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  • The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales
    Mindy Campbell Hudson
    Collected through firsthand interviews, author Mindy Campbell Hudson brings local lore to life in The Headless Horseman of Booger Holler and Other Dover Tales with stories of Dover, Arkansas's own legends, history, and supernatural tales. Complete with photographs of historical Dover, this collection of tales captures the legacy and traditions of rural Arkansas and sets it ...
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    12,86 €

  • Underworld & Archetypes Fully Illustrated
    James Bennett
    Looking at today’s culture through the lens of mythology, James Bennett sees a split between heaven and earth, and believes that to restore global health we must turn our attention downwards, to the Underworld. He proposes that:• Heaven and hell represent the intellect and body if they become polarized. The darkness of the underworld symbolizes its obscurity to intellect.• Inte...
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    16,45 €

  • Satellites Out of Orbit
    Chris Wind
    A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain’s wife, Noah’s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been t...
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    15,69 €

  • Missouri Folklore Society Journal, Special Issue
    'We drafted a call for papers, asking for a range of pieces that tell the story of public sector folklore in Missouri. The response was remarkable, and we ultimately worked with authors of the eight articles collected here. From the integration of traditional artists in public school residencies, to collaborations between a folklorist and a social worker who examine foodways, t...
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    19,94 €

  • Living the Hero's Journey
    Will Craig
    Author Will Craig shares the paths traveled, lessons learned, and insights gained as the founder and former dean of an international coaching and mentoring company. Experience how to use movies and mythology to uncover the path that is truly yours. This is your Call to Adventure: Unroll the Map of Self-Discovery and embrace a whole new world of joy and wisdom. Gain access t...
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    10,82 €

  • Sea Tales South Beach Miami
    Nick Hernandez
    The roaring twenties, cars driving to the south most point of Miami Beach for dances and the most popular burlesque spot in Miami Florida. Honky-tonk bars at the entrance of the pier that extended out onto the ocean make for a couple of drinks before dancing the night away. The burlesque house at the end of the pier built on the water. Too bad a barge broke loose during the 192...
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    9,51 €

  • Stories of Greek Gods, Heroes, and Men
    Caroline Hirst Harding / Samuel Bannister Harding
    *** ILLUSTRATED IN COLOR ***The Greeks believed that the whole world was divided among three great gods, who were brothers The first and greatest of these was the god of the heaven and earth. The second was the god of the ocean, the rivers, and the brooks. The third was the god of the under-world, or the dark space beneath the surface of the ground. But besides these, there wer...
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    18,93 €

  • La ópera de Beijing en español
    Yang Song
    Este libro es un viaje por el corazón palpitante de una de las tradiciones escénicas más fascinantes de China: la ópera de Beijing. A través de sus páginas, intento tender un puente entre dos mundos aparentemente dispares: la rica herencia cultural de China y el ávido lector de habla hispana, ansioso por descubrir las sutilezas de esta forma artística milenaria.La ópera de Beij...
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    17,59 €

  • Lady Guest’s Mabinogion
    Charlotte Guest
    A cornerstone of Welsh folklore, this new edition of the Mabinogion features Lady Charlotte Guest’s original English translation of the medieval collection of Arthurian legends and Celtic myths. Sourced from Lady Guest’s 1877 English translation, this new edition of the Mabinogion features twelve tales of heroes, gods, and magical creatures in an exciting odyssey of early medi...
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    42,65 €

  • Tales of the Cosmos
    Peta Oakes (Gaelic Mac Dubhdara)
    In the vast tapestry of human imagination, mythology, folklore, and legends intertwine to weave captivating tales that transcend time and culture. From the haunting odes and hymns echoing the deeds of gods and heroes to the enchanting melodies of short stories brimming with magic and wonder, the realm of mythos beckons. Medusa’s petrifying gaze, the chilling howl of werewolves ...
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    40,19 €

  • The Prose Edda
    Snorri Sturluson
    'The Prose Edda,' a timeless compilation of Old Norse tales and poetic theories meticulously crafted by Icelandic scholar Snorri Sturluson in the 13th century. Offering a treasury of myths, legends, and insights into Viking Age beliefs, this cornerstone of Norse literature unveils the rich tapestry of gods, giants, and heroes that populate the ancient Nordic cosmos. From the th...
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    7,82 €

  • The Prose Edda
    Snorri Sturluson
    The Prose Edda, also known as the Younger Edda, Snorri’s Edda, and simply Edda, was written in Old Norse during the thirteenth century in Iceland. Snorri Sturluson, a distinguished poet, legislator, and frequent visitor to Norway’s royal court, determined in 1220 to assemble Norse mythology’s narratives and poetic practises before they faded under the influence of Christianity ...
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    8,36 €

  • Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson
    The classic work on African American toasts, the predecessor of rap. ...
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    26,16 €

  • Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, Second Edition
    Bruce Jackson
    Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me celebrates the African American oral tradition of toasting, one of the key roots of contemporary rap. Jackson was among the few to appreciate the profane energy and beauty of this rhymed form, collecting such classic toasts as 'Stackolee,' 'The Titanic,' 'Signifying Monkey,' 'Dance of the Freaks,' and dozens more. This unexpurgated edi...
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    126,52 €

  • Folklore Matters
    Bruce Jackson
    Celebrates over a half-century of the work of one of America’s greatest folklorists. ...
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    126,46 €

  • Dark Fairy Tales
    Charles Perrault / Grimm Brothers
    Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales. ’Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.’ - Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916 ’The instruments of darkness tell us truths.’ - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623 This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world’s most ...
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    24,24 €

  • Dark Fairy Tales
    Charles Perrault / Grimm Brothers
    Discover the original macabre stories of your most beloved classics in this collection of disturbingly dark fairy tales. ’Story-telling is one of the most ancient and universal of arts.’ - Laura F. Kready, A Study of Fairy Tales, 1916 ’The instruments of darkness tell us truths.’ - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1623 This twisted treasury presents over forty of the world’s most ...
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    33,20 €

  • Totem et Tabou
    Sigmund Freud / S. Jankélévitch
    Publié en 1913, cet ouvrage majeur de Sigmund Freud explore les origines de la société humaine et de la culture en examinant les concepts de totemisme et de tabou. À la croisée de la psychanalyse, de l’ethnologie et de la linguistique, 'Totem et tabou' est un texte clé qui se propose de déduire, en abordant des notions telles que la prohibition de l’inceste, le sens primitif du...
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    14,70 €

  • Lien Gwerin 8
    Alex Langstone
    Issue eight of the Cornish Folklore periodical. Published annually every February, each issue contains a wealth of original research, recorded lore and traditional folk narratives from across the ancient land of Cornwall. The journal regularly features some of the leading writers and academics specialising in Cornish culture. Lien Gwerin aims to bring the best in folklore, soci...
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    12,88 €

  • A Magia Celtibérica No Nordeste Brasileiro
    Gabriel Araújo
    Quando nos referimos à cultura brasileira, não podemos deixar de considerar a ampla diversidade de raízes ancestrais que contribuiu para moldar tradições, crenças e costumes do povo brasileiro.No Nordeste, em especial, onde a colonização portuguesa deixou grandes legados, temos notadamente uma forte influência da cultura celtibérica em nossas lendas, folguedos, na religiosidade...
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    11,37 €

  • Fairy Haunts of Ireland
    Alanna Moore
    What is the nature of the Other-dimensional world of fairyland? Since ancient times, seers have described the parallel world of nature spirits and deities. Peeling away the biased accounts of medieval monks, one finds archaic fragments of mythos of the Other, also in children’s stories. Best of all, we can encounter them ourselves and there are many fairy places to visit around...
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    21,64 €

  • CFZ Yearbook 2024/5
    Jonathan Downes
    The Centre for Fortean Zoology (CFZ) is a professional and scientific organisation dedicated to cryptozoology: The study of unknown animals and allied disciplines. Since 1992, we have carried out extensive research into mystery animals and animal mysteries around the globe. We produce a weekly WebTV show called On The Track (OTT), which covers Cryptozoology, Natural History and...
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    20,35 €

  • The Good People and the Bad
    Shea Leitrim
    The Good People and the Bad: The Foul and Faustian Misdeeds of Oedipus O’Kane Far, Far From His Native Connaught Maybe it’s Queens in 1978. Maybe it’s Hell. Could you tell the difference? Waste no prayers on Eddie O’Kane. Either he’s lost his 15-year-old mind or he has somehow come back in time from his own death, years in the future. Certainly he knows more than his mundane ...
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    20,81 €

  • Conto - Ligações De Uma Paixão
    Duarte M. B.
    Sinopse: O amor tem seus caminhos misteriosos para fazer se encontrarem duas pessoas. Após isso o que os movem, influenciam, inspiram e faz acontecer adanadada paixão-amor? Será uma meraQuímica, Destino, Acaso,Vontade e ou Desejos de e entre essas duas pessoas? Muitas indagações e reflexões ainda envolvem os sentimentos denominados de amor e paixão, mas aqui amor e paixão serão...
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    10,19 €

  • ALIVE
    Odette Tchernine
    Odette Tchernine (c. 1897-1992) was a British author, cryptozoologist, novelist and journalist. She was born in Paris to a Russian financier father, Dimitri Tchernine (Dmitry Chernin), and a French mother, Yvonne, from Toulouse. She grew up in Kensington and had a younger brother, Serge Tchernine. Odette Tchernine is best known for writing several books on the abominable snowma...
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    19,10 €

  • As Manifestações Culturais Como Ferramenta De Aprendizagem Para A Educação Infantil
    Francisco Felipe
    O Brasil é um país de uma vasta diversidade Cultural e Folclórica, em suas respectivas cidades e regiões, onde cada canto do país tem sua própria Cultura Popular ou como bem dizemos, o seu Folclore. Por conta disto aBNCC (Base Nacional Comum Curricular) busca fazer este resgate cultural onde vão ser citados os Conhecimentos e pensamentos críticos, científicos e criativos, eo Re...
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    8,26 €

  • Connecticut Cryptids
    Patrick Scalisi
    **A 2024 NEXT GENERATION INDIE BOOK AWARD FINALIST (Regional Non-Fiction category)****THE INGRAM SPARK #1 BESTSELLER (New England History subject category)**Dear Curious Reader,Maybe you’ve heard of the Black Dog of the Hanging Hills or the Winsted Wildman. But did you know that these are just a few of the mythical creatures that call Connecticut home?It’s true! The Nutmeg Stat...
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    21,69 €

  • Midnight Mojito Sugar Skulls Coloring Book for Adults
    Monsoon Publishing
    ★Sugar Skulls Grayscale Coloring Book★Midnight Mojito! A wonderful Day of the Dead Sugar Skull Coloring BookThe coloring book includes56 pp.A4white backsides - no pushing throughSugar Skull Catrinas in grayscaletraditional Sugar SkullsA perfect gift for all Halloween, dia de los muertos and horror fans. ...
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    7,05 €

  • Doodlebugs and Dowsers
    Dan Plazak
    What lies beneath the ground? Our poor eyesight cannot penetrate even an inch into the soil, so for centuries, fortune-seekers have tried every way imaginable to see below the surface. Whether searching for mineral veins, groundwater, or buried treasure, people have looked for ways to avoid the plodding and backbreaking process of digging. They have followed dreams, seers, dows...
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    24,55 €

  • Pages From a Welsh Cunning Man’s Book
    Andrew Phillip Smith
    The secret book of the cunning man of Denbighshire, a Welsh magical notebook from the 1830s, was published in part in the 1970s but is now lost. Andrew Phillip Smith reconstructs and translates the notebook. The cunning man, or dyn hysbys, straddled two worlds, providing magical services to his community, preserving traditional charms and magical techniques yet eager to discove...
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    27,83 €