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The woman who would be known as Mother Shipton was born Ursula Southeil towards the end of the fifteenth century. Popular legend recounts how she was born in a cave near the town of Knaresborough in North Yorkshire, northern England. Following the death...

The Purple Colored Church exposes the deception and betrayal of the mystery woman riding the beast in Revelation 17:3, who's religious doctrines may have led millions if not billions to the slaughter of Hell's fiery fury. Multitudes of people have been...

This early work by William Morris was originally published in 1899 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. William Morris was born in London, England in 1834. Arguably best known as a textile designer, he founded a design...

Maurice Bloomfield was an American philologist and Sanskrit scholar. Cerberus, The Dog of Hades discusses Cerberus in Greek and Roman literature, Cerberus in classical art, Veda, the two dogs of Yama, the two dogs of heaven, Cerberi in Norse and Persian...

2228 Proverbs: Collected from Various Countries (1854) by A Proverb-Loving Traveler is a book that contains a comprehensive collection of proverbs from different countries. The book is written in French and was published in 1854. The author, who is...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

In this Volume Two of the series Contemporary Shamanic Journeys, the author takes us on another decade of pilgrimage and spiritual learning around North America and various countries of Europe, connecting with indigenist and spiritualist tribes and...

Celebrated Claimants From Perkin Warbeck To Arthur Orton is a book written by John Boyd Thacher Collection and published in 1874. The book chronicles the lives of various individuals who claimed to be someone they were not, including Perkin Warbeck, who...

A New System of Mythology V3: Giving a Full Account of the Idolatry of the Pagan World (1812) by Robert Mayo is a comprehensive examination of the religious beliefs and practices of ancient pagan societies. The book explores the myths and legends of...

Welcome to Vampire Musings. My name is Bertena, and I am the publisher of this macabre book. Since I was a small child, I have loved vampires and even spent most of my college years studying the Lure of the Vampire. From these studies, I met so many...

This book ""Czech Folk Tales"" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for...

This book ""Current Superstitions; Collected from the Oral Tradition of English Speaking Folk"" has been considered important throughout the human history. It has been out of print for decades.So that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in...

¿De veras han ido seres humanos a la Luna tal y como nos han asegurado desde la infancia? ¿Fueron las misiones del programa Apolo el logro más grande de la humanidad o solo un gran montaje diseñado con fines que no...

Cómo la desinformación y la difusión de fake news llegaron a convertirse en otra peligrosa pandemia.Prólogos de Amós García (Médico Epidemiólogo y Vacunólogo, Presidente de la Asociación Española de Vacunología), y Alejandro Pascual Iglesias (Experto en...

Atlantis selbst habe ich immer als ein mystisches Märchen betrachtet. Aber auf der Suche nach der Herkunft des Menschen konnte ich mit den Jahren immer mehr Informationen zusammentragen und mich entsprechend informieren. So konnte ich die Möglichkeit...

Wie viele Liebschaften hatte Göttervater Zeus?Wer waren die Olympier?Was hat Odysseus mit der Odyssee zu tun?Hat Achilleus wirklich Troja erobert?Wer entführte Iphigenie nach Tauris?Woher hat die Argonautenfahrt ihren Namen?Wer entdeckte Mykene und...

See Paul Freeman and his bigfoot research uncovered like never before.An immersive book technology enabled book: listen, and watch first-hand, digitally enhanced clips that have never been revealed until now.Get exclusive access to the highest resolution...

There is a problem in the scientific community. They are more than happy to debate those who believe the Earth is flat. Yet, when one brings up Sasquatch, they quickly ignore the subject and shun anyone in the scientific community who does look into the...

One man's personal journey into the unknown. What started out as an uneventful upbringing on a farm quickly turned into a series of strange and unexplainable encounters that defied all logic. This story covers Jay's personal encounters with Bigfoot on a...

Have you ever encountered a noblewoman who was so beautiful that every time she walked by a body of water, the divine being who lived there kidnapped her? Or a mole who wanted to marry his beloved daughter to the wind? You will get to meet both of them...

Dos manuscritos en un libroSagas vikingas: La fascinante historia de Ragnar Lodbrok, Ivar el Deshuesado, Ladgerda y otros, en su contexto históricoCuentos de la era vikinga: Fascinantes sagas legendarias e históricasAl período comprendido entre el final...

Si está buscando una colección fascinante de mitos mesopotámicos, siga leyendo...Las civilizaciones que se desarrollaron en los valles de los ríos Tigris y Éufrates hace miles de años nos dejaron unos legados importantes: la agricultura, las matemáticas,...

Dos manuscritos en un libroMitología africana: Mitos fascinantes sobre dioses, diosas y criaturas legendarias de ÁfricaDioses egipcios: Una fascinante guía de Atum, Horus, Set, Isis, Anubis, Ra, Thoth, Sejmet, Geb, Hathor y otros dioses y diosas del...

Is there a lineage of goddesses that claims the evolutionary power of female sexuality? And if so, why were they pushed to the shadows and demeaned as harlots? Was Mary Magdalene one of them, and what were her teachings?Dr. Joanna Kujawa argues that in...

Is Edwards a typical Englishman? He is lazy but can work hard. He likes his home comforts. When he can get it, he likes the High Life. He is sociable, but hates crowds. He has an ability to fit in, especially with foreigners.But Edwards seems to get...

It is a common notion that Africa has, and indeed ought to have, learned much from the west. This is not wrong; all cultures rightly learn from each other. But less is said of what there is to learn from Africa: from her stories, myths, music, proverbs,...

In this third installment of The Widow Maker Trilogy, the sun has started to set on the final breaths of the life of ex-prostitue, ex-drug addict, homeless old lady Sheila Parker. She struggles through a weakened immune system and a malaria like fever...

The ancient myths bears their fangs in this illustrated book by noted artist Michael Bukowski. As a child, the artist read the works of H.P. Lovecraft and discovered how that weird fiction author name-dropped a veritable who's who of gods and creatures...

The story of the Exodus of Moses and the people of Israel has been told many times and in many ways, especially in movies like The Ten Commandments. The Israelites are being led to the Promised Land, but because of their faithlessness, most are banished...

Awakening comes at different times and in different ways. This is the story of one women's quest for greater knowledge of the higher unknown spiritual world. Her husband's death in an auto accident followed by her daughter's near death two years and two...

Our understanding of Celtic astrology is based mainly on the speculations of modern authors--mostly drawn from classical Greek and Roman writings--and suffers from many misconceptions. European astrology uses the Greek model, containing many...

The early chroniclers of Britain presented the island as the promised land of the Roman goddess Diana. Later, when the story of Arthur was transformed by Christian mythology, a new literary concept of the island was promoted: the promised land of the...

Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god. The earliest Arthur was a warrior but in the 11th...

Superheroes have been an integral part of popular society for decades and have given rise to a collective mythology familiar in popular culture worldwide. Though scholars and fans have recognized and commented on this mythology, its structure has gone...

This charming early work, first published in 1901, is the seventh book in a series of twelve 'coloured' fairy books published by Andrew Lang. The 35 stories in this volume have been collected from Russia, Romania, Lithuania, Japan, Serbia, Africa,...

This beautiful fairy tale collection presents seven original versions of Snow White from around the world. Discover the origins of your favourite fairy tale in this wonderful anthology. Featuring seven different versions of Snow White, this volume...

This vintage book contains a collection of twelve classic fairy tales by Hans Christian Andersen and illustrated by Dugald Stewart Walker. Hans Christian Andersen (1805 - 1875) was a Danish writer. He wrote many poems, travelogues, and plays, but he is...

This vintage book contains Joseph Jacobs' 1916 collection of fairy tales, "European Folk and Fairy Tales", features over two dozen stories taken from popular oral tradition united with John D. Batten's black and white drawings. Heavily influenced by the...

A collection of nineteen of Hans Christian Andersen's most famous short stories, first published in 1912. Stories include: 'The Little Mermaid', 'The Emperor's New Clothes', 'Little Thumb', and 'The Snow Queen', 'The Galoshes of Fortune', 'The Red...

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Hope Dunlap', originally published in 1912, contains a wonderful collection of 36 of the Grimm's most loved fairy tales. Tales include: Rapunzel, Little Snow-White, Clever Gretel, Little Red-Cap, Thumbling, Little...

Grimm's Fairy Tales - Illustrated by Rie Cramer' was originally published in 1927. This fantastic collection contains over 50 of the Grimm's most loved fairy tales including; The Wolf and Seven Little Kids, Little Bother and Little Sister, The Seven...

Rumpelstiltskin - Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Rumpelstiltskin' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the provenance of 'Rumpelstiltskin'. It...

Rapunzel - Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Rapunzel' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the folkloric provenance of 'Rapunzel'. It...

Puss in Boots' - Origins of the Fairy Tale from around the World' contains seven different versions of the 'Puss in Boots' story. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the folkloric provenance of the 'Puss in...

Bluebeard - Origins of the Fairy Tales from around the World' contains seven different versions of the story of bluebeard. It includes an in-depth introduction to the fairy tale genre itself, as well as the folkloric provenance of the 'Bluebeard' story. ...

This book, 'R. Caldecott's Picture Book No. 1', is a collection of the first four stories he published in the Caldecott 'Picture Books' series. These were published in pairs, every year, from 1878 until his death in 1886. Stories compiled in this volume...