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By: D. L. Ashliman

ISBN: 9780313333491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2005
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The handbook defines and classifies types of fairies, provides numerous examples and texts, overviews scholarship, and discusses the role of fairies in art, film, and popular culture. It provides numerous examples of fairy lore along with excerpts from different traditions, then examines various approaches to the study of fairies.


(Paperback)

By: Rosemary Ellen Guiley

ISBN: 9780007151295
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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Fairy Magic provides practical instruction for seeing, communicating and working with fairies and is a natural companion to Rosemary Ellen Guileys An Angel in Your Pocket and Margaret Neylons Angel Magic.


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By: Gza Rheim

ISBN: 9780691028682
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 1992
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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These seventeen essay, written between 1922 and 1953, are among Roheim's most significant published writings and are collected here for the first time to introduce a new generation of folklorists and anthropologists to his unique interpretations of myths, folktales, and legends.


(Paperback)

By: Peter Tate

ISBN: 9780099509875
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2009
Publisher: Cornerstone
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But the vast majority seem to have their origins in people's delight in inventing stories - whether the legend that the blackbird was originally white, or the suggestion that witches kept owls as their familiars.


(Paperback)

By: C. Ballard

ISBN: 9780897895576
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Attempts to go beyond the idiosyncratic nature of myths in these Papua New Guinea societies and cast the debate about the role of myth in more philosophical terms.


(Hardback)

By: C. Ballard

ISBN: 9780897895514
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 1998
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Attempts to go beyond the idiosyncratic nature of myths in these Papua New Guinea societies and cast the debate about the role of myth in more philosophical terms.


(Hardback)

By: D. L. Ashliman

ISBN: 9780313328107
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2004
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Just about everyone is familiar with folk and fairy tales. This reference is a convenient introduction to folk and fairy tales for students and general readers.

Written by a leading authority, this handbook offers a broad examination of folk and fairy tales as a folklore type.


(Hardback, 2nd edition)

By: Graham Seal

ISBN: 9781440838606
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This comprehensive collection of folk hero tales builds on the success of the first edition by providing readers with expanded contextual information on story characters from Australia to Zanzibar.


(Paperback)

By: Yanagita Kunio

ISBN: 9781442248229
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Folk Legends from Tono takes readers on a magical tour through the psychic landscape of the Japanese "spirit world" that was a part of its oral folk tradition for centuries. Morse's insightful interpretation of the tales, his rich cultural annotations, and the evocative original illustrations make this book unforgettable.


(Hardback)

By: Yanagita Kunio

ISBN: 9781442248212
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Folk Legends from Tono takes readers on a magical tour through the psychic landscape of the Japanese "spirit world" that was a part of its oral folk tradition for centuries. Morse's insightful interpretation of the tales, his rich cultural annotations, and the evocative original illustrations make this book unforgettable.


(Hardback)

By: Ropo Sekoni

ISBN: 9780313280030
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 1994
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The trickster tale is the most popular sub-genre of oral prose fiction developed by the Yoruba. This text aims to establish the phenomenology of its discourse from a socio-semiotic perspective. It investigates what makes up a trickster tale and shows how contemporary African writers have used it.


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By: Jacqueline S. Thursby

ISBN: 9780313341731
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In every land, various traditions, customs, and legends have developed around food. Culturally and ethnically inclusive, from soul food to Navaho fry bread, the volume looks at basic Jewish and Islamic food traditions and Asian, Latin, and European influences on the foods of America.


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By: James Valentine

ISBN: 9780733319587
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2007
Publisher: ABC Books
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The Form Guide is not a rule book ... It's a guide book. It doesn't tell you what you should do, it's about what we do do. This is a very funny book. It's about you. Well, maybe not you as such, but people a lot like you except weirder.


(Paperback)

By: Foxfire Fund

ISBN: 9780385494618
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 1999
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Continuing the tradition begun in the acclaimed series of "Foxfire" books first published in 1972, the eleventh book includes articles on wild plant uses, gardening wit and wisdom, beekeeping, tool making, fishing, and more affairs of plain living.


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By: Braden Gregg

ISBN: 9781401920654
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Hay House Inc
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Applying fractal time to the history of the world and life, Braden proposes that everything from the war and peace between nations to the patterns of human relationships mirror the returning cycles of our past. If you know where to look in the past, you know what to expect when the same conditions return in the present and future.


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By: Gregg Braden

ISBN: 9781848500754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2022
Publisher: Hay House UK Ltd
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Ancient traditions viewed 'time' as the great ripples of a galactic wave that ebb and flow as they travel throughout the universe. This work proposes that everything, from the way we age to the wars between nations, are simply the returning waves of our past, with each one carrying a more powerful, amplified version of itself.


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By: Suzanne I. Barchers

ISBN: 9781563088155
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2001
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Greek mythology, an important part of the curriculum for middle and high school students, serves as an exciting source of creative inspiration. Students get to know heroes, such as Heracles and Athena, in addition to lesser known but equally fascinating figures, such as Chiron and Asclepius.


(Hardback)

By: Diane Morgan

ISBN: 9780313344053
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2008
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From the stones of Aaron's breastplate to the foundational rocks of the New Jerusalem, from the creation tales of South America to the blood stones of Burma, gems have taken their place in the mythology and magic of the human race. This book chronicles the background of gems. Each chapter herein covers a particular gemstone.


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By: James R. Dow

ISBN: 9780313333750
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Written especially for high school students and general readers, this volume is an accessible introduction to German folklore.

The volume begins by defining and classifying different types of German folklore.


(Hardback)

By: June Michele Pulliam

ISBN: 9781440834905
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2016
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Hardback)

By: Martha Anne

ISBN: 9780874367157
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Covering 30,000 years of goddess worship, this fascinating book is the first and most comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted exclusively to mythological deities.


(Paperback)

By: Gustav Schwab

ISBN: 9780375714467
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2001
UK Publication Date: 9th October 2001
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
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Schwab's retellings of stories about Prometheus, Zeus, Heracles, Odysseus, and other ancient Greek gods and heroes are based on close adherence to the original sources.


(Paperback)

By: Bernard Evslin

ISBN: 9781845113216
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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An encyclopedia of Greek mythology, this work describes names, places and events in briefly-told tales of the gods of the Olympian pantheon. It features demigods, demons, heroes, and many of the great cycles, fables and nature myths.


(Hardback)

By: Graham Anderson

ISBN: 9780313335754
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2006
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Was there a Cinderella tale in the ancient world

The volume begins by asking how we can attempt to define folklore in the first place, and how we can make sense of the vast amount of materials available.

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