British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881)
10 best books like British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881) (Wirt Sikes): Gods and Fighting Men: The Story of the Tuatha De Danaan and the Fianna of Ireland, The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries, The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore, The Science of Fairy Tales: an Enquiry Into Fairy Mythology, Witches, Werewolves, and Fairies: Shapeshifters and Astral Doubles in the Middle Ages, Dwarfs, More Celtic Fairy Tales, The Winter Child, Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
| Author | Lady Augusta Gregory |
| ISBN | 0901072370 |
It's always weird to read a book that's essentially a twice-over translation. First the original author translated the myths to English, and that was over a hundred years ago... and then the Polish translator, while trying to keep the archaic and mythical sound of the original, translated it into Polish......
| Author | W.Y. Evans-Wentz |
| ISBN | 1564147088 |
When I lived in a cabin in Big Sur, I holed up with a copy of Fairy-Faith. It awakened me to the reality of subtle beings indwelling the immense silence of the redwood forests.
Evans-Wenz, who was a friend of Yeats, takes a half-poetic, half-anthropological approach. The most exciting passages...
| Author | Katharine M. Briggs |
| ISBN | 0394502485 |
A book on the themes in northern European -- British, German, Scandinavian -- folklore, with some bits roving farther afield on some themes.
Each chapter has a theme -- passage of time in Fairy, slower or (less typically) faster -- the fairies' moral views (and double standards) on lying and...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0486436578 |
Best known for his poetry, William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was also a dedicated exponent of Irish folklore. Yeats took a particular interest in the tales' mythic and magical roots. The Celtic Twilight ventures into the eerie and puckish world of fairies, ghosts, and spirits. "This handful of dreams,"...
| Author | Edwin Sidney Hartland |
Book Description:
"A fairy (also fey or fae or faerie; collectively, wee folk, good folk, people of peace, and other euphemisms) is the name given to an alleged metaphysical spirit or supernatural being.
The fairy is based on the fae of medieval Western European (Old French) folklore...
| Author | Claude Lecouteux |
| ISBN | 0892810963 |
Reveals the true nature of medieval belief in the Double of the Soul
• Demonstrates the survival of a pagan belief that each individual owns three souls, including a double that can journey outside the physical body
• Explains the nature of death and the Other World hidden beneath...
| Author | Tim Appenzeller |
| ISBN | 0809452243 |
This book is similar in appearance, style, and presentation to other volumes in the Time-Life Enchanted World series, but contains content focusing on yet another creature of myth and fantasy: the dwarf. As with other Enchanted World volumes, "Dwarfs" contains numerous color illustrations that...
| Author | Joseph Jacobs |
| ISBN | 1605061999 |
More Celtic Fairy Tales is part of a series written by the Australian born folklorist Joseph Jacobs. In this book feature over two dozen stories taken from popular oral tradition and united with John D. Batten's black and white drawings, full of movement and energy. Many of the earliest children's books,...
| Author | Wendy Froud |
| ISBN | 0743202341 |
Carefully combing his ears and tail and wearing his finest red felt boots, a furry young faery named Sneezle prepares for the Midwinter festival in Old Oak Wood -- the oldest faery court in the British Isles. All the denizens of the wood have gathered for this grand winter holiday...but this year something...
Legends of the Fire Spirits: Jinn and Genies from Arabia to Zanzibar
| Author | Robert W. Lebling |
| ISBN | 1582436320 |
When Westerners think of a genie, the first image that comes to mind may be Barbara Eden in her pink harem pants or the illuminated blue buffoon from the animated Disney film Aladdin. But to the people of the Arab and Islamic worlds, the picture is dramatically different. Legends of the Fire Spirits looks...
| Author | Proinsias Mac Cana |
| ISBN | 0600006476 |
Okay, I am slightly disappointed in this book. I was hoping for a little bit more of the legends, epics and Sagas themselves. Not a scholarly, Joseph Campbellesqe history/comparative mythology type book.
Granted, finding one of those written in Modern English is quite difficult and about...
| Author | Bob Curran |
| ISBN | 0811822761 |
What is your best defense against a phosphorescent land sheerie? Can you really find contentment with a wealthy merrow wife? The answers are disclosed at last in A Field Guide to Irish Fairies, the first and only such guide available. Expertly researched and compiled by an authority on the subject,...
Greek and Roman Ghost Stories
| Author | Lacy Collison-Morley |
There is something highly amusing about reading old books. This is free for the Kindle, and it should be noted that there does seem to be some formatting problems.
The book is highly enjoyable, detailing both anicent ghost stories as well as ancient beliefs and rites concerning ghosts. I have...
| Author | Sabine Baring-Gould |
| ISBN | 1859580726 |
Sabine Baring-Gould’s Book of Werewolves (which was recommended to me by several people here) was originally published in 1865. Baring-Gould treats the phenomenon of the werewolf as a psychological aberration, as essentially a delusional state. He also relates it to cannibalism, and seems to...
Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle
There’s a lil bit of good folklore in there but u have to mine it out from barely intelligible eye dialect and a hefty dose of sexism.
Eg: “Whin he seen the widdys an’ the other wimmin wid thim shtravigerin’ through the strate on the way to the coort an’ heard the phillaloo they were afther...
Real Wolfmen: True Encounters in Modern America
| Author | Linda S. Godfrey |
| ISBN | 1585429082 |
What’s hiding in the woods? Here is the definitive account of today’s nationwide sightings of upright, canine creatures – which resemble traditional werewolves – and a thorough exploration of the nature and possible origins of the mysterious beast.
“She has the ability...
The Cryptopedia: A Dictionary of the Weird, Strange, and Downright Bizarre
| Author | Jonathan Maberry |
| ISBN | 0806528192 |
After reading Zombie CSU by Jonathan Maberry I was hooked. I had to read more of his works. I managed to find this one tucked away on the bottom shelf in a Books A Million collecting dust. Score. I ran home fired up a smoke and grabbed a beverage went out on the back porch and started reading. This one is gold...
| Author | Mark Allan Gunnells |
I'd like to give this story about 9 stars!!
Excellently written, finely-detailed, good locale staging, with a keen eye for the horrific as a subtle leading up to the big noise, and that gentle contrast of “everything’s all right” propaganda with the concerns, anxieties, and fears...
The Giza Power Plant: Technologies of Ancient Egypt
| Author | Christopher Dunn |
| ISBN | 1879181509 |
Did a highly advanced civilization exist in prehistory? Is the Giza Pyramid a remnant of their technology? Then, what was the power source that fueled such a civilization? The technology of harmonic resonance, claims renowned master craftsman and engineer Christopher Dunn. In a brilliant piece...
Three Books of Occult Philosophy or Magic: Natural Magic
In the last half of 1509 and the first months of 1510, Cornelius Agrippa, known in his day as a Magician, gathered together all the Mystic lore he had obtained by the energy and ardor of youth and compiled it into the elaborate system of Magic, in three books, known as Occult Philosophy, the first book of...
The Pyramids & the Pentagon: The Government's Top Secret Pursuit of Mystical Relics, Ancient Astronauts & Lost Civilizations
| Author | Nick Redfern |
| ISBN | 1601632061 |
The Pyramids and the Pentagonis a detailed study of how and why government agencies have, for decades, taken a clandestine and profound interest in numerous archeological, historical, and religious puzzles.
Focusing primarily upon the classified work of the U.S. Government, The Pyramids...
