Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

This book analyzes the contemporary politics of the Hajj in countries of Africa, the Near East, and Southeast Asia. States must organize the mobili...

Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practi...

Ever since Odysseus heard tales of his own exploits being retold among strangers, audiences and readers have been alive to the complications and qu...

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, known to history as the Brothe...

Nine tales of early Irish literature beautifully retold in a modern, evocative style A mysterious woman appears nightly at the bedside of a prince...

Superstitions are commonplace in the modern world. Mostly, however, they evoke innocuous images of people reading their horoscopes or avoiding blac...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

An overview of the cultural transmission of the Arabian Nights within nineteenth-century BritainAn overview of the cultural transmission of the Ara...

Dating all the way back to the 5th century B.C., Chinese horoscopes contain a wealth of interesting stories and facts. From the twelve famous zodia...

Shortlisted for the HWA Non-Fiction Crown Award 2023The history of a demonic tradition that was stolen from women and then won back again.'Remarka...

The hills of the Appalachia region hold secretsdark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, an...

The hills of the Appalachia region hold secretsdark, deep, varied, and mysterious. These secrets are often told in the form of eerie, thrilling, an...

Dr. Estés asks, Did you know, you were born as the first, and the last and the best and the only one of your kind, and that eccentricity is the fir...

Epic does many things. Among others, it defines the nature of the human storyteller; recalls the creation of the world and of the human race; descr...

Originally published in 1923, the following papers contain the results of investigations concerning religion and custom in Borneo and the Malay Pen...

In this book, Emily Hilliard draws from her work as state folklorist to explore contemporary folklife in West Virginia. In doing so, she challenges...

Conspiracy theorists claim impossible knowledge, such as knowledge of the doings of a secret world government. Yet they accept this impossible know...