Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

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 ...