Lightly falling snow, covering everything in sight with a soft mantle of white, burning luminarias and mellow-light farolitos, the warm adobe architecture, the peace and quiet that settles over the land on Christmas Eve, all tend to strengthen the comparison between Santa Fe and the land where Christ was born.
This collection of supernatural tales includes "e;The Talking Corpse"e;; "e;The Hound of Goshen"e;; "e;The Ring"e;; "e;The Phantom Rider of Bush River"e;; "e;The Witch Cat"e;; "e;The Gray Man"e;; "e;Tsali, the Cherokee Brave"e;; "e;The Ghost of Litchfield"e;; "e;City of Death"e;; "e;Treasure Hunt"e;; "e;House of the Opening Door"e;; "e;The Ghosts of Hagley"e;; "e;Return from the Dead"e;; "e;Whistle While You Haunt"e;; "e;The Brown Mountain Lights"e;; "e;Alice of the Hermitage"e;; "e;The Night the Spirits Called"e;; and "e;Swamp Girl"e;.
A broad and eloquent study on the relatively overlooked population of single women in the slaveholding SouthSingle, White, Slaveholding Women in the Nineteenth-Century American South investigates the lives of unmarried white women-from the pre- to the post-Civil War South-within a society that placed high value on women's marriage and motherhood.
Women Mystics and Sufi Shrines in India combines historical data with years of ethnographic fieldwork to investigate women's participation in the culture of Sufi shrines in India and the manner in which this participation both complicates and sustains traditional conceptions of Islamic womanhood.
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.
A classic that has been in print since its first publication in 1983, Womenfolks is both a personal memoir and a meditation on the often pernicious mythologies of southern cultural history.
Arkansas's rich folk tradition is shown by the variety of its manifestations: a 250-year-old ballad, an archaic method of hewing railroad crossties with a broadax, the use of poultices and toddies to treat the common cold, and swamps of evil repute are all parts of the tradition that constitutes Arkansas folklore.
Write to Celebrate, Heal, and Free the Wild Woman WithinIn her years as a writing coach, Judy Reeves has found twin urges in women: they yearn to reclaim a true nature that resides below the surface of daily life and to give it voice.
The mantra and kirtan (call-and-response devotional chants) of yoga practice sometimes get short shrift in the West because they aren't well understood.
More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the WorldGroundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe.
Inventing Scrooge uncovers the real-life inspirations from Charles Dickens' own world that led to the fascinating creation of his most beloved tale: A Christmas Carol.
KENNETH BURKE: FROM MYTH TO ECOLOGY is the first full-length study of a remarkable thinker's approach to those founding narratives, those essential structures of thought, which cannot be credited to any one individual but rather belong to the whole community.
Celebrate the unique diversity and vibrancy of the Philippines through an in-depth exploration of the stories, traditions, songs, crafts, and recipes of the many different regions of the country.
Las culturas incas y mayas se vieron a si mismas como “los niños de la luz”--descendientes de los reinos celestiales--y sus profecías predicen de un tiempo de gran despertamiento espiritual.
Scientific confirmation of advanced civilization at the end of the last ice age, the solar catastrophe that destroyed it, and what the evidence means for our future *; Demonstrates, based on the 12,000-year-old megalithic complex of Gbekli Tepe, that advanced civilization extends thousands of years further back than generally acknowledged *; Examines the catastrophic solar outbursts that ended the last ice age, wiping out antediluvian civilization and incinerating much of the evidence of that period *; Reveals data that show solar outbursts powerful enough to devastate modern society could return in the future Building upon his revolutionary theory that the Sphinx dates back much further than 2500 BCE, geologist Robert Schoch reveals scientific evidence of advanced civilization predating ancient Egypt, Sumeria, and Greece, as well as the catastrophe that destroyed it nearly 12,000 years ago and what its legacy can teach us about our own future.
A comprehensive dictionary of sacred and magical gem lore that draws on the rarest source texts of Antiquity and the Middle Ages *; Reveals the healing and magical virtues of familiar gemstones, such as amethyst, emerald, and diamond, as well as the lore surrounding exotic stones such as astrios, a stone celebrated by ancient magicians *; Examines bezoars (stones formed in animals' bodies) and ';magnets' that attract materials other than metal *; Based on ancient Arabic, Greek, Jewish, and European sources, ranging from the observations of Pliny the Elder to extremely rare texts such as the Picatrix and Damigeron's Virtue of Stones Our ancestors believed stones were home to sacred beings of power, entities that if properly understood and cultivated could provide people protection from ill fortune, envy, and witchcraft; grant invisibility and other magical powers; improve memory; and heal the sick from a wide variety of diseases.
The role of music in the evolution of humanity *; Reveals how a hierarchy of initiates, evolved spiritual intelligences, and devas actively influenced the musical compositions of geniuses to transmit great truths through music *; Explores the influence of the classical composers Bach, Handel, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Wagner, and Strauss--from Beethoven's influence on the creation of psychoanalysis to Chopin's musical influence on the emancipation of women Composer and author Cyril Scott explores the role of music in the evolution of humanity and shows how it has pushed human evolution forward.
Exposes the many cycles of monument destruction and cultural suppression in Egypt from antiquity to the present day *; Details the vandalism of Egyptian antiquities and suppression of ancient knowledge under foreign rulers who sought to cleanse Egypt of its ';pagan' past *; Reveals the real reason behind Napoleon's invasion of Egypt: Freemasonry *; Shows how the censorship of nonofficial Egyptology as well as new archaeological discoveries continued under Antiquities Minister Zahi Hawass Called the ';Mirror of Heaven' by Hermes-Thoth and regarded as the birthplace of civilization, science, religion, and magic, Egypt has ignited the imagination of all who come in contact with it since ancient times--from Pythagoras and Plato to Alexander the Great and Napoleon to modern Egyptologists the world over.
A spiritual guidance system with rituals to tap into and manifest feminine divine energy through the Motherpeace deck*; Contains over 20 rituals, exercises, and readings that integrate tarot with spiritual practice, rites, and celebrations *; Demonstrates how Motherpeace cards may be used to improve health, relationships, and personal insight; celebrate holidays; and commune with the divine forces of the universe *; By the cocreator of the Motherpeace deck (more than 200,000 copies sold) First printed during the crest of the women's spirituality movement, the Motherpeace deck created a sensation as a multicultural tarot designed specifically for women.
Visionary historian Arguelles unravels the harmonic code of the ancient Maya providing valuable keys to understanding the next twenty years of human evolution.
