Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

Wales is a Celtic country and the Celts have always treasured oral learning and recitation, with a passion for committing facts to memory rather than the written word.

This detailed, scholarly history of Korea is a comprehensive political and socioeconomic history from 57 B.

A cornucopia of some of Britain's oldest and most beloved native trees, this book weaves together their rich history, folklore and traditions.

In the misty depths of Eureka Springs' Black Bass Lake, something ancient and ravenous stirs.

Every year thousands of pilgrims travel to Brindavan, the village where Krishna is said to have lived as a child.

In all of his works Blake struggled with the question of how chaos can be assimilated into imaginative order.

In the shadowed hollows of the Ozarks and the mist-shrouded mountains of the world, something ancient stirs.

Black Sea Atlantis: The Flood That Forged the Indo-EuropeansAround 5600 BCE, the tranquil freshwater lake that would become the Black Sea was violently transformed.

In the frozen heart of Antarctica lies a truth that the governments of the world have worked for decades to conceal.

Focusing on North Mull - north of Glen More, but excluding Craignure, Torosay and Brolas - this book is an anthology of the tales and traditions of Mull in the words of those who tell them.

The Magpie and the Wardrobe A Curiosity of Folklore, Magic and Spells, is a lovingly curated compendium of time-honoured traditions and curious customs that have bewitched us for generations.

Drawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil.

Through a careful rendering of the text, deciphering its hidden ironies, Mr.

Fairy tales, often said to be 'timeless' and fundamentally 'oral,' have a long written history.

For poets, priests, and politicians and especially ordinary Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large.

Combining traditional Appalachian folktale plots with a contemporary sensibility, writer and storyteller Anne Shelby creates fourteen lively, original stories of a funny, magical, yet familiar world.

Southern folklife is the heart of southern culture.

Decoration Day is a late spring or summer tradition that involves cleaning a community cemetery, decorating it with flowers, holding a religious service in the cemetery, and having dinner on the ground.

Archie Green shipwright, folklorist, teacher, and lobbyist was a legendary figure in the field of American folklore and vernacular culture studies.

The eagerly-awaited sequel to Shadowmagic.

The Nart sagas are to the Caucasus what Greek mythology is to Western civilization.

The burnt-red badlands of Montana's Hell Creek are a vast graveyard of the Cretaceous dinosaurs that lived 68 million years ago.

This collection of Korean folk tales is sure to delight the hearts of all children between the ages of eight and eighty.

'Elegant and deeply sensory' Katherine May, author of WinteringAn exhilarating leap into darkness in all its forms, enchantments and history: the new work of non-fiction from award-winning poet and writer Jean SpracklandDarkness can make the most ordinary activity feel adventurous.

A classic work of comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil.

A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature.

A mythic journey of psychological transformation and the development of the selfThe renowned tale of Amor and Psyche, from Apuleius's second-century Latin novel The Golden Ass, is one of the most charming fragments of classical literature.

A classic work of comparative mythology by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerDrawing from Eastern and Western literatures, Heinrich Zimmer presents a selection of stories linked together by their common concern for the problem of our eternal conflict with the forces of evil.

A classic introduction to Indian art by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerIn this landmark study of Indian art and religion, Heinrich Zimmer offers a compelling introduction to the visual language of India's sacred traditions.

A classic introduction to Indian art by acclaimed scholar Heinrich ZimmerIn this landmark study of Indian art and religion, Heinrich Zimmer offers a compelling introduction to the visual language of India's sacred traditions.

The mountains of Bosnia and Herzegovina are not just stone and snow.

A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century's leading Jungian psychologistsThis book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole.

A landmark account of the evolution of consciousness by one of the twentieth century's leading Jungian psychologistsThis book draws on a full range of world mythology to show how individual consciousness undergoes the same archetypal stages of development as human consciousness as a whole.

Deep in the mist-shrouded hollows and ancient limestone bluffs of the Ozarks lies a hidden corridor — a fault-aligned seam where the Night Dwellers walk between worlds.

Skunk Ape: Florida's Hidden GiantIn the steamy swamps and palmetto thickets of central Florida, something ancient and massive has never stopped walking.

Mr BaloyiTruth By Last EldersWhat happens when the last keepers of wisdom begin to disappear?

What happens when the soul goes missing?

Take an unforgettable journey across the heart of India and Sri Lanka, tracing the path of the epic Ramayana across sacred geographies.

Take a step if you dare into the shadows, and discover the blood-curdling history of horror across the world in this gruesomely illustrated title.

History is rarely told through the food people ate.

Beyond the famous haunted cities and well known legends, America is filled with small towns where the dead are still said to walk.

What if the history of the occult is not a collection of fairy tales but a trail of real power, real fear, and real consequences?

Rothiemurchus is one of Scotland's most atmospheric ancient forests, a Highland landscape of pine, mist, ruined church ground, clan memory, and old supernatural warning.

Scotland's witch trials remain one of the darkest chapters in the nation's history.

England was once full of things.

In the autumn of 1889, a quiet farmhouse in Clarendon Township, Pontiac County, Quebec, became the centre of one of Canada's most unsettling and unusual paranormal cases.

Pendle Hill is more than a postcard landmark in Lancashire.

Ireland has always kept its dead close.

Why do people fear black cats, avoid certain numbers, hide shoes in walls, wear charms against the evil eye, or believe dreams can predict the future?

Before she became a demon, a warning, a witch, a goddess, and a symbol of female rebellion, Lilith was a shadow at the edge of the night.