Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

All three books in the American Book Award–winning Memory of Fire Trilogy available in a single volume for the first time.

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The New York Times-bestselling author on the universal language of symbols, expressed through dream and myths, and how they illuminate our humanity.

Purple star is an angelic being, who is a star that shines in the night sky but also can transform into human shape living on the spiritual realm.

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Headstrong heroines and hot-tempered chieftains, loch monsters and hill fairies, cattle raids and clan feuds, wise animals and foolish saints: the Scottish Highlands' folktales date back centuries and preserve the history and beliefs of a people deeply rooted in their land and culture.

An ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved.

The song "e;John Henry,"e; perhaps America's greatest folk ballad, is about an African-American steel driver who raced and beat a steam drill, dying "e;with his hammer in his hand"e; from the effort.

The original Star Wars trilogy famously follows Joseph Campbell's model for the hero's journey, making Luke Skywalker's story the new hero quest for a modern age.

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Mythology for centuries has served as humanity's window into understanding its distant past.

Quest narratives are as old as Western culture.

Every culture in the world has a version of the story of Cinderella.

Curious about the chains that bound Fenriswulf in Norse mythology?

This is a comprehensive history of the world's midwinter gift-givers, showcasing the extreme diversity in their depictions as well as the many traits and functions these characters share.

From the household cat to horses that can fly, a surprisingly wide range of animals feature in religions and mythologies all across the world.

The pagan mythology of the Vikings offers a rich metaphor for consciousness.

Mythology--circulated in sacred stories (myths) and their reenactments (rituals)--is the basis of any society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity.

For almost three centuries, the "e;Pennsylvania Dutch"e;--descended from German immigrants--have practiced white magic, known in their dialect as Braucherei (from the German "e;brauchen,"e; to use) or Powwowing.

The early medieval manuscripts of Ireland and Britain contain tantalizing clues about the cosmology, religion and mythology of native Celtic cultures, despite censorship and revision by Christian redactors.

The Caribbean islands have a vibrant oral folklore.

After a century of reinvention and, frequently, reinterpretation, Western movies continue to contribute to the cultural understanding of the United States.

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana.

Our understanding of Celtic astrology is based mainly on the speculations of modern authors--mostly drawn from classical Greek and Roman writings--and suffers from many misconceptions.

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide.

Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god.

Throughout history, men have prayed to gods and poets have interpreted ancient myths for new audiences.

This examination of the heroic journey in world mythology casts the protagonist as a personification of nature--a "e;botanical hero"e; one might say--who begins the quest in a metaphorical seed-like state, then sprouts into a period of verdant strength.

The origins of the vampire can be traced through oral traditions, ancient texts and archaeological discoveries, its nature varying from one culture to the next up until the 20th century.

A literary genre that pervades 21st-century popular culture, science fiction creates mythologies that make statements about humanity's place in the universe and embody an intersection of science, religion and philosophy.

The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC-AD 43).

Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt.

Of all the anomalous phenomenon reported, ghost sightings are by far the most common.

Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas.

This new English translation of the Faroe-Islander Saga (Faereyinga saga)--a great medieval Icelandic saga--tells the story of the first settlers on these wind-swept islands at the edge of the Scandinavian world.

"e;Here there be dragons"e;--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond.

This examination of myths from around the world focuses on the role nature plays within mythology.

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Outlander is much more than a television romance about a World War II nurse and a Jacobite soldier in a fetching kilt.

This book studies the treatment of science and technology from ancient myths to current works, demonstrating the importance of science to human civilization as evidenced in literature.

Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context.

At the 2013 "e;Celebrating The Hobbit"e; conference at Valparaiso University--marking the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and the first installment of Peter Jackson's Hobbit movies--two plenary papers were presented: "e;Anchoring the Myth: The Impact of The Hobbit on Tolkien's Legendarium"e; by John D.

Expand your bird knowledge with this gorgeous encyclopedia of nearly 400 bird species around the world, unique for its inclusion of both their physical and mythological characteristics.

The story of Jason and the Argonauts is one of the most famous in Greek myth, and its development from the oldest layers of Greek mythology down to the modern age encapsulates the dramatic changes in faith, power and culture that Western civilization has seen over the past three millennia.

Ubiquitous and enduring, myths are an inherent part of culture.

This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous presence of the divine feminine in Russia, Central Europe, France, Britain, Ireland and the northern regions.

Csenge Virag Zalka, a Hungarian storyteller, has collected 55 folktales from around the world about supernatural abilities like superhuman strength, invulnerability, flying, heightened senses, speed, invisibility, healing, agility, precognition, telepathy, fire manipulation, teleportation, water powers, and shifting.