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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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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the annual Fariseos event that happens in the northern Mexican community of San Pedro de la Cueva during Holy Week.

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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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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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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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Folklorist Alan Dundes offers a radical analysis of caste in India, focusing on the rationale underlying the customs surrounding untouchability.

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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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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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Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks What was the Golden Calf Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies.

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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.

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This book casts a gimlet eye on the real world of mythology. And in his irreverent style, O'Brien recounts more than 100 classic myths from Greek, Norse, Egyptian, Japanese, and other cultures. While each version is authentic in terms of facts, this creative take on the originals presents the stories in a whole new light.

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