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  • Die Aisten Und Neuren Und Die Hyperboreer-sage... Die Aisten Und Neuren Und Die Hyperboreer-sage...
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    Die Aisten Und Neuren Und Die Hyperboreer-sage...

    In diesem Buch erforscht Georg Mair die Ursprünge der aistischen Mythologie sowie neure Forschungen zu den nordischen Hyperboreern. Mair zeigt, wie diese alten Glaubenssysteme noch immer Einfluss auf die modernen Gesellschaften haben.This work has been...
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  • Hermes Der Windgott Hermes Der Windgott
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    Hermes Der Windgott

    Dieses Buch bietet eine umfassende Einführung in die griechische Mythologie aus einer vergleichenden Perspektive. Es konzentriert sich besonders auf die Figur des Hermes, des Windgottes, und bietet eine faszinierende Analyse von Mythen und Legenden, die...
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  • Rainy River Lives Rainy River Lives
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    Rainy River Lives

    Rainy River Lives is the long-lost collection of stories of Ojibwe men and women as told by a hitherto unpublished, traditional Ojibwe storyteller, Maggie Wilson (1879-1940). Wilson lived on the Manitou Rapids Reserve on the Rainy River, which flows...
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  • Legends of Vietnam Legends of Vietnam
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    Legends of Vietnam

    Legends are a mirror of the culture that creates them, a revealing lens through which to observe society, religion, history, and traditions. This volume explores Vietnamese legends from 1321 to today--tales of gods, spirits, ghosts, giants,...
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  • The Halloween Encyclopedia, 2d ed. The Halloween Encyclopedia, 2d ed.
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    The Halloween Encyclopedia, 2d ed.

    A first edition of The Halloween Encyclopedia was published by McFarland in 2003 (Booklist: "a worthy addition to public and school libraries as well as the reference shelves of journalists and leaders of community events"); it was the first...
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    The Old Lore of the Moon
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    The Old Lore of the Moon

    Explore the Magic of the Moon Once upon a time, minister, lecturer, and astronomer Rev. Timothy Harley published Moon Lore, a culmination of his understanding of the moon and its many myths. Now lovingly updated and reproduced for a modern audience,...
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    The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body
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    The Shrinking Goddess: Power, Myth and the Female Body

    Wild and strange stories have circulated about the female body since antiquity. While legends of poisoned hymens and fanged vaginas circulated, the first female figure Mother Earth was recreated as a crooked rib. Ranging from the absurd to the...
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  • Missouri Nightmares Missouri Nightmares
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    Missouri Nightmares

    Embark on a bone-chilling journey through the dark and mysterious tales of Missouri in "Missouri Nightmares: The Top 10 Chilling Legends." This captivating book explores the eerie folklore and haunting legends that have gripped the imagination...
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  • Culture and History in the Pacific Culture and History in the Pacific
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    Culture and History in the Pacific

    Culture and History in the Pacific is a collection of essays originally published in 1990. The texts explore from different perspectives the question of culture as a repository of historical information. They also address broader questions of...
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  • Water and Oil Water and Oil
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    Water and Oil

    Do you think a story could change your thinking or maybe even give you an entirely new perspective on an idea that possibly contradicts every account you have been told or has been told to you since you were born?This story is new regarding who and why...
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  • More Strange Scotland More Strange Scotland
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    More Strange Scotland

    More Strange Scotland is a collection of anecdotes, facts, folklore and legends about the strangeness of that little nation on the western fringe of Europe.From fairies to witches and the frightening water horses, Scotland has a host of legends. Add...
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  • Gathering the Fragments Gathering the Fragments
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    Gathering the Fragments

    The central theme of this book is the importance of the act of shared memory in reconstituting identity in every generation. This is particularly so where the traditional culture of the community has been under threat from a powerful neighbour, as is the...
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  • Tort Law and How It's Tied to Our Culture Tort Law and How It's Tied to Our Culture
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    Tort Law and How It's Tied to Our Culture

    Tort Law & How It's Tied to Our Culture is a socio-legal history of the norms, customs, and eventual private laws for wrongs, or Tort. Oliver Wendel Holmes described law as "a grand anthropological document." This can be said with even greater force...
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  • BRAND NEW STORY OF CREATION BRAND NEW STORY OF CREATION
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    BRAND NEW STORY OF CREATION

    Brand New Story of Creation is the journey of an independent scholar, trained as a Jesuit and seasoned by top-tier executive business challenges. He takes on the avocation of answering the question: What am I doing on a ball spinning in space?The author...
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  • Far-Out, Shaggy, Funky Monsters Far-Out, Shaggy, Funky Monsters
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    Far-Out, Shaggy, Funky Monsters

    The rise of Sasquatch within the North American cultural landscape was neither recent nor simple. The mythical monster immediately captured the attention of the American public as newspapers explored the stories permeating the Pacific Northwest,...
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  • Still in Search of Prehistoric Survivors Still in Search of Prehistoric Survivors
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    Still in Search of Prehistoric Survivors

    It has been 21 years since the original publication back in 1995 of In Search of Prehistoric Survivors, considered by many to be Dr Karl Shuker's finest cryptozoological volume. Not surprisingly, then, in subsequent years there has been a growing,...
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  • The Practice of Enchantment The Practice of Enchantment
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    The Practice of Enchantment

    It might often seem that the facts of life are hard, that we must stay ever alert for threats and pitfalls. The modern world seems to require strict rationality and pitiless focus, holding no place for magic, enchantment, or elusive ideas such as...
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  • Illustrated Greek Mythology Illustrated Greek Mythology
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    Illustrated Greek Mythology

    How many Greek gods, goddesses and heroes do you know of? Which of their stories do you like best? This book is a collection of Greece's mythology, which is said to be their living stories. Myths are interesting tales because they are reflective of the...
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  • Folklore and Book Culture Folklore and Book Culture
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    Folklore and Book Culture

    To many observers, folklore and book culture may appear to be opposites. Folklore, after all, involves orally circulated stories and traditions while book culture is concerned with the transmission of written texts. However, as Kevin J. Hayes points out,...
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  • Damned Facts Damned Facts
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    Damned Facts

    'I have a confession to make. My secret inner reaction to claims of anomalous phenomena is usually this: we haven't yet converged to even a half-decent ontology to explain the ordinary, why bother with the extra-ordinary? What this fascinating book does,...
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  • The Enchanted Advent The Enchanted Advent
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    The Enchanted Advent

    The Enchanted Advent: 36 Days of Christmas Wonders invites readers on a magical journey through the heart of the holiday season. This beautifully crafted book celebrates the 36 days leading up to Christmas, blending captivating stories, timeless...
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  • Exploring the Islands, History, and Mythology of Greece Exploring the Islands, History, and Mythology of Greece
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    Exploring the Islands, History, and Mythology of Greece

    Exploring the Islands, History, and Mythology of Greece by Tristan Evergreen is a captivating journey through the heart of Greece. With a master's level academic background and six months of immersive travel experience, Evergreen offers a rich...
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  • The Ultimate Boogeyman Safari The Ultimate Boogeyman Safari
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    The Ultimate Boogeyman Safari

    The Ultimate Boogeyman Safari: A Journey into the Boogie World and Beyond is a thrilling exploration of the shadowy realm where the creatures of our darkest nightmares dwell. This book is your definitive guide to understanding, confronting, and...
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  • Fear & Folklore Fear & Folklore
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    Fear & Folklore

    Embark on a chilling journey across the United States with "Fear & Folklore: American Monsters." This gripping exploration delves into the shadows of American history to unearth the most notorious cryptids and monsters that have haunted the nation's...
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  • When the Sun Sleeps When the Sun Sleeps
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    When the Sun Sleeps

    When the Sun Sleeps includes folktales of Africa, from the Egyptian tales of magic and enchantment to the believable anthropomorphic tales told across the continent, all of them skillfully retold. Folktales are notoriously mutable. A story thought to...
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  • Das Laonomicon Das Laonomicon
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    Das Laonomicon

    Seit 25 Jahren beschäftigt sich Kim Gallagher mit der Zahlensymbolik. In diesem Zeitraum ist sie auch mit ihrem satanistischen Ex-Partner zusammengekommen. Der schwarzmagische Krieg, der in dieser Beziehung begann, dauerte 21 Jahre, bis sie sich...
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  • Der 5 Minuten Druide Der 5 Minuten Druide
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    Der 5 Minuten Druide

    "Sobald ich anfing, ´The Five-Minute Druid´ zu lesen, fand ich eine Einfachheit, die ermutigend und eine Einladung zu diesem Weg war, der allen Altersgruppen und Fähigkeiten offen steht. Möge dieses Buch viele erreichen und alle inspirieren." Eamonn...
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  • Monster Law Monster Law
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    Monster Law

    Uncover the hidden world where myth meets legislation in Monster Law by Francisco Arbenz. This captivating journey through America's most enigmatic locales reveals an astonishing truth: legendary creatures like Bigfoot and the Jersey Devil aren't just...
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  • Stories for When the Wolves Arrive Stories for When the Wolves Arrive
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    Stories for When the Wolves Arrive

    Stories for When the Wolves Arrive is both an academic and psychological exploration into the deeper themes behind our best-known fairy tales. This poetry collection examines feminism, anti-capitalism, trauma, and healing within the folktale...
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  • Mitología Maya Mitología Maya
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    Mitología Maya

    Si está buscando una fascinante colección de mitos mayas, siga leyendo...Desde las fantásticas hazañas de los héroes gemelos, a las historias de cómo surgió el mundo, a los cuentos populares sobre personas, animales y seres sobrenaturales, la mitología...
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  • Mitología mesoamericana Mitología mesoamericana
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    Mitología mesoamericana

    Cuarta manuscritos en un libroMitología Maya: Fascinantes mitos mayas sobre los dioses, diosas y criaturas legendariasMitología azteca: Mitos fascinantes aztecas de los dioses, diosas y criaturas legendariasMitología Inca: Mitos fascinantes incas sobre...
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  • How We Move Toward Light How We Move Toward Light
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    How We Move Toward Light

    The mood and scope of the whole are sounded in Part I, The New Odysseus, a series of twenty linked poems,where a somewhat weary new Odysseus invokes his legendary adventures and various gods as he wandersboth in the Tacoma present and yet in other lands...
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  • Oblivion in Flux Oblivion in Flux
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    Oblivion in Flux

    "A vibrant imagination, a striking use of metaphor and symbol, and a sure grasp of form and nuance-all these elements make this book a memorable venture into cosmic terror."-S. T. Joshi Enter a world of desolate imagination, rhizomatic beauty, and...
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  • The Seven Queens The Seven Queens
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    The Seven Queens

    There is much in these stories that our modern mindsets will find hard to accept. But having struggled with this myself, I believe that these folktales are timeless for a reason; they hold a mirror to the one thing that has not changed over the centuries...
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  • Crossing the Owl's Bridge Crossing the Owl's Bridge
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    Crossing the Owl's Bridge

    Crossing the Owl's Bridge: A Guide for Grieving People Who Still Love, by Kim Bateman, was named a finalist in the self-help (non-fiction) category of the 2017 Next Generation Indie Book Awards (NGIBA).Crossing the Owl's Bridge uses the wisdom of...
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  • Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part 1 Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part 1
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    Don Quixote of the Mancha, Part 1

    Originally published between 1909 and 1917 under the name "Harvard Classics," this stupendous 51-volume set-a collection of the greatest writings from literature, philosophy, history, and mythology-was assembled by American academic CHARLES WILLIAM ELIOT...
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  • Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children
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    Heroes; or, Greek Fairy Tales for my Children

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore,...
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Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)