Folklore & Mythology
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The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries
$22.95 Read moreThis collection of reports of elfin creatures in Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Brittany ranks among the most scholarly works ever published on the subject. The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries begins w… [more below]
- Series: Celtic, Irish
- Author: Evans-Wentz, W. Y.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 02 2011
- ISBN10: 486425223
- Language: English
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Myths of the Cherokee
$29.95 Read moreNoted anthropologist James Mooney (1861-1921) spent much of his life studying American Indians. In North Carolina, he lived for several years with the Cherokee, studying their language, culture, and m… [more below]
- Series: Native American (Paperback)
- Author: Mooney, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0486289079
- Language: English
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Serpents and Other Spiritual Beings
$25.00 Add to cartSerpents and Other Spiritual Beings is the second book in a series by renowned Ojibwe storyteller Bomgiizhik Isaac Murdoch, following on The Trail of Nenaboozhoo and Other Creation Stories (2019). Ser
- Author: Murdoch, Bomgiizhik Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: October 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1928120350
- Language: English
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Our Stories Remember: American Indian History, Culture, and Values through Storytelling
$16.95 Add to cartAn illuminating look at Native origins and lifeways, a treasure for all who value Native wisdom and the stories that keep it alive.
- Author: Bruchac, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1555911293
- Language: English
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Legends of the Capilano
$24.95 Add to cartBringing the Legends home
Legends of the Capilano updates E. Pauline Johnson’s 1911 classic Legends of Vancouver, restoring Johnson’s intended title for the first time. This new edition celebrates th
- Series: First Voices, First Texts #6
- Author: Johnson (Tekahionwake), E. Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1772840173
- Language: English
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Inuit Stories of Being and Rebirth: Gender, Shamanism, and the Third Sex
$34.95 Add to cartUjarak, Iqallijuq, and Kupaaq were elders from the Inuit community on Igloolik Island in Nunavut. The three elders, among others, shared with Bernard Saladin d’Anglure the narratives which make up the
- Series: Contemporary Studies on the North #6
- Author: Saladin D’Anglure, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0887558305
- Language: English
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The Rotinonshonni: A Traditional Iroquoian History Through the Eyes of Teharonhia: Wako and Sawiskera
$24.95 Add to cartIn this book, Rice offers a comprehensive history based on the oral traditions of the Rotinonshonni “Longhouse People,” also known as the Iroquois. As a participant in a nearly 700-mile walk following
- Series: Iroquois and Their Neighbors
- Author: Rice, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: March 29 2016
- ISBN10: 081561067X
- Language: English
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Encyclopedia of Urban Legends
$42.99 Add to cartWe all know those stories that are too bizarre to be true roasted babies, vanishing hitchhikers, scuba divers in trees but have you heard about the ice man or the bullet baby? This comprehensive and c… [more below]
- Author: Brunvand, Jan Harold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0393323587
- Language: English
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I Thought My Father Was God: And Other True Tales from NPR’s National Story Project
$30.00 Add to cartThe true-life stories in this unique collection provide a window into the American mind and heart (The Daily News). One hundred and eighty voices – male and female, young and old, from all walks of li
- Author: Auster, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 383
- Publish Date: September 07 2002
- ISBN10: 0312421001
- Language: English
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On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears
$33.99 Add to cartHailed as “a feast” (Washington Post) and “a modern-day bestiary” (The New Yorker), Stephen Asma’s On Monsters is a wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters–how they have evolved over… [more below]
- Author: Asma, Stephen T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2009
- ISBN10: 019533616X
- Language: English
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Oedipus and Akhnaton: Myth and History
$21.99 Add to cartWho hasn’t heard of him – Oedipus, the tragic figure from Greek mythology whose shocking fate has moved so many generations, inspired so many writers and even found his way into modern psychology thro
- Author: Velikovsky, Immanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 218
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1906833184
- Language: English
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Forgotten Tales of Pennsylvania
$14.99 Add to cartWhat do you really know about the Keystone State?
William Penn, the Revolutionary figures of Philadelphia, and the strength of Pittsburgh’s steel all loom large in Pennsylvania’s history, but author Th
- Series: Forgotten Tales
- Author: White, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 01 2009
- ISBN10: 159629812X
- Language: English
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Legends & Lore of East Tennessee
$23.99 Add to cartAuthor Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region.
The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generati
- Series: American Legends
- Author: Simmons, Shane S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 08 2016
- ISBN10: 1467136387
- Language: English
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Being Dakota: Tales and Traditions of the Sisseton and Wahpeton
$19.95 Add to cartAt the beginning of the twentieth century, a few members of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota community in northeastern South Dakota, while living in the white world, quietly worked to preserve the customs… [more below]
- Author: Oneroad, Amos E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 214
- Publish Date: June 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0873515307
- Language: English
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Laughing with the Trickster: On Sex, Death, and Accordions
$17.99 Read moreBrilliant, jubilant insights into the glory and anguish of life from one of the world’s most treasured Indigenous creators.
Trickster is zany, ridiculous. The ultimate, over-the-top, madcap fool. Her
- Series: CBC Massey Lectures
- Author: Highway, Tomson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1487011237
- Language: English
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Haunted South Georgia
$21.99 Add to cartEach county in the vast territory of southern Georgia has a haunted history. The old Barber-Tucker Inn in Colquitt County and the renovated former Scottish Inn in Bryan County host ghostly guests. A p… [more below]
- Series: Haunted America
- Author: Miles, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 02 2017
- ISBN10: 1625859465
- Language: English
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The Fairy Kingdom
$12.95 Add to cartAre fairies real? What about gnomes, brownies, devas, angels, fauns, mannikins and nature spirits? Hodson explores the reality of all these beings (and more) in this entertaining and informative book…. [more below]
- Author: Hodson, Geoffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 124
- Publish Date: January 24 2003
- ISBN10: 1585092126
- Language: English
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Sacred Mushrooms: Secrets of Eleusis
$14.95 Add to cartIn the ancient world, men and women joined cults known as Mysteries to unite with the deities of the otherworld and achieve eternal life. The most important of the Mysteries existed for two millennia … [more below]
- Author: Ruck, Carl A. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2006
- ISBN10: 1579510302
- Language: English
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Washington Myths and Legends: The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
$16.95 Add to cartTales of intrigue in this book include unusual unsolved crimes, legends of lost treasure, spine-tingling ghost stories, well-documented sea creature sightings, and more. Based on historic accounts fro… [more below]
- Series: Legends of the West
- Author: Bragg, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493016032
- Language: English
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Budoji: A Tale of the Divine City of Ancient Korea with an Overview of Korean Shamanism
$25.00 Add to cartA powerful ancient story of indigenous Korea about the creation of the universe, the dawn of humanity, and more.
Now available in English for the first time, with an overview of Korean Shamanism
An esse
- Author: Cho, Sungje
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986937304
- Language: English
