Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge

Danish Folktales, Legends, and Other Stories is a collection of translated and annotated Nordic folklore that presents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival material.

Clear, concise yet wide-ranging, The Ancient World in Minutes is the quickest way to understand the great civilizations of the distant past.

David Clarke opens The National Archives' own X Files to uncover the secret, official accounts behind legendary paranormal and extraordinary phenomena.

How did nineteenth-century historians construct the popular understanding of witchcraft as representing the irrational past?

The Oxford Handbook of American Folklore and Folklife Studies surveys the materials, approaches, concepts, and applications of the field to provide a sweeping guide to American folklore and folklife, culture, history, and society.

In the Sunday Times bestseller Gates of Fire, Steven Pressfield tells the breathtaking story of the legendary Spartans: the men and women who helped shaped our history and have themselves become as immortal as their gods.

'This is history as it should be.

This book explores the intellectual contexts for Mr Casaubon, a central character in George Eliot''s classic and much-loved novel Middlemarch.

'Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland' Cameron McNeish, The HeraldRising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland's Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin.

Entlang der tropischen Küsten Ostafrikas, wo die Wellen des Indischen Ozeans Geschichten flüstern und der Wind den Atem alter Zeiten trägt, lebt eine geheimnisvolle Kultur: die Swahili.

*; Details how exploratory probes sent to Mars in the 1970s triggered a plethora of anomalous events, particularly crop circles (glyphs), and how these events are messages from ET intelligence to help us send a human mission to Mars *; Reveals how the anomalous Cydonia region of Mars fits the Golden Ratio Spiral and looks at links between Martian formations and Earth's ancient sites *; Illustrated throughout with color photographs, maps, and diagrams In this full-color study based on 25 years of research, Mary Bennett explores the ancient and modern connections between Mars and Earth as well as how extraterrestrial intelligences are trying to assist us in constructing a viable spacecraft to take a human crew swiftly and safely to Mars.

Atlantis – ein versunkener Kontinent, ein ewiges Rätsel, ein Symbol der Menschheitsgeschichte.

*; Examines the intricate carvings, chambers, and structures, revealing the site's acoustical properties, shamanic symbolism, and astronomical alignments*; Reveals how Karahan Tepe was used by shamans to connect with the Milky Way's Galactic bulge in its role as the head of the cosmic serpent*; Explains how the site's builders, who created the world's first post ice age civilization, are remembered in myth and legend as the Watchers and Nephilim of Jewish religious tradition and as the Anunnaki gods of Sumerian mythologyConsidered the most important archaeological discovery of the 21st century, Karahan Tepe is an enormous complex of stone structures in southeastern Turkey covering an estimated ten acres.

Offers a transnational perspective on 17th-century English republicanism, focusing on the lived experiences of English republican exiles.

During the nineteenth century, Lemuria was imagined as a land that once bridged India and Africa but disappeared into the ocean millennia ago, much like Atlantis.

This is the extraordinary story of Knight and Lomas's fourteen year quest to uncover the secret teachings buried beneath Roslin Chapel near Edinburgh.

The coronavirus pandemic struck the world in a very distinctive way: experience from past pandemics or from more recent outbreaks could give us only a limited understanding of how the situation was likely to unfold.

This book is among the very few publications offering to the English-speaking readership significant insights into contemporary Lithuanian folklore research.

A lively discussion of the sexual life contained in the Arabian Nights, appealing to academics and general readers.

First ever critical study of Tolkien's little-known essay, which reveals how language invention shaped the creation of Middle-earth and beyond, to George R R Martin's Game of Thrones.

Proverbs are crystals of knowledge acquired from daily life and passed from generation to generation.

From THE SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Manda Scott, this is the final, heart-rending instalment of the magnificent retelling of the life of Britain's great warrior queen.

African American culture has a rich tradition of folktales.

By the Roman age the traditional stories of Greek myth had long since ceased to reflect popular culture.

This oral history shares stories of Kentucky nurses—from frontier births to emergency rooms and from the early twentieth-century to the present day.

This classic exploration of the Goddess through time and throughout the world draws on religious, cultural, and archaeological sources to recreate the Goddess religion that is humanitys heritage.

What makes Canada a different kind of society from the United States?

Beyond its housing estates and identikit high streets there is another Britain.

Far from mere idle tales, rumors are a valuable window into our anxieties and fears.

This book is an account of the personal and collective struggles of First Nations people and how the principles which held traditional societies together can be used today to promote harmonious and cooperative relationships by both aboriginals and non-aboriginals.

Provides convincing evidence that angels, demons, and fallen angels were flesh-and-blood members of a giant race predating humanity, spoken of in the Bible as the Nephilim.

Examines how the similarities of symbols and wisdom across many cultures point to an ancient civilizing plan and system of ancient instruction *; Reveals the shared cosmological knowledge of Dogon and Maori cultures, ancient Egypt, Gobekli Tepe, Vedic India, the pre-Indian Sakti civilization, Buddhism, the Tibetan Bon religion, and the kabbalistic tradition of the Hebrews *; Explores symbols and techniques used to frame and preserve instructed knowledge as it was transmitted orally from generation to generation *; Explains how this shared ancient knowledge relates to the precessional year and the cycles of time known as the yugas Exploring the mystery of why so many ancient cultures, separated by time and distance, share remarkably similar cosmological philosophies and religious symbolism, Laird Scranton reveals how this shared creation tradition upholds the idea that ancient instruction gave birth to the great civilizations, each of which preserves fragments of the original knowledge.

Was, wenn die Tempelritter mehr bewahrten als nur den christlichen Glauben?

If tree branches scratching at your window on a stormy April night or the hot, sticky oppression of a stifling summer's day puts fear into your heart.

Ginnungagap, the Gaping Abyss, was once what separated the realms of Ice and Fire, keeping them in balance and sparing the other realms from their ravages.

In the USA, politically conservative and right-wing apocalyptic evangelicals hold that climate change science and Covid-19 are fabrications governed by manifest evil.

Legends are arguably the most common narrative form of folklore in American society.

Across the country and around the world, people avidly engage in the cultural practice of hunting.

This literary companion guides the reader into the labyrinth of storytelling within The Arabian Nights.

African American folklore dates back 240 years and has had a significant impact on American culture from the slavery period to the modern day.

The Old English epic poem Beowulf has an established reputation as a canonical text.

The "e;Happiest Place on Earth"e; opened in 1955 during a trying time in American life--the Cold War.