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Words cannot explain to an outsider the sight and feel of the Japanese stage.

Words cannot explain to an outsider the sight and feel of the Japanese stage.

This classic collection of Korean folk and fairy tales is of cultural enormous importance for Koreans and Westerners alike.

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

Embrace the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of myths and folklore.

Witches, ghosts, fairies.

An activist reveals how the mischievous personality of the universal archetype can be applied in modern society to inspire a better world.

In this book William Mackenzie records a world of local legend, folklore and superstition, and charts the changes he saw in his lifetime in agriculture, education, the Church and, of course, emigration.

Drawing from her work as state folklorist, Emily Hilliard explores contemporary folklife in West Virginia and challenges the common perception of both folklore and Appalachian culture as static, antiquated forms, offering instead the concept of visionary folklore as a future-focused, materialist, and collaborative approach to cultural work.

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania.

Drawing from her work as state folklorist, Emily Hilliard explores contemporary folklife in West Virginia and challenges the common perception of both folklore and Appalachian culture as static, antiquated forms, offering instead the concept of visionary folklore as a future-focused, materialist, and collaborative approach to cultural work.

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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.

A thousand unique gravestones cluster around old Presbyterian churches in the piedmont of the two Carolinas and in central Pennsylvania.

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

Seit Jahrhunderten faszinieren Vampire die Menschheit, durchdringen Legenden und Mythen und wecken zugleich Furcht und Bewunderung.

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

This classic text of Japanese culture contains a wealth of information about traditional Japan and Japanese customs.

This collection of multicultural children's fairy tales from Asia presents 15 classic stories that kids and parents will love.

Did you know that ferrets often fart right next to their own heads?

Just how near is the end of the world?

The most compelling, most absurd and most shocking conspiracy theories in one stunningly illustrated hardback edition.

Declassified explores some of the most remarkable revelations to have emerged from top secret documents brought to light in recent years.

Mysteries of the Ancient World examines some of the most bizarre, surprising and unexplained phenomena of the ancient world.

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The book presents a bold and transformative exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought.

The book presents a bold and transformative exploration of how Pentecostal theology can be revitalized by critically engaging with the Nicene Creed through the lens of African spirituality and decolonial thought.

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

Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian peoples.

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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.

Even Monkeys Fall From Trees: The Wit and Wisdom of Japanese Proverbs, with a foreword by Edward G.

"e;A richly entertaining series of Hawaiian tales with explanatory facts, which will delight and inform both the folklore fan and the general reader"e; The Honolulu AdvertiserHawaiian Legends of Volcanoes made its first appearance in 1916, in both American and British editions, as the third in a series that represented a pioneering study of Hawaiian folklore.

Este libro es un viaje para descubrir a La Diosa, el sagrado principio femenino que yace en tu interior, y en todas las cosas.

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

In his captivating study of faith and class, John Hayes examines the ways folk religion in the early twentieth century allowed the Souths 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.

The devil is the most charismatic and important figure in the blues tradition.

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.

In the first comprehensive exploration of the history and practice of folk medicine in the Appalachian region, Anthony Cavender melds folklore, medical anthropology, and Appalachian history and draws extensively on oral histories and archival sources from the nineteenth century to the present.

In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.

In this modern account of the genesis of a great medieval myth, celebrated science fiction author Robert Silverberg's explores the mysterious origins of Prester John, the astonishing Christian potentate of the East.

Drawing from her work as state folklorist, Emily Hilliard explores contemporary folklife in West Virginia and challenges the common perception of both folklore and Appalachian culture as static, antiquated forms, offering instead the concept of visionary folklore as a future-focused, materialist, and collaborative approach to cultural work.

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.

This collection of multicultural children's fairy tales from Asia presents 15 classic stories that kids and parents will love.

Myths & Legends of the Polynesians is an account of the history, art and mythology of the Polynesian peoples.

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