Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history.

For at least 20,000 years, masking has been a mark of cultural evolution and an indication of magical-religious sophistication in society.

In the 1990s alone, more than 400 works on angels were published, adding to an already burgeoning genre.

Among the world's myriad cultures and their associated calendars, the idea of a "e;New Year"e; is relative and hardly specifies a universal celebration or even a universal point in time.

Myths from the ancient world usually have some supernatural element, a component often generated from a particular intoxicant.

Why did the most read work in English literature go without cinematic adaptation for so long?

The History of Middle-earth traces the evolution of J.

The legend of King Arthur is embedded in British and American culture.

Vampires have been a fixture of film since Bela Lugosi brought Bram Stoker's Dracula to life on the big screen in 1931.

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to be eaten!

Drawing on dramatic accounts by European colonials, and on detailed studies by folklorists and anthropologists, this work explores intriguing age-old Asian beliefs and claims that man-eating tigers and "e;little tigers,"e; or leopards alike, were in various ways supernatural.

Communities throughout the United States were convulsed in the 1980s and early 1990s by accusations, often without a shred of serious evidence, that respectable men and women in their midstmany of them trusted preschool teacherssecretly gathered in far reaching conspiracies to rape and terrorize children.

How were the hunter-gatherers of G bekli Tepe able to build a series of stunning stone monuments six thousand years before Stonehenge?

This book is a dictionary of British (native, naturalised and cultivated) plants and the folklore associated with them.

A few years ago the Dorset Federation of Womens Institutes organised a Local History Competition.

Gunkel's classic work of 1917 is a systematic investigation of the Old Testament in the light of the then emerging principles of folktale scholarship; he makes use, for example, not only of the contributions of the Grimm brothers but is aware of the research into classifications of tale types represented by the ground-breaking work of A.

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERA dark, evocative and unforgettable fantasy debut steeped in Hungarian history and Jewish mythology, perfect for fans of Naomi Novik and Katherine Arden.

A magical and captivating coming of age novel set in medieval Russia - perfect for fans of Erin Morgenstern's The Night Circus and Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials.

A spellbinding new book by the much-acclaimed writer, a journey to South Africa in search of the lost people called the /Xam - a haunting book about the brutality of colonial frontiers and the fate of those they dispossess.

'It isn't often that one encounters a sensibility so interested in our world - and so compelling in its powers of attentiveness.

'This might be the best book I've read all year' JOANNE HARRIS'A glorious, pitch-black fairytale of a book' KIRSTY LOGAN 'A masterclass in storytelling' DAILY MAIL'Deeply unsettling' CAITLIN STARLING'Deliciously terrifying' GUARDIAN Everyone knew bestselling novelist Cassandra Tipp had twice got away with murder.

Infuse a drop of magick into your everyday life.

Beginning with Yuka, a 39,000-year-old mummified woolly mammoth recently found in the Siberian permafrost, each of the sixteen essays in Animals Strike Curious Poses investigates a different famous animal named and immortalised by humans.

Shortlisted for the 2018 Royal Society Investment Science Book Prize'Endlessly fascinating.

'Charlotte Higgins's Red Thread is a masterwork' Ali SmithA thrillingly original, labyrinthine journey through myth, art, literature, history, archaeology and memoir.

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

This vintage volume contains Andrew Lang's 1892 work, "e;The Green Fairy Book"e;.

'Beauty and the Beast and Other Stories - Illustrated by John Hassall' contains three classics of the fairy tale genre: 'Beauty and the Beast', 'Jack the Giant-Killer', and 'The Three Little Pigs.

This wonderfully humourous tale for all ages is the legend of a dragon-slaying by a knight on Wharncliffe Crags in South Yorkshire.

Open the book, and you will find yourselves in a world of magic.

From the epic adventures of gods and heroes to tales of the world's beginning, this illustrated collection of myths and legends from Greece and Rome is a captivating exploration of the tales that shaped the ancient world.

The folk tales of the Inuit are some of the most unique in the entire world, completely isolated for thousands of years in the icy, windswept north, they believed they were the only peoples on Earth and this isolation is clear in their atmospheric, stunning myths and legends.

This vintage book contains a fantastic collection of stories taken from Greek mythology.

The legends of the Hawaiian Islands are as diverse as those of any other country of the world.

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature.

Edmund Dulac's Picture Book for the French Red Cross is a stunning work, produced in the midst of the First World War, by a true genius of illustration.

The House of the Sleeping Winds and Other Stories Some Based on Cornish Folklore is a bright wholesome volume of stories, founded on the lore of the old-world Cornish folk.

This classic collection of Grimm's Fairy Tales was originally published in 1868.

This vintage book deals with the subject of Satanism and demonology, looking in particular at the Black Mass and incubi and succubi.

A historical survey of the myths, legends, and superstitions of Lowland Scotland.

This wonderful history of British folk and faerie lore focuses on Welsh tales and legends of fairy life.

A manual written for any social scenario that might occur to somebody from the upper-middle classes at the turn of the 20th century.

La Belle Au Bois Dormant’ is the French-language version of ‘Sleeping Beauty’.

The following tales are an outcome of a long residence in New Zealand, and of many opportunities whilst travelling amongst the Maoris of becoming acquainted with their folk-lore, superstitions, and customs.

Pook Press celebrates the great Golden Age of Illustration in children's literature.

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Ada Dennis is a wonderful collection of classic fairy tales including 'Little Snow White', 'Rapunzel', 'Hop-O'-My-Thumb', 'The Three Little Men in the Wood', 'Snow White and Rose Red', 'Clever Grethel', 'The Giants Three Golden Hairs', and many more.

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Ada Dennis is a wonderful collection of classic fairy tales including 'Little Snow White', 'Rapunzel', 'Hop-O'-My-Thumb', 'The Three Little Men in the Wood', 'Snow White and Rose Red', 'Clever Grethel', 'The Giants Three Golden Hairs', and many more.

James Stephens' collection of Irish Fairy Tales is presented in this beautiful volume alongside gorgeous illustrations by Arthur Rackham.