Popular Beliefs & Controversial Knowledge

The perfect gift for bird watchers. 70 of Britain's birds natural history facts, folklore and literary appearances. Packed wit...

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...