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Sage, scientist, and sorcerer, Hermes Trismegistus was the culture-hero of Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. This book argues that the technical and philosophical Hermetica, apparently so different, might be seen as aspects of a single "way of Hermes."

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Was there ever such a beast as the monstrous Kraken Did a Welsh prince discover America, centuries before Columbus What happened to the missing crew of the Mary Celeste This title deals with these questions.

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Recasts various ideas about the fertility myth of Adonis. This book challenges Sir James Frazer's thesis that the vegetation god Adonis represented the annual cycle of growth and decay in agriculture. It uses the analytic tools of structuralism and shows instead that the festivals of Adonis depict a seductive but impotent and fruitless deity.

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The medieval legend of the Grail, a tale about the search for supreme mystical experience, has never ceased to intrigue writers and scholars by its wildly variegated forms. This title shows how the Grail, once a Celtic vessel of plenty, evolved into the Christian Grail with miraculous powers.

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An account of the power and importance of ancient African myth.

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Travel with storyteller and folklorist Joseph Daniel Sobol as he embarks on a journey of multicultural awareness and awakening. This book of multicultural and multilingual proverbs, beliefs, remedies, recipes and folktales collected by ESL students during a series of folklore and storytelling residencies at Chicago inner-city secondary schools.

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Avalon is Britain's very own Atlantis - a mystical kingdom rich in myth and lore. Legends tell how the body of King Arthur was taken to Avalon, where he would wait till his nation's hour of need -The truth is that Avalon was a very real place with a turbulent history of its own.

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"Explores the functions of mythology in contemporary high and popular literature, charting how it reacts with our science-oriented and postmodern culture"--

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Provides a study of the mythology of the world's high civilizations. This book explores the relation of dreams to myth, and demonstrates the important differences between oriental and occidental interpretations of dreams and life.

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This cultural journey down memory lane showcases how major Western figures, events, and places have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture.

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Stories of travel have always fascinated those who stay behind. In this compendium, travellers of the armchair variety will find the best travel tales from antiquity to 1900.

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This book collects and annotates more than 150 urban legends from around the world and is a valuable resource for students, general readers, and anyone interested in contemporary culture.

Each entry provides introductory information about a legend, including its presence in films and other creative works;

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A Nobel laureate's collection of five original tales inspired by the Egypt of the pharaohs brings the world of ancient Egypt face-to-face with modern times. Reprint. 20, 000 first printing.

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Voyages in Classical Mythology takes 44 great classical adventure tales of mythology and exploration and retells them in this beautifully written volume.

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Women and Folklore concerns itself with the growing body of English-language literature on women's folklore and culture. There are 1,664 bibliographic citations, with a combined subject and name index containing some intriguing topics and names.

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The first and only comprehensive biographical dictionary devoted to mythological women.

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Brings together various W B Yeats' published prose writings on Irish folklore, legend and myth, with pieces on subjects including ghosts, kidnappers, fairies, ancient tribes, precious stones and Gaelic love songs.

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Gathers more than one hundred and seventy folktales about demons, princesses, fools, dybbuks, golems, and rabbis.