Folklore & Mythology
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Improving Your Storytelling: Beyond the Basics for All Who Tell Stories in Work or Play
$21.95 Add to cartThe first steps in storytelling are often easy, because we tell stories informally every day. Once you take storytelling into the more formal contexts of performance or occupational uses, however, you… [more below]
- Author: Lipman, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 15 2005
- ISBN10: 0874835305
- Language: English
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Werewolf Stories: Shape-Shifters, Lycanthropes, and Man-Beasts
$24.95 Add to cartBeware the Full Moon! Take a hair-raising tour of werewolf legends. Meet shape-shifters, dogmen, and all variety of human and lupine mixes in this blood curling story collection from two distinguished… [more below]
- Series: Real Unexplained! Collection
- Author: Redfern, Nick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1578597668
- Language: English
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The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance
$19.95 Read moreJoseph Campbell’s collected writings on dance and art, edited and introduced by Nancy Allison, CMA, the founder of Jean Erdman Dance, and including Campbell’s unpublished manuscript “Mythology and For… [more below]
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1608688895
- Language: English
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The Flaming Ship of Ocracoke and Other Tales of the Outer Banks
$19.95 Add to cartEvery September, on the first night of the new moon, there are those who vow they see a flaming ship sail three times past the coast of Ocracoke. No matter the direction or velocity of the wind, this
- Author: Whedbee, Charles Harry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 153
- Publish Date: January 01 1971
- ISBN10: 0910244618
- Language: English
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Treasury of Fantastic and Mythological Creatures: 1,087 Renderings from Historic Sources
$14.95 Read moreDrawing on centuries of history, this work is an encyclopedic collection — undoubtedly the largest royalty-free collection of its kind — of devils, dragons, mythical creatures, fanciful beasts, anim
- Series: Dover Pictorial Archive
- Author: Huber, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 1981
- ISBN10: 0486241742
- Language: English
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The Complete Language of Herbs: A Definitive and Illustrated History – Pocket Edition
$16.99 Add to cartDiscover the meanings, powers, facts, and folklore for over 500 herbs and spices in The Complete Language of Herbs–now in a pocket-size edition for easy, on-the-go reference.
Along with a beautiful- Author: Dietz, S. Theresa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1577154126
- Language: English
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The Grail Legend
$39.00 Add to cartThe Holy Grail and its quest is a legend that has had a powerful impact on our civilization and culture. The Grail itself is an ancient Celtic symbol of plenty as well as a Christian symbol of redempt
- Author: Jung, Emma
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: October 25 1998
- ISBN10: 0691002371
- Language: English
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Shasta Indian Tales
$7.95 Add to cartCharming tales for all ages, come from the storytelling heritage of the Shasta, an Indian tribe that lived in the presence o the highest mountain in Northern California. A variety of myths recount the… [more below]
- Author: Holsinger, Rosemary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 50
- Publish Date: October 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0879611294
- Language: English
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Gilgamesh
$22.00 Add to cartComposed over 2,500 years, lost in the deserts of Iraq for 2,000 more, Gilgamesh presents a palimpsest of ancient Middle Eastern cultic and courtly lyrics and lore. The story of a visionary journey be
- Author: Kendall, Stuart T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: January 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0983697205
- Language: English
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Cuentos Folkloricos Latinoamericanos: Fábulas de Las Tradiciones Hispanas E Indà Genas / Latin American Folktales: Stories from Hispanic and Indian Tr
$19.95 Add to cartExtendiendo a veinte pa ses y quinientos a os, desde los mitos coloniales m s tempranos hasta los cuentos orales coleccionados en el siglo veinte desde el sur de California, Florida, Texas y Nuevo M x… [more below]
- Author: Bierhorst, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0375713972
- Language: Spanish
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
$22.00 Read moreIn Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories–Hermes in Greec
- Author: Hyde, Lewis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0374532559
- Language: English
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The Sun Came Down: The History of the World as My Blackfeet Elders Told It
$32.95 Add to cartAt the age of sixty-seven, Percy Bullchild (1915-1986), a Blackfeet Indian from Browning, Montana, with little formal education in English, set out to put the oral traditions and history of his people… [more below]
- Author: Bullchild, Percy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: October 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0803262507
- Language: English
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The Greek Myths That Shape the Way We Think
$34.95 Add to cartHow do ancient Greek myths find themselves retold and reinterpreted in cultures across the world, several millennia later? In this volume, bestselling author Richard Buxton explores the power that eig
- Series: Myths That Shape the Way We Think #1
- Author: Buxton, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0500518807
- Language: English
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Pathways to Bliss: Mythology and Personal Transformation
$23.95 Add to cartJoseph Campbell famously defined myth as “other people’s religion.” But he also said that one of the basic functions of myth is to help each individual through the journey of life, providing a sort of… [more below]
- Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell
- Author: Campbell, Joseph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 26 2004
- ISBN10: 1577314719
- Language: English
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The Little Book of Goddesses: An Empowering Introduction to Glorious Goddesses
$9.99 Read moreAn engaging, accessible and empowering guide to the some of the world’s most influential goddesses
Embrace the power of the divine in this beginner’s guide to some of mythology’s fiercest females and- Series: Little Book of
- Author: Carvel, Astrid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1800071981
- Language: English
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Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth from Hawaii
$12.99 Add to cartA colorful illustration of Hawaii’s most cherished origin story, the myth of Pele and Hiiaka.
Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii (1915) is a collection of folktales by Nathaniel B. Emerson. Drawing fr
- Series: Mint Editions – Hawaiian Library
- Author: Emerson, Nathaniel B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1513299689
- Language: English
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The Cat on the Dovrefell: A Christmas Tale
$8.99 Read moreA very large cat may be the key to saving Christmas in this wryly humorous retelling of the Norwegian fairy tale The Cat on the Dovrefjell.
When a man captures a great white bear, he is determined t- Author: dePaola, Tomie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1534466606
- Language: English
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The Mighty Goddess: World Myths
$26.99 Read moreThe Goddess in all her glory! A celebration of important and powerful goddess mythologies from around the world.
This stunning collection brings together goddess mythologies from across the globe: fa- Author: Pomme Clayton, Sally
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 075099617X
- Language: English
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Buddhist Folk Tales
$24.99 Add to cartAn exciting set of tales from the Buddhist tradition to inspire, move, challenge and amuse
This collection of Buddhist stories has been performed to audiences all over the country and offers a Buddhi- Author: Walker, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0750998652
- Language: English
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The Time Traveller’s Herbal: An Historical Handbook for the Budding Apothecary
$24.99 Add to cartThe herbalist has had many names throughout the ages – Cunning Woman, Wise Woman, even Witch – all hiding the truth of what they are… early pioneers of science, and fountains of traditional, nature-… [more below]
- Author: Edmiston, Amanda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1446309916
- Language: English
