Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

Profiles of artists and performers from around the world form the basis of this innovative volume that explores the many ways individuals engage wi...

Stories accompany us through life from birth to death. But they do not merely entertain, inform, or distress us - they show us what counts as right...

An examination of how and why Scotland gained its reputation for the supernatural, and how belief continued to flourish in a supposed Age of Enligh...

A survey of the motif of the revenant, showing how medieval themes and motifs persist today. The proliferation of books and films about the "undea...

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice...

A Chinese Bestiary presents a fascinating pageant of mythical creatures from a unique and enduring cosmography written in ancient China. The Guidew...

Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture: Birds and Humans in the Popular Imagination closes the gap between ornithological and humanities knowle...

Conspiracy theory and American foreign policy examines the relationship between secrecy, power and interpretation around international controversy,...

Since the beginning of the nineteenth century folklorists, and the general public in their wake, have assumed the orality of fairy tales. Only late...

The highly anticipated inside look at the collapse of the Murdaugh dynasty by the celebrated investigative journalist and creator of the #1 hit Mur...

Doughty examines contemporary children’s and young adult (YA) literature featuring royal characters through a folkloric lens and shows different wa...

In the twenty-first century, American culture is experiencing a profound shift toward pluralism and secularization. In Fairy Tales in Contemporary ...

This book explores and explains stories about the mythic outlaw, who from the Middle Ages to the present day has stood up for the values of natural...

In this stunning true crime thriller of Facebook, catfishing, and jealousy, a double-murder begins with the click of a button. When Bill Payne and...

Like many aspiring writers, David Breithaupt had money problems. But what he also had was unsupervised access to one of the finest special collecti...

Visions of the Buddha offers a ground-breaking approach to the nature of the early discourses of the Buddha, the most foundational scriptures of Bu...

By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions. Folklore s...

Ravana, the demon-king antagonist from the Ramayana, the ancient Hindu epic poem, has become an unlikely cultural hero among Sinhala Buddhists over...

Well, gentlemen, here's a tale that people have told time and again ...So begins the title story in this collection of fifty Sicilian folk and fair...