devils work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and ...

Web of Lies is a fascinating and far-reaching examination of the rising threat of far-right extremist thought in Ireland and internationally, and l...

Have you ever seen a pixie? Really? How about a nixie? Where would you find a brownie? And who exactly is Puck? Hiding in the woods, meadows, ...

A powerfully poignant tale of one of the most turbulent moments in Scotland's history: the North Berwick Witch Trials. ITS THE 4TH OF DECEMBER 159...

Telling the Seasons takes us on a journey through the twelve months of the year with stories, customs and celebrations. Drawing on the changing pat...

Practiced today by more than 500 million adherents, Buddhism emerged from India between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE. Based around the origin...

This is a golden treasury of over one hundred English folktales captured in the form they were first collected in past centuries. Read these classi...

This is not a book of facts; its a book of facts. Should you finish it believing we became the planets dominant species because predators found us ...

Describes the arcane rituals, ancient beliefs, and secret rites of the Welsh Marches, including those of the Sin Eaters, Eye Biters, and Spirit Hu...

Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of detailed diagrams and technical illustrations exploring the evolution and importance of the starcut diagram ...

An enchanting selection of Madame dAulnoys seventeenth-century French fairy tales, interpreted by contemporary visual artist Natalie FrankMarie-Cat...

For 25 centuries, the animal stories which go by the name of Aesops Fables have amused and instructed generations of children and adults alike. The...

The oldest discovered statue, fashioned some fifteen to twenty thousand years ago, is of a bear. The lion was not always king. From antiquity to th...

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

Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods (1915) is a collection of Hawaiian folktales and myths by W. D. Westervelt. Connecting the origin story o...

The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (1922) is a collection of Aboriginal legends by Mary Grant Bruce. The product of extensive research on the Aboriginal pe...