Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore Bloomsbury Publishing

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'Here be dragons' was the traditional warning used by ancient mapmakers to indicate dangerous, or simply unknown, lands. These were the dwelling places of fantastical beasts, creatures such as dragons, sea serpents, unicorns, griffins and mermaids. Throughout the ages, such beasts have been viewed in complex and contradictory ways because they embody both our fear and our fascination of the unpredictable natural world around us. They appear in the earliest myths and accompany the heroes of medieval romance and folktales. Whether as the symbolic creatures of myth, or as the marvellous beasts of medieval legend and travellers' tales, fantastic animals have always inspired art and literature. Today they feature among the many marvels that populate the alternative worlds of fantasy and the outer reaches of cyberspace. Drawing on sources as diverse as myth, history and folklore, this book explores the ways in which mythical beasts continue to inhabit our fantasies and to define our constantly changing relationship to both real and imagined worlds.

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Bedtime Stories! Old Owl's Folktales: Fairy Tales, Folklore and Legends about Animals for Children Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Inspiring folktales will provide your kids with fun and educational experience enhanced by 30 vibrant, colorful illustrations. Children's author Alice Cussler is pleased to present her new book: "Bedtime Stories Old Owl's Folktales and Fairy Tales for Chi

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French Folklore Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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French folklore encompasses the fables, folklore and fairy tales and legends of the Gauls, Franks, Normans, Bretons, Occitans, and other peoples living in France.

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The History and Folklore of Vampires: The Stories and Legends Behind the Mythical Beings Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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*Includes pictures *Includes historical accounts describing vampires *Discusses the legends of vampires across various cultures and the evolution of the folklore *Includes a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents People have always

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The Folklore Cookbook: Fairy Tales and Recipes Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Every Recipe has a Story. Inspired by classics from the world of folklore, Chef and Author Eric Johnson serves up seventy-five original folktales for cooks and readers. He transports the reader into a quirky culinary world, backing up imaginative s

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Handsome Yeva: An Indo-European Tale: Reconstruction Based on Balto-Slavic Folklore and Parallels with Other Indo-European Myths Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Do you like to listen to the stories sitting in front of the camping fire? Funny stories, scary stories, silly stories? I can guess, for you read this, - you do. And I do. And our ancestors - ancestors of most European nations and many Asian nations - a Pr

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Gypsy Wisdom, Spells, Charms and Folklore Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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This book is an expansion and improvement upon the previously released but no longer in print, Gypsy Wisdom Spellbook. Contains almost entirely new content. This book is a compilation of wisdom, spells, charms and folklore of the Romany and English Gypsies

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Food and Folklore Reader Bloomsbury Publishing

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Folklore has long explored food as a core component of life, linked to identity, aesthetics, and community and connecting individuals to larger contexts of history, culture and power. It recognizes that we gather together to eat, define class, gender, and race by food production, preparation, and consumption, celebrate holidays and religious beliefs with food, attach meaning to the most mundane of foods, and evoke memories and emotions through our food selections and presentations. The Food and Folklore Reader is the first comprehensive introduction to folklore methods and concepts relevant to food, spanning the entire discipline with key sources drawn from around the globe. Whilst folklore approaches have long permeated food studies, this is the first dedicated reader to introduce those ideas and to encourage students of food to explore them in their own work. Internationally respected editor Lucy M. Long offers expert commentary and rich learning features to aid teaching. Definitive in scale and scope, the reader covers the history of food in folklore scholarship whilst also highlighting food studies approaches and concepts for folklore readers.From seminal works on identity and aesthetics to innovative scholarship on contemporary food issues such as culinary tourism and food security, this will be an essential resource for food studies, folklore studies and anthropology.

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Japanese Mythology: A Captivating Guide to Japanese Folklore, Myths, Fairy Tales, Yokai, Heroes and Heroines Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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Explore Captivating Myths of Japanese Deities, Yokai, Heroes and Heroines The study of mythology and folklore is a peculiar one to the extent that we are looking into things which are generally regarded as untrue yet critically important to a c

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Romanian Folklore and its Archaic Heritage Springer International Publishing AG

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This book presents rich information on Romanian mythology and folklore, previously under-explored in Western scholarship, placing the source material within its historical context and drawing comparisons with European and Indo-European culture and mythological tradition. The author presents a detailed comparative study and argues that Romanian mythical motifs have roots in Indo-European heritage, by analyzing and comparing mythical motifs from the archaic cultures, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Sanskrit, and Persian, with written material and folkloric data that reflects the Indo-European culture. The book begins by outlining the history of the Getae-Dacians, beginning with Herodotus' description of their customs and beliefs in the supreme god Zamolxis, then moves to the Roman wars and the Romanization process, before turning to recent debates in linguistics and genetics regarding the provenance of a shared language, religion, and culture in Europe. The author then analyzes myth creation, its relation to rites, and its functions in society, before examining specific examples of motifs and themes from Romanian folk tales and songs. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of folklore studies, comparative mythology, linguistic anthropology, and European culture.

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Appalachian Folklore Omens, Signs and Superstitions Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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'Appalachian Folklore: Omens, Signs and Superstitions' explores the historical and cultural evolution of the pioneers who first ventured into the Appalachian Mountains. It includes hundreds of whimiscal superstitions as well as folk cures, charms, and chan

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Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore Bendideia Publishing

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Magical Healing Trees in Slavic Folklore Bendideia Publishing

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King Arthur: The History and Folklore of the Arthurian Legend Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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*Includes pictures of important places and historic illustrations and art depicting the figures of the Arthurian legend *Profiles the historic figures who scholars speculate may be the person King Arthur was based on. *Explains the mythological and

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Fifty-four Devils: The Art & Folklore of Fortune-telling with Playing Cards Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

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"Ye are twenty-five cards. Become twenty-five devils Enter into the body, into the blood, into the soul ." So begins a nineteenth century Italian charm making use of a small deck of playing cards. This brief-but-richly drawn book explores the practice of d

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