Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge

During the long, cold December weeks leading up to Christmas, as we spend our time frantically panicking about the financial side of the festive season, it's all too easy to forget the traditional nativity story.

Megan est une adolescente de treize ans qui réalise posséder des pouvoirs psychiques que les autres n’ont pas.

Ayquina, teatralidad de la fiesta religiosa popular de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe" de Manuel Letelier aborda una fiesta religiosa poco conocida en nuestro país.

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An initiatory and practical guide to creative alchemy Shares hermetic and alchemical techniques for liberating creative expression and looks at the zodiacal and planetary timing of creative operations Explains how to work with and transmute alchemical energies for increased levels of insight, intuition, and imaginative expression Explores the connections between Surrealism and alchemy, as well as the rich and complicated symbolism of alchemical artIn this initiatory guide to the Hermetic art of alchemy, artist Marlene Seven Bremner reveals how the alchemical opus, the Great Work, offers a practical means for liberating the authentic creator within and attaining gnosis, or true self-knowledge.

1977 und 1980 erscheint ein Katalog mit Kunstkunstobjekten aus dem Nahen und Mittleren Osten.

Why debunked political rumors persist and how to combat themPolitical rumors and misinformation pollute the political landscape.

It is often assumed that the female characters found in popular folk and fairy tales are little more than inconsequential stereotypes--mostly serving as hapless victims in need of rescue, boring one-dimensional princesses, or egotistical and conniving villains.

May Kennedy McCord, lovingly nicknamed "e;First Lady of the Ozarks"e; and "e;Queen of the Hillbillies,"e; spent half a century sharing the history, songs, and stories of her native Ozarks through newspaper columns, radio programs, and music festivals.

Devil worship, black magic, and witchcraft have long captivated anthropologists as well as the general public.

When this work one that contributes to both the history and anthropology fields first appeared in 1982, it was hailed as a landmark study of the role of folklore in nation-building.

In nineteenth-century Europe the ruling elites viewed the theater as a form of communication which had enormous importance.

Belief in magic and particularly the power of witchcraft was once a deep and enduring presence in popular culture.

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Demonstrating the intimate connections among our public, political, and personal lives, these essays by Robert Cantwell explore the vernacular culture of everyday life.

In many places around the world, flutes and the sounds of flutes are powerful magical forces for seduction and love, protection, vegetal and human fertility, birth and death, and other aspects of human and nonhuman behavior.

Made-from-Bone is the first work to provide a complete set of English translations of narratives about the mythic past and its transformations from the indigenous Arawak-speaking people of South America.

"e;A sharp analysis of the quest for unreal critters-cryptids, as they are called-and the people who pursue them .

This collection of exemplary essays by internationally recognized scholars examines the fairy tale from historical, folkloristic, literary, and psychoanalytical points of view.

During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions-most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East.

Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year.

In the more than 140 years since his death, Abraham Lincoln has become America's most revered president.

Europe has produced many beautiful folktales that have survived time and war.

This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half of the eighteenth century.

Folktales are used by elders to teach the young generation about good and bad.

How do seas differ from oceans?

What are the beautiful and scary animals you see in the great Australian outback?

History holds important lessons that shape the future.

In this educational book, we're going to go over the Roman and Greek gods of Jupiter and Mars.

Let's walk through the many beautiful sites in North America!

A child's imagination is a wonderful thing, and it is something that should be nurtured and encouraged.

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the South's poor--both white and black--to listen, borrow, and learn from each other about what it meant to live as Christians in a world of severe struggle.

Take a step back in time to the origins of Japan's creation mythtold here for the very first time in illustrated form.

Go around North America and learn about the best places to visit even before you have your papers ready.

A revealing look at rural lives and lifestyles that have all but disappeared today.

When United Airlines workers reported a UFO at OHare Airport in November 2006, it was met with the typical denials and hush-up that usually accompany such sightings.

Inject the very wonderful and lively Greek and Roman myths in your children's systems because they have tons to learn from them.

Make your beautiful kids explore the folktales in the European setting with this Cinderella and Beyond book.

King Arthur is well known in folklore as a hero.

The past is in the past but why do children have to learn them?

At first grade, your child is expected to know all the continents of the world.

Help your child understand what his/her senses are with this easy-to-remember informative book.

Who says geography is difficult to learn?

By considering the folklore of Cornwall in a Northern European context, this book casts light on a treasury of often-ignored traditions.

Cut your kids some slack and lead them to an adventure-filled destination that is the Norse Folktales.

Children naturally like to hear about other children.

This book depicts the wonder of the world of Dolphins in all its glory.

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