Popular beliefs and controversial knowledge Books

Television has long been a familiar vehicle for fairy tales and is, in some ways, an ideal medium for the genre. Both more mundane and more wondrous than cinema, TV magically captures sounds and images that float through the air to bring them into homes,...

From Paul Verhoeven’s The Cold Heart in 1950 to Konrad Petzold’s The Story of the Goose Princess and Her Loyal Horse Falada in 1989, East Germany’s state-sponsored film company, DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), produced over...

To the uninitiated, the films of French New Wave director Jacques Demy can seem strange and even laughable, with their gaudy color schemes and sung dialogue. Yet since the late 1990s, a generation of queer filmmakers in France have found new inspiration...

Fairy-tale adaptations are ubiquitous in modern popular culture, but readers and scholars alike may take for granted the many voices and traditions folded into today's tales. In Fairy Tales Transformed?: Twenty-First-Century Adaptations and the...

The stories in the Grimm brothers' Kinder- und Hausmärchen (Children's and Household Tales), first published in 1812 and 1815, have come to define academic and popular understandings of the fairy tale genre. Yet over a period of forty years,...

Across various time periods, audiences, aesthetics, and cultural landscapes, Little Red Riding Hood is a universal icon, and her story is one of the world's most retold tales. In Revisioning Red Riding Hood Around the World: An Anthology of...

In Critical and Creative Perspectives on Fairy Tales: An Intertextual Dialogue between Fairy-Tale Scholarship and Postmodern Retellings Vanessa Joosen broadens the traditional concept of intertextuality to include academic texts. With three key texts...

The Arabian Nights commands a place in world literature unrivaled by any other fictional work of "Oriental" provenance. Bringing together Indian, Iranian, and Arabic tradition, this collection of tales became popular in the Western world during...

Recent decades have witnessed a renaissance of interest in the fairy tale, not least among writers of fiction. In Contemporary Fiction and the Fairy Tale, editor Stephen Benson argues that fairy tales are one of the key influences on fiction of the past...

In this enjoyable volume, Kay Stone has selected writings from her scholarly articles and books spanning 1975–2004 that contain reflections on the value of fairy tales as adult literature. The title Some Day Your Witch Will Come twists a Walt...

In a 2004 meeting marking the Arabian Nights’ tercentennial at the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, nineteen international scholars presented their work on the transnational aspects of the Arabian Nights. This volume collects...

The goals and challenges that face the people of Israel are vividly illustrated by the country’s many folk stories. Here Haya Bar-Itzhak presents these tales—gathered from the early settlers of the kibbutz, from immigrants who arrived in...

Anyone who has ever filled in a form in triplicate, taken an aptitude test, or been rebuffed by a form letter will appreciate the urban folklore found in this collection. Urban people as a folk are bound together by their unhappy experiences in battling...

Office copier folklore—those tattered sheets of cartoons, mottoes, zany poems, defiant sayings, parodies, and crude jokes that regularly circulate in office buildings everywhere—is the subject of this innovative study. this type of folklore...

Raphael Patai' s (1910-1996) lifelong fascination with Arab folktales began on a Ramadan night in 1933, at a cafe in Jerusalem where, for the first time, he heard a famous qassas, a storyteller, tirelessly relate story after story from his vast...

Women's Folklore, Women's CultureEdited by Rosan Jordan and Susan Kalcik"The studies herein elevate the humble, examine the small domestic detail, set forth the praiseworthy in the everyday, seek joy in the ordinary, capture the comfort in the community...

Sky Loom offers a dazzling introduction to Native American myths, stories, and songs drawn from previous collections by acclaimed translator and poet Brian Swann. With a general introduction by Swann, Sky Loom is a stunning collection that provides a...

En este libro encontrarás todas las predicciones para tu signo del Horóscopo Chino y rituales para cada mes del año 2024. ¿Está planeando iniciar un nuevo negocio? ¿Estás motivado para encontrar el amor? ¡Estas predicciones para 2024 lo tienen todo! El...

¿Por qué este libro? Este libro nace de la necesidad imperante de denunciar el estado actual de las cosas. La indignación de ver el rumbo que ha tomado nuestra sociedad me ha llevado a escribir este libro, esperando de aportar un poco de luz, quizás de...

¿"Explorando Mis Sueños"? "Descubre el Mundo Fascinante de tu Mente Nocturna" Explora los misterios de tus noches con "Explorando Mis Sueños", tu guía completa para la interpretación y significado de sueños. Descubre el fascinante mundo de la psicología...

Con las palabras de estos hechizos vikingos, puedes invocar a los espíritus de antaño, forjar tu camino a través de los desafíos que se avecinan y abrazar la magia que resuena a través de los siglos. Que las Nornas tejan hilos de fortuna a tu favor, y...

In the profound and compassionate exploration within the pages of "Hope Prevails: Transforming Despair into a Life Worth Living," SREEKUMAR V T extends a guiding hand to those navigating the shadows of despair. This transformative book is not just a...

With the words of these Viking spells, may you invoke the spirits of old, forge your path through the challenges that lie ahead, and embrace the magic that echoes across the ages. May the Norns weave threads of fortune in your favor, and may the echoes...

I have come down to Earth to communicate with you for several reasons. One is to be present among humans with teachings before the new Golden Age of Light. Another is to awaken your inner knowledge that has been hidden since the fall of Atlantis. A third...

Carl G. Jung broke with Sigmund Freud to develop his own form of analytical psychology, based on the ideas of the archetypes and the collective unconscious. He also found those concepts exhibited in myth and religion.   Jung got a number...

The Keys to the Kingdom are Yours for the Taking!The official Mardukite Systemology "Advanced Training Course" is now available in print for the first time.Those Seekers that have completed the "Pathway to Ascension" Systemology Professional Course can...

A wheel of ravens   revelled loudlyOver a bitter battle   of bold fightersWho lost their lives   and lay in mud,A feast of flesh   for the frenzied birds...From Adam Bolivar, balladeer...

Have you always been curious about the mysteries surrounding the Norse Futhark runes? Do you believe that learning how to read runes will help you make better decisions?Do you need a refresher on how to cast your runes and read them? If you answered yes...

Since 1994, Animals & Men has been the world's premier cryptozoological periodical, covering all aspects of the study of unknown animals. As of 2015, new issues of Animals & Men can be purchased in two formats, as a printed paperback and as a...

From the Arthurian mythos to Scandinavia, from ancient Greece to Renaissance poetry and beyond, the awesome power of the Faerie Queens to inspire, challenge and transform is investigated and discussed from both scholarly and personal perspectives...

Not only the first book by Lefranc, but the first to accuse of a Masonic conspiracy behind the French Revolution, The Veil Lifted for the Curious is of enormous historical importance. The book pre-dated Augustin Barruel's Memoirs Illustrating the History...

Since 1994, Animals & Men has been the world's premier cryptozoological periodical, covering all aspects of the study of unknown animals. As of 2015, new issues of Animals & Men can be purchased in two formats, as a printed paperback and as a...

Storytelling plays an important part in the vibrant cultural life of Zambia and in many other communities across Africa. This innovative book provides a collection and analysis of oral narrative traditions as practiced by five Bemba-speaking ethnic...

Halloween is a festival seen in numerous nations on 31 october, the night before the western christian banquet of all blesses' day. It starts the recognition of allhallowtide, the time in the formal year committed to recollecting the dead, including holy...

In the early period of predynastic Egyptian history, there was a teaching of the Osirian doctrine. This was a special teaching describing the philosophy of mastering and discovering one's true self. Pepi Mckenzie has uncovered the link between the...

Two manuscripts in one book:Norse Magic for Beginners: The Ultimate Guide to Norse Divination, Reading Elder Futhark Runes, and SpellsAsatru: The Ultimate Guide to Norse Paganism, Heathenry, and Asatru for BeginnersIf you are curious about the mysteries...

Disrupting Fraternity Culture explores how young men and women perform male and female roles to "fit in" during the college or young adult years. It is arguable that many young men "perform" the role of the hegemonic male to fit in among peers, and that...

A bewitching convocation of Dixie's most frightening ghost talesFrom backwaters as dark as a cypress swamp to nooks as mysterious as a musty college library, southerners have conjured spirits and told ghost stories.Shadows and Cypress: Southern Ghost...

"Who are we and why are we here?""Is life an illusion and are we mere characters in this movie we call life?""What are the themes and patterns of your life story?""What beliefs have shaped your life, and are you still holding on to them?"These are some...

No Tapes = No Justice! Judge Brian Barnett Duff, Seventh Circuit Federal District Court; Duff talking about the audiotapes; “If you could get them, then everybody in the world could get them, and we would be playing them every night on Channel 7, Channel...

The folktales of A. N. Afanas�ev represent the largest single collection of folktales in any European language and perhaps in the world. Widely regarded as the Russian Grimm, Afanas�ev collected folktales from throughout the Russian Empire in what are...

The extensive influence of the creative traditions derived from slave culture, particularly black folklore, in the work of nineteenth- and twentieth-century black authors, such as Ralph Ellison and Toni Morrison, has become a hallmark of African American...

Superman rose from popular culture �comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies� but people have so embraced the character that he has now becomepart of folklore. This transition from popular to folk culture signals the...

This fascinating book, written by K. E. Maltwood, contains a detailed guide to the 'Temple of the Stars' in Glastonbury, England. This fascinating text includes a wealth of information on this marvelous location, and offers the reader detailed...

The Edinburgh Dinnshenchas, a collection of legends in middle Irish prose and verse, about the names of noteworthy places in Ireland. This incredibly rare and unusual book, will be of great interest to anybody with a love for Celtic poetry and myth. Many...

The Sun and Water have been worshiped since prehistoric times, as the givers of life. This fascinating book is a look at the history and reason behind this chapter of early religion. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the...