Folclore, mitos y leyendas

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  • Satellites Out of Orbit
    Chris Wind
    A unique collection of feminist prose and poetry in five sections: I. Epistles: epistles written by Eve, Cain’s wife, Noah’s wife, Delilah, the Queen of Sheba, Mary, and others - as if they were feminist II. Myths: the myths within the myths revealed - what might Pandora, Circe, Penelope, Eurydice, Persephone, the Gorgons, and others have thought and done if they had not been t...
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    15,69 €

  • Missouri Folklore Society Journal, Special Issue
    'We drafted a call for papers, asking for a range of pieces that tell the story of public sector folklore in Missouri. The response was remarkable, and we ultimately worked with authors of the eight articles collected here. From the integration of traditional artists in public school residencies, to collaborations between a folklorist and a social worker who examine foodways, t...
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    19,94 €

  • Finding The Gander
    Frank Prem
    . . . why should I carewhat my grandfathers thoughtthey were thenwhile I am now~In Finding The Gander Part I, Frank Prem began a close reading and poetic response to Joseph Campbell’s The Flight of the Wild Gander (1969). Campbell’s book closes with two concentrated essays that turn toward the deeper structures of myth and the ways ancient patterns continue to shape modern lif...
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    25,12 €

  • Finding The Gander
    Frank Prem
    . . . why should I carewhat my grandfathers thoughtthey were thenwhile I am now~In Finding The Gander Part I, Frank Prem began a close reading and poetic response to Joseph Campbell’s The Flight of the Wild Gander (1969). Campbell’s book closes with two concentrated essays that turn toward the deeper structures of myth and the ways ancient patterns continue to shape modern life...
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    25,12 €

  • Hard Hitting Stories From A Hard Hit People
    Ryan Garrett Dingus
    HardHitting Stories From a Hard-Hit People is a collection of Appalachian family history, folklore, oral tradition, and local history rooted in Southwest Virginia and East Tennessee. Drawing on family stories, historical research, genealogy, and regional memory, Ryan Garrett Dingus preserves the experiences of ordinary people whose lives might otherwise be lost to time.The stor...
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    18,34 €

  • The Kandahar Giant
    Chuck Miller
    A cave in the mountains of Kandahar Province. A missing patrol. A story that will not die.In 2002, a Special Forces patrol vanished in the mountains of Kandahar Province, Afghanistan. The team sent to find them discovered broken gear, spent casings, human bones, and a cave. What came out of that cave, according to the story told ever since, stood twelve to fifteen feet tall: re...
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    41,80 €

  • Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland
    Lady Wilde (Speranza)
    Lady Wilde was a poet of the Young Ireland movement, a translator, a salon hostess, and the mother of Oscar. She wrote as Speranza. By the time this book appeared in 1887 she had outlived her husband by ten years, and one of her reasons for making it was to put his work to use.Sir William Wilde was an eye and ear surgeon, and among the most active antiquarians of his generation...
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    29,44 €

  • Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
    W. B. Yeats
    W. B. Yeats was twenty-three when this book appeared in 1888, and it was the first he edited. He was not yet the poet of the later work. He was a young man convinced that the stories still being told in Irish cottages were not quaint survivals but a living literature, and that nobody had yet presented them as one.So he went to the collectors. Thomas Crofton Croker, who had gath...
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    27,01 €

  • Ghosts of County Cork
    Mike Baldwin
    Ghosts of County Cork gathers forty stories once told beside the hearths of the county’s farms, villages, and towns - tales of haunted houses, storm-beaten islands, and the narrow ground where the living and the dead meet, memories of fear passed from one generation to the next.But this is more than a collection of ghost stories. It is a portrait of a county where landscape and...
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    17,47 €

  • The Celtic Elements in Pillar of Stone & Sorrow
    Justin Gregg / Ranke de Vries
    You’ve read Pillar of Stone & Sorrow; now discover all its secretsWhy is Derra bathed in purple light? What does her iXian plaint for Kalina mean? Which other medieval Irish and Welsh stories inspired part of the book? What on earth is going on with those calcified brains? What were the hospitality wafers based on? And how on earth do you pronounce everything?This companion vol...
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    12,91 €

  • Fear & Folklore
    Allen Sircy
    The ultimate predator was not born in a Hollywood studio; it was stitched together from the blood-soaked soil of history. Before the brooding teenagers of modern fiction, the vampire was a bloated, red-faced corpse that refused to stay buried in the ground. From the brutal impalements of Vlad III to the 'Blood Countess' Elizabeth Báthory, real-life figures provided the terrifyi...
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    13,59 €

  • Encyclopedia of Gods & Deities - Central & South American Mythology
    Ziggy Quinete
    Unveil the Sacred Powers of Central & South AmericaStep into a world where Feathered Serpents descend from the heavens, sun gods demand sacrifice, mountains become living ancestors, creator beings emerge from primordial darkness, sacred lakes give birth to dynasties, shamans communicate with powerful spirits, and divine forces govern rain, maize, fertility, warfare, death, the ...
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    42,87 €

  • The Illustrated Dogman
    Lochlainn Seabrook
    Step into the shadows and explore the chilling mysteries of Dogman.In The Illustrated Dogman: The World’s First Comprehensive Visual Study of the Wolfman Phenomenon, author, historian, naturalist, explorer, and artist Lochlainn Seabrook ventures to the frontiers of science to investigate one of cryptozoology’s most compelling enigmas. Reported throughout all of North America, D...
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    35,51 €

  • Turgescent Twilight
    Shikhandin
    Turgescent Twilight is a richly layered and evocative poetry collection by Shikhandin, weaving together myth, memory, and imagination into a haunting lyrical tapestry. Structured across multiple thematic sections, the collection journeys through introspection, mortality, transformation, ecological unease, and the fragile tensions between humanity and the natural world.The poems...
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    12,81 €

  • TALL TALES OF THE WEST VIRGINIA HILLS
    Ken Fowler
    In the hills of West Virginia, the past never stays buried.Beneath the mist-covered ridges and deep Appalachian hollers lies a history shaped by coal, conflict, catastrophe, folklore, and extraordinary resilience.In Tall Tales of the West Virginia Hills, Dr. Ken Fowler journeys into the stories that helped shape the Mountain State, preserving the history and storytelling tradit...
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    30,82 €

  • Becoming Jeannie
    Jeannie Leather
    Becoming Jeannie. My Male to Female Story.'Join me on a journey of self-discovery, as I share my struggles and triumphs in embracing my true identity. From the darkness of secrecy to the light of acceptance, this memoir is a raw and honest exploration of what it means to live authentically. With courage and vulnerability, I recount the terrifying days of being examined by other...
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    9,68 €

  • Jungian Archetypes, Foundations and Frameworks Series
    Julian Smith
    Jungian archetypes, explained in plain language and covered in full. This guide walks through Carl Jung’s map of the psyche from the persona you wear at work to the shadow you meet in your own sharpest reactions to strangers, and on to the Self he placed at the center of a whole life. The chapters build in order, starting with the break between Jung and Freud and ending with t...
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    17,23 €

  • Goddesses of the World
    Yowann Byghan
    For much of recorded history, male gods have been regarded as more important or more powerful than their female counterparts. However, archaeological, prehistoric, and early historical evidence indicates that goddesses were once widely venerated as supreme deities, and in some modern cultures this reverence persists today. While goddesses are well-known parts of Greek and Eg...
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    42,55 €

  • Heroic Romances of Ireland
    A. H. Leahy
    Arthur Herbert Leahy published Heroic Romances of Ireland in two volumes in 1905 and 1906, and made a decision no other translator of the period made: for the verse passages he prints his own metrical rendering and a literal prose translation of the same Irish, so the two can be read against each other.That is the reason to reprint him rather than a smoother modern retelling. E...
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    27,10 €

  • Blood and Blossom
    Afrooz Areffard
    The hero dies. The body meets the earth. And from that single contact, a plant is born-carrying the fallen one’s essence in leaf and root, forever.It is the oldest story humans have never stopped telling. In Egypt, Osiris becomes the wheat that feeds a civilization. In West Africa, the Igbo yam-spirit Nri gives his body so his people might eat. Across six ancient cultures and t...
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    13,14 €

  • Modern Apocalyptic Folklore
    PRSC Whitley
    Modern Apocalyptic Folklore examines the stories, rumours, beliefs and recurring narratives that emerge when societies imagine disaster, collapse and the end of the world.From conspiracy theories and technological nightmares to pandemics, environmental catastrophe, war, social breakdown and predictions of civilisational collapse, the book explores how modern fears are transform...
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    26,51 €

  • The Burden Of Isis
    James Teackle Dennis
    This illustrated edition contains carefully selected illustrations, a detailed summary, an author biography, and a helpful characters list.Enter the sacred world of ancient Egypt through The Burden of Isis, James Teackle Dennis’s evocative translation of The Laments of Isis and Nephthys.Following the death of Osiris, the goddesses Isis and Nephthys mourn their beloved and call ...
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    22,30 €

  • 101 Haunted Houses, Gothic Mansions & Cursed Estates
    Sarah Melland
    Visit Small Cities presents The Dark Travel Anthology: Book 3 a journey through 101 haunted houses, Gothic mansions, cursed estates, murder homes, literary landmarks, and abandoned residences where history never truly moved out.Behind every locked door is a story. Some begin with family tragedy, vanished fortunes, violent crime, or generations of grief. Others grew from whisper...
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    18,00 €

  • Sasquatch
    Aaron Deese
    What is the Sasquatch Variable?Despite centuries of stories, decades of research, hundreds of eyewitness testimonies, and unprecedented leaps in available technology, the creature we refer to as Sasquatch remains largely hidden from most of the world. Somehow, some way, a creature which is described as being six to ten feet tall and would seem to weigh hundreds of pounds has ma...
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    20,89 €

  • Veils, Vows & Very Bad Omens
    Hope Springfield
    Should a bride wear pearls? Is rain a blessing-or a warning? And why should you never let a cat lick your wedding shoes?From lucky horseshoes and hidden sixpences to ominous owls, enchanted mirrors, protective veils and wedding cakes said to reveal the future, marriage has always attracted an extraordinary collection of beliefs.Veils, Vows & Very Bad Omens travels through centu...
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    16,55 €

  • The Heroes of Asgard
    Annie Keary / Eliza Keary
    Annie Keary was a novelist and children’s writer; her sister Eliza was a poet. In 1857 they set out to do for the Norse material what Charles Kingsley had done for the Greek, and the book they produced held the field in English for the better part of a century.Their method was narrative. Rather than present the gods as a pantheon to be memorised, they told the cycle as a single...
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    18,72 €

  • Xorazm Dostonlaridagi Cholg’u Kuylarining Ahamiyati
    Sariyev Himoyat Matchonboyevich
    Xorazm Dostonlaridagi Cholg’u Kuylarining Ahamiyati (The Significance of Instrumental Melodies in Khorezm Epics) explores the artistic, aesthetic, and dramatic importance of instrumental melodies in the Khorezm school of Uzbek epic performance. The study presents folk epics as a richly syncretic art form in which narrative, vocal expression, and instrumental music work together...
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    23,87 €

  • Germanic Sanctuaries
    Wilhelm Teudt
    Did the Germanic peoples already have their own advanced culture before coming into contact with the Romans and the West Franks? In his magnum opus Germanic Sanctuaries, first published in 1929, Wilhelm Teudt attempts to find archaeological evidence for an advanced Germanic civilization. Teudt’s research focuses on the area southwest of Detmold, known as the Osningmark. He hypo...
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    23,94 €

  • The Real History of Armaaruss
    Anthony of Boston
    The Real History of ArmaarussOsiris rules Egypt with justice until his brother Set, incited by a devious deity, murders and dismembers him. Isis gathers the pieces, revives him long enough to conceive a son, and raises that son, Horus, in hiding. Grown to strength, Horus hunts down Set in his hippopotamus form and avenges his father, and the Ptolemaic kings ritually re-enact th...
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    24,44 €

  • Wisdom From The Hills
    Nyenabone
    This book begins by presenting the history of the Ejagham people. It narrates the origin of Ejagham Oban and leadership successions. The book then documents the various cultural forms that shape the Ejagham Oban’s cultural, religious, historical, and spiritual aspects. This work presents cultural forms related to birth, marriage, initiation, and death. It also examines traditio...
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    12,92 €


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