Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

Finding your new lifestyleHealthy habits and finding your new lifestyle: When do we actually stop and notice that our lifestyles are causing us har...

A unique collection of traditional stories about faeries, elves and goblins.  Faeries, elves, goblins, leprechauns, brownies, spriggans and many ot...

An award-winning scholar and author charts four hundred years of monsters and how they reflect the culture that created them   Leo Braudy, a finali...

Storyteller Lea Taylor brings together stories from the rugged coastlines, rushing rivers, uplands and sweeping valleys of Midlothian. In this trea...

The Coddy was one of the most renowned storytellers and characters of the Western Isles at the turn of the nineteenth into the twentieth and beyond...

A fascinating look at the myths, folklore and botany behind over 70 British wildflowers. A fascinati...

The legend of Atlantis is one of the most intriguing mysteries of all time. Disproving many well-known Atlantis theories and providing a new hypoth...

From Abbotts Ann and the Maidens Garlands to the Tichborne Dole and St Swithuns forty days of rain, Folklore of Hampshire looks at the county as ne...

He aha te mea nui o te Ao? He tangata, he tangata, he tangata What is most precious and important in this world? It is people, it is people, it is ...

This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish ...

Destroy a nation, but its mountains and rivers remain.Japanese proverbThis is a collection of 200 Japanese proverbs with illustrations and explanat...

'This readable anthology is a good introduction to a civilization that fascinates like few others ... in this book there are animals who talk, prin...

These folk tales reflect the wild and secret character of between two countries and two worlds. The book other magical characters such as the Nethe...