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Lugh na Bua-Lugh the Deliverer (Hardcover): Cathal O'Searcaigh, Sean O Gaoithin Lugh na Bua-Lugh the Deliverer (Hardcover)
Cathal O'Searcaigh, Sean O Gaoithin; Illustrated by Sean Fitzgerald
R637 Discovery Miles 6 370 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Oedipus and Akhnaton - Myth and History (Hardcover): Immanuel Velikovsky Oedipus and Akhnaton - Myth and History (Hardcover)
Immanuel Velikovsky
R714 Discovery Miles 7 140 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legend of Tristan and Iseulet - The Tale and the Trail in Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany (Paperback): Forrester Roberts Legend of Tristan and Iseulet - The Tale and the Trail in Ireland, Cornwall and Brittany (Paperback)
Forrester Roberts
R68 Discovery Miles 680 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Buddhist Myths - Cosmology, Tales & Legends (Hardcover): Martin J. Dougherty Buddhist Myths - Cosmology, Tales & Legends (Hardcover)
Martin J. Dougherty
R606 R547 Discovery Miles 5 470 Save R59 (10%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Practiced today by more than 500 million adherents, Buddhism emerged from India between the sixth and fourth centuries BCE. Based around the original teachings of the Buddha, key texts emerged to promote a true understanding of Buddhist ethics and spiritual practices. The Buddhist traditions created a vast body of mythological literature, much of it focused on the life of the Buddha. For example, the 550 Jataka Tales tell of Buddha's early life and renunciation, as well as his previous human and animal incarnations. The stories also tell of Gautama Buddha's family, such as his mother Mara, and her dream of a white elephant preceding his birth; as well as his cousin, Devadatta, a disciple monk who rebelled against Buddha and tried to kill him. Buddhist literature includes numerous parables - such as the Turtle Who Couldn't Stop Talking - as well as recounting scenes from the Indian epic the Ramayana. History and myth intermingle in texts such as Ashokavadana, where the Mauryan emperor Ashoka is portrayed as a model of Buddhist kingship. Illustrated with 120 photographs and artworks, Buddhist Myths is an accessible, engaging and highly informative exploration of the fascinating mythology underlying one of the world's oldest and most influential religions.

Thor's Dragon Rider - Books 1 - 3 (Hardcover): Katrina Cope Thor's Dragon Rider - Books 1 - 3 (Hardcover)
Katrina Cope
R903 Discovery Miles 9 030 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Japanese Fairy Tales (Hardcover): Yei Theodora Ozaki Japanese Fairy Tales (Hardcover)
Yei Theodora Ozaki; Edited by 1stworld Library
R635 Discovery Miles 6 350 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This collection of Japanese fairy tales is the outcome of a suggestion made to me indirectly through a friend by Mr. Andrew Lang. They have been translated from the modern version written by Sadanami Sanjin. These stories are not literal translations, and though the Japanese story and all quaint Japanese expressions have been faithfully preserved, they have been told more with the view to interest young readers of the West than the technical student of folk - lore. Grateful acknowledgment is due to Mr. Y. Yasuoka, Miss Fusa Okamoto, my brother Nobumori Ozaki, Dr. Yoshihiro Takaki, and Miss Kameko Yamao, who have helped me with translations.

Witch, Warlock, and Magician - Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland (Hardcover): William H... Witch, Warlock, and Magician - Historical Sketches of Magic and Witchcraft in England and Scotland (Hardcover)
William H Davenport Adams
R865 Discovery Miles 8 650 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Current Anthropological Literature (Volume Ii) (Hardcover): Current Anthropological Literature (Volume Ii) (Hardcover)
R993 Discovery Miles 9 930 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Legend-Tripping Online - Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (Hardcover): Michael Kinsella Legend-Tripping Online - Supernatural Folklore and the Search for Ong's Hat (Hardcover)
Michael Kinsella
R2,936 Discovery Miles 29 360 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

On the Internet, seekers investigate anonymous manifestos that focus on the findings of brilliant scientists said to have discovered pathways into alternate realities. Gathering on web forums, researchers not only share their observations, but also report having anomalous experiences, which they believe come from their online involvement with these veiled documents. Seeming logic combines with wild twists of lost Moorish science and pseudo-string theory. Enthusiasts insist any obstacle to revelation is a sure sign of great and wide-reaching efforts by consensus powers wishing to suppress all the liberating truths in the Incunabula Papers (included here in complete form).

In "Legend-Tripping Online," Michael Kinsella explores these and other extraordinary pursuits. This is the first book dedicated to legend-tripping, ritual quests in which people strive to explore and find manifest the very events described by supernatural legends. Through collective performances, legend-trippers harness the interpretive frameworks these stories provide and often claim incredible, out-of-this-world experiences that in turn perpetuate supernatural legends.

Legends and legend-tripping are assuming tremendous prominence in a world confronting new speeds of diversification, connection, and increasing cognitive load. As guardians of tradition as well as agents of change, legends and the ordeals they inspire contextualize ancient and emergent ideas, behaviors, and technologies that challenge familiar realities. This book analyzes supernatural legends and the ways in which the sharing spirit of the internet collectivizes, codifies, and makes folklore of fantastic speculation.

Mothman - Evil Incarnate (Hardcover): Loren Coleman Mothman - Evil Incarnate (Hardcover)
Loren Coleman
R581 Discovery Miles 5 810 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Titha Mae and the Dawn of Celtica (Hardcover): Jon B. Dalvy Titha Mae and the Dawn of Celtica (Hardcover)
Jon B. Dalvy
R756 Discovery Miles 7 560 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Celtic mythology and religion (Hardcover): Alexander MacBain Celtic mythology and religion (Hardcover)
Alexander MacBain
R691 R645 Discovery Miles 6 450 Save R46 (7%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Pavilions in the Air - And Other Chinese Proverbs with English Equivalents (Hardcover): Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood Pavilions in the Air - And Other Chinese Proverbs with English Equivalents (Hardcover)
Christopher Arnander, Frances Wood; Illustrated by Kathryn Lamb
R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Gathered here are gems galore, which, while revealing much as to the Chinese national psyche, highlight particular traits and characteristics that span the globe. We all know Chairman Mau's infamous 'It doesn't matter what colour the cat, as long as it catches mice', but most of us would only recognize an approximate English equivalent of 'A mighty dragon cannot crush a local snake' or, 'A Phoenix might come out of a crow's nest'. The beasts and birds of legend and folklore provide the inimitable Kathryn Lamb's pen with a feast of hilarious subjects, not least a certain revolution at one ill-fated dinner party...

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge - A Companion to Early Irish Saga (Hardcover): Tomas O Cathasaigh Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge - A Companion to Early Irish Saga (Hardcover)
Tomas O Cathasaigh; Edited by Matthieu Boyd
R3,064 Discovery Miles 30 640 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

Coire Sois, The Cauldron of Knowledge: A Companion to Early Irish Saga offers thirty-one previously published essays by Tomas O Cathasaigh, which together constitute a magisterial survey of early Irish narrative literature in the vernacular. O Cathasaigh has been called "the father of early Irish literary criticism," with writings among the most influential in the field. He pioneered the analysis of the classic early Irish tales as literary texts, a breakthrough at a time when they were valued mainly as repositories of grammatical forms, historical data, and mythological debris. All four of the Mythological, Ulster, King, and Finn Cycles are represented here in readings of richness, complexity, and sophistication, supported by absolute philological rigor and yet easy for the non-specialist to follow. The book covers key terms, important characters, recurring themes, rhetorical strategies, and the narrative logic of this literature. It also surveys the work of the many others whose explorations were launched by O Cathasaigh's first encounters with the literature. As the most authoritative single volume on the essential texts and themes of early Irish saga, this collection will be an indispensable resource for established scholars, and an ideal introduction for newcomers to one of the richest and most under-studied literatures of medieval Europe.

The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 4: The Practice of Jungian Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, Collected Writings of... The Collected Writings of Murray Stein - Volume 4: The Practice of Jungian Psychoanalysis (Hardcover, Collected Writings of Murray Stein ed.)
Murray Stein
R1,157 Discovery Miles 11 570 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New): Robert Ackerman Selected Letters of Sir J. G. Frazer (Hardcover, New)
Robert Ackerman
R6,944 Discovery Miles 69 440 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941), the eminent anthropologist, classicist, and historian of religion. Frazer was read by virtually everyone working in those fields in the first third of the twentieth century. His great work, The Golden Bough, offered a grand vision of humanity's mental and spiritual evolution - from vain attempts to compel the gods to do our bidding (which Frazer called magic) through equally vain attempts to propitiate the gods through prayer and sacrifice (his characterization of religion) to rationality and science. His richly varied correspondence with prominent figures such as Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, and Bronislaw Malinowski, among others, offers an unparalleled insight into British intellectual life of the time, and also throws light upon the composition of The Golden Bough itself.

Snow White - Life Almost Lost (Hardcover): Theodor Seifert Snow White - Life Almost Lost (Hardcover)
Theodor Seifert
R671 Discovery Miles 6 710 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Ash - Poems from Norse Mythology (Hardcover): Jeff Mann Ash - Poems from Norse Mythology (Hardcover)
Jeff Mann
R652 Discovery Miles 6 520 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Children's Folklore - A Handbook (Hardcover): Elizabeth Tucker Children's Folklore - A Handbook (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Tucker
R1,725 Discovery Miles 17 250 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Children have their own games, stories, riddles, and so forth. This book gives students and general readers an introduction to children's folklore. Included are chapters on the definition and classification of children's folklore, the presence of children's folklore in literature and popular culture, and the scholarly interpretation of children's folklore. The volume also includes a wide range of examples and texts demonstrating the variety of children's folklore around the world.

Children have always had their own games, stories, riddles, jokes, and so forth. Many times, children's folklore differs significantly from the folklore of the adult world, as it reflects the particular concerns and experiences of childhood. In the late 19th century, children's folklore began receiving growing amounts of scholarly attention, and it is now one of the most popular topics among folklorists, general readers, and students. This book is a convenient and authoritative introduction to children's folklore for nonspecialists.

The volume begins with a discussion of how children's folklore is defined, and how various types of children's folklore are classified. This is followed by a generous selection of examples and texts illustrating the variety of children's folklore from around the world. The book then looks at how scholars have responded to children's folklore since the 19th century, and how children's folklore has become prominent in popular culture. A glossary and bibliography round out the volume.

More English Fairy Tales - Illustrated by John D. Batten - Pook Press (Hardcover): Joseph Jacobs More English Fairy Tales - Illustrated by John D. Batten - Pook Press (Hardcover)
Joseph Jacobs; Illustrated by John D. Batten
R766 Discovery Miles 7 660 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc. in Two Parts (Hardcover): Alexander Robert Forbes Gaelic Names of Beasts (Mammalia), Birds, Fishes, Insects, Reptiles, Etc. in Two Parts (Hardcover)
Alexander Robert Forbes
R1,013 Discovery Miles 10 130 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Storytelling in Bali (Hardcover): H. Geertz Storytelling in Bali (Hardcover)
H. Geertz
R4,579 Discovery Miles 45 790 Ships in 18 - 22 working days

In Storytelling in Bali, Hildred Geertz makes a case for the importance of the role of informal storytelling as an engine of social change in Bali in the 1930s. This is a study of more than 200 texts dictated by the painters of the village of Batuan in 1936 to the anthropologist Gregory Bateson. It is completed by three years field work in Batuan in the 1980s. The tales reveal a set of strong ambivalences about the magical powers of kings, priests and sorcerers, and about social strains within villages and families. These narratives were related in the daily settings of home and coffee shop and also in the spectacular dance-dramas of the time.

Vampire, His Kith and Kin - A Critical Edition (Hardcover): Montague Summers Vampire, His Kith and Kin - A Critical Edition (Hardcover)
Montague Summers; Edited by John Edgar Browning
R886 Discovery Miles 8 860 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Round Towers of Ireland - or, The Mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism and of Budhism: for the First Time Unveiled, Prize... The Round Towers of Ireland - or, The Mysteries of Freemasonry, of Sabaism and of Budhism: for the First Time Unveiled, Prize Essay of the Royal ... (Hardcover)
Henry O'Brien
R1,080 Discovery Miles 10 800 Ships in 18 - 22 working days
Folklore; A Quarterly Review Of Myth, Tradition, Institution & Custom Incorporating The Archaeological Review And The Folk-Lore... Folklore; A Quarterly Review Of Myth, Tradition, Institution & Custom Incorporating The Archaeological Review And The Folk-Lore Journal (Volume Iv) 1893 (Hardcover)
R1,107 R1,001 Discovery Miles 10 010 Save R106 (10%) Ships in 18 - 22 working days
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