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...