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This enchanting collection of traditional English folktales reflects the depth and diversity of the folk heritage of Britain, and illustrates the ties between stories, land, and people.

Among the Northwest Coast Indians (Tlingit, Haida, and others), potlatches traditionally are lavish community gatherings marking important events, such as funerals or marriages.

Mary Becks collection of legends from Tlingit and Haida folklore provides an excellent look at not only the mythology but the value and culture of these Southeast Alaska Natives.

Shaman and Kushtaka, both struck terror in the hearts of the Tlingit and Haida, for both possessed frightening supernatural powers.

The major purpose of this book is to illustrate and explain the fundamental similarities and correspondences between humankind's oldest and newest thought-technologies: oral tradition and the Internet.

Along with Confederate flags, the men and women who recently gathered before the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts carried signs proclaiming “Heritage Not Hate.

Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games.

The representation of aquatic people in contemporary film and television-from their on-screen sexuality to the mockumentaries they've inspired.

Upholds "e;a Disney vacation as a religious experience .

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

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

Did the universe start with a bang, or has it existed always?

'Even the smallest person can change the course of the future.

"e;The Swan King"e; is the biography of one of the most enigmatic figures of the 19th century, described by Verlaine as 'the only true king of his century'.

Marrakech is the heart and lifeblood of Morocco's ancient storytelling tradition.

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

Lines laid across the plain near the Peruvian site of Nazca have been explained as ancient roads or features of a long-forgotten religious calendar.

Does the giant Yeti roam the mountain ranges of Tibet?

Interest in the Arthurian myths is running at perhaps unprecedented levels, and has become a thoroughly mainstream preoccupation.

"e;Gardens of the Gods"e; reveals the symbolic language of garden design, exploring the gardens of China, with their moon gates and immortal rocks, the Zen gardens of Japan, the paradise gardens of Islam, those of Renaissance Italy with their richly mythological imagery, the landscaped parks of England, the gardens of New Harmony in the US and some striking, modern examples of symbolic gardens, including the Tarot Garden of the sculptress Niki de Saint Phalle in Italy.

Whether they focus on Thor's powerful hammer, the mysterious valkyries, the palatial home of the gods - Asgard - or ravenous wolves and fierce elemental giants, the Norse myths are packed with vivid incident.

The sacred allure of the Holy Grail has fascinated writers and ensnared knights for over a thousand years.

Half-man-half-myth, the werewolf has over the years infiltrated popular culture in many strange and varied shapes, from Gothic horror to the 'body horror' films of the 1980s and today's graphic novels.

The enigmatic and richly illustrative tarot deck reveals a host of strange and iconic mages, such as The Tower, The Wheel of Fortune, The Hanged Man and The Fool: over which loom the terrifying figures of Death and The Devil.

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

From dragons and wyverns to vampires, werewolves and mischievous gremlins, pixies and fairies, Breverton's Phantasmagoria is a unique compendium of over 250 mythical animals.

Examines the tale of Cinderella as a fascinating, multilayered, and ever-changing story constantly reinvented in different media and traditions.

Plants have had symbolic as well as practical meanings and uses since the beginning of human civilisation.

Bad clownsthose malicious misfits of the midway who terrorize, haunt, and threaten ushave long been a cultural icon.

The poetic proverbs known to nuevomexicanos as dichos are particular to their places of origin.

Now back in print after more than thirty years, The Zunis: Self-Portrayals offers forty-six stories of myth, prophecy, and history from the great oral literature of the Zuni Indians of New Mexico.

How does a culture in which writing is not a prominent feature create historical tradition?

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Arts in Earnest explores the unique folklife of North Carolina from ruddy ducks to pranks in the mill.

In this pathbreaking study of three of the most familiar texts in the Chinese tradition-all concerning stones endowed with magical properties-Jing Wang develops a monumental reconstruction of ancient Chinese stone lore.

In Tough Love Kathryn Schwarz takes up a range of literary, historical, and theoretical texts in order to examine the relationship between Amazon myth and the social conventions that governed gender and sexuality during the early modern period.

Where rivers, railroads, and redhorse fish tell the story of Alabama's soul.

A collection of essays providing insights into new directions in rhetorical history Kathleen J.

Kessler supplies both the biography of a legend and an explanation of why that legend has endured.

A timeless journey into the heart and folklore of Alabama.

A deluxe, commemorative edition of a beloved collection of ghostly stories from famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's home state of Alabama.

A critical investigation into how modern myths shape interpretations of the ancient past.

A deluxe, commemorative edition of famed southern author and folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham's introduction to the Volunteer State's most enduring ghost stories.