Discover a complete guide to Imbolc, including spells, feasts, folklore, and crafts to help you celebrate the sacred Sabbat in your own way, incorporating ancient traditions and magical practices as we prepare for Spring.
This book explores the way stories that emerge from the garden and are consumed in the digital space can become a nourished method of environmental communication.
The book examines how medical knowledge is produced around bodies that do not fit in the heteronormative framework of the state's rationale and processes.
The book examines how medical knowledge is produced around bodies that do not fit in the heteronormative framework of the state's rationale and processes.
Ein feministisches Pladoyer fur die Anerkennung weiblicher Wut von Platz-1-SPIEGEL-Bestseller-Autorin Tara-Louise Wittwer alias @wastarasagt Seit Jahrhunderten werden Frauen unterdruckt.
The Russian bestseller about love and second chances, brimming with warmth and humour In the tiny village of Maran nestled high in the Armenian mountains, a place where dreams, curses and miracles are taken very seriously, a close-knit community bickers, gossips and laughs, untouched by the passage of time.
From the #1New York Timesbestselling World Almanac comes a fullcolor, fulloffun, oversize book packed with thousands of awesome facts about Americaeverything about the 50 states and beyond.
Theological Hermeneutics and Daly's verification process offers an original overview of Mary Daly's inputs to the theological hermeneutics from the feminist perspective.
Theological Hermeneutics and Daly's verification process offers an original overview of Mary Daly's inputs to the theological hermeneutics from the feminist perspective.
Sources of Evil: Studies in Mesopotamian Exorcistic Lore is a collection of thirteen essays on the body of knowledge employed by ancient Near Eastern healing experts, most prominently the 'exorcist' and the 'physician', to help patients who were suffering from misfortunes caused by divine anger, transgressions of taboos, demons, witches, or other sources of evil.
This volume examines the often-overlooked crisis of sexual misconduct within Korean Protestant churches, exploring how militarized culture, hierarchical power, and institutional silence contribute to the abuse of congregants—especially those in vulnerable situations.
Winner: Fabiola Cabeza de Baca AwardHelen Tiegs didnt take to driving a tractor when she became a farmers wife, but after fifty years she considers herself the hub of the family operation.
The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song, traced over 1,400 yearsStories about Fionn macCumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band, the Fianna, have engaged audiences for more than a millennium.
The evolution of the Fenian tradition of story and song, traced over 1,400 yearsStories about Fionn macCumhaill (also known as Finn McCool) and his roving warrior band, the Fianna, have engaged audiences for more than a millennium.
William Motherwell (1797-1835), journalist, poet, man-of-letters, wit, civil servant, and outspoken conservative, published his anthology of ballads, Minstrelsy: Ancient and Modern, in 1827.
The people of the Kentucky mountains and the southern Appalachians preserved a language alive with colorful turns of phrase and whimsical wit and for their amusement they created a rich vein of oral lore-songs, tales, and games.
Along the isolated headwaters of the Kentucky River-Cutshin and Greasy creeks-folklorist Leonard Roberts found the Couches, a remarkable mountain family of gifted memory and imagination.
Although folklore has been collected for centuries, its possible unconscious content and significance have been explored only since the advent of psychoanalytic theory.
Greek vases and Peruvian bottles, Chinese bronzes and African masks, Tel Brak idols and Egyptian tomb paintings-artifacts ancient and modern reveal man's universal fascination with the eye and his awe before its mysterious powers.
The oral tradition of Kentucky is one of the most rich and interesting in the nation and has attracted a number of outstanding men and women-scholars and writers, teachers and singers-who have devoted their energies to Kentucky's folk and their ways.
In the early years of this century, miners from nearly every country in Europe and Asia Minor migrated to West Virginia to seek employment in its great collieries.
At the dawn of the American Revolution, 39-year-old Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian, is the widowed partner of the legendary Sir William Johnson and mother of their eight young children.
At the dawn of the American Revolution, 39-year-old Molly Brant, a Mohawk Indian, is the widowed partner of the legendary Sir William Johnson and mother of their eight young children.
South from Hell-fer-Sartin, a short creek flowing into the Middle Fork of the Kentucky River, lies one of the of the most isolated regions in Kentucky.
Happiness for Beginners: Simple Habits to Cultivate Joy and PositivityWhat if happiness wasn't something you had to chase, but something you could cultivate from within?
The first book of its kind, Putting Folklore to Use provides guidance to folklorists but also informs practitioners in other fields about how to use folklore studies to augment their own studies.
