Eskimo Folk-Tales
10 best books like Eskimo Folk-Tales (Knud Rasmussen): D'Aulaires' Book of Trolls, The Saga of the Jómsvíkings, Flower Fables, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, Mythologies, Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian, What is Coming? A Forecast of Things after the War, Tales of Old Japan: Folklore, Fairy Tales, Ghost Stories and Legends of the Samurai, Fairy Tales from the German Forests
| Author | Ingri d'Aulaire |
| ISBN | 1590172175 |
In this spectacular follow-up to their beloved Book of Norse Myths, the husband-and-wife team of Ingri and Edgar Parin d'Aulaire explore the uncanny reaches of Norse mythology, an enchanted night-world populated by trolls of all kinds--mountain trolls, forest trolls, trolls who live underwater...
The Saga of the Jómsvíkings
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 0292776233 |
In A.D. 986, Earl Hakon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjorunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts of the...
| Author | Louisa May Alcott |
| ISBN | 1930142021 |
Flower Fables by Louisa May Alcott Flower Fables contains wildly imaginative stories that grew out of Alcott's experience as a storyteller to the children of her Concord, Connecticut, neighbors. Through these enticing encounters with fairies, elves, and animals, the author creates a foundation...
Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriquenas
| Author | Aurora Levins Morales |
| ISBN | 0896086445 |
Full of medical folklore and healing tales, Remedios presents the history of the many women—and cultures—who have met at the crossroads of the islands of Puerto Rico. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago, Aurora Levins Morales takes readers on a journey...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
William Elliot Griffis, D.D., L.H. D. (1843-1928) was an American orientalist, author and Congregational preacher. In September 1870 Griffis was invited to Japan for the purpose of organizing schools along Western lines. He prepared the New Japan Series of reading and spelling books and primers...
| Author | W.B. Yeats |
| ISBN | 0684826216 |
Banshees and faeries, demons and curses, village ghosts and mystic poets work their Gaelic magic in this enthralling collection of supernatural tales from the pen of William Butler Yeats. Based on Irish country beliefs, traditions, and folk tales, the stories were first published at the height of...
| Author | Charles John Tibbits |
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H G Wells, the prominent British writer of early 20th Century, turns out to become a prophet in this book, prophesying and forecasting the future of Great Britain and other countries that are just about to enter into the Second World War.
This book comes out just at the time when the Allied Forces of...
| Author | Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford |
| ISBN | 0486440621 |
The member of a distinguished British literary family, A. B. Mitford traveled widely with his parents as a youth and lived in various European countries. From 1866-70, he served as an attaché with the British legation at Edo (Tokyo) — one of the first foreign diplomats to do so. During his brief stay...
[...] He saw that it was the mouth of the tunnel, and glancing up he saw the giant fir-tree under which he had been sleeping with outstretched arms above him in the light of the moon. "Well-I never! what a dunderhead I am!" he said to himself-"fancy sleeping like that, why such a thing has never happened to...
| Author | Iona Opie |
| ISBN | 0195202198 |
This volume contains twenty-four of the best known fairy tales in the English language, presented here in the exact words of their first English publication or of the earliest surviving text. Including "Sleeping Beauty," "Bluebeard," "Cinderella," "Thumbelina," and "Hansel and Gretel," as well...
This book has wonderful tales and equally wonderful artwork by John Bauer. Three tales stand out, "The Magician's Cape", "The Queen," and "The Changelings". The stories include encounters with trolls and feature a good mixture of heros and heroines.
It should be noted, however, that the...
| Author | Gary Snyder |
| ISBN | 0811206866 |
Snyder's book-length poem can be called mythopoeia; creating modern myth based upon modern culture and history. Snyder's previous work and environmental concerns form the background of his mythic poem. The three religions, Buddhism, Christianity, and Judaism reflect his beliefs in his work....
| Author | William Matthew Flinders Petrie |
Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie FRS, known as Flinders Petrie, was an English Egyptologist and a pioneer of systematic methodology in archaeology. He held the first chair of Egyptology in the United Kingdom, and excavated at many of the most important archaeological sites in Egypt, such as Naukratis,...
As I knew little about Buddhism, I would say this book was a good resource. That being said, I do not agree with the religion having understood what was presented. It appears to be a religion founded on the sole urge to overcome ignorance, which in itself is good, but not logical. Not everyone is capable...
The Superstitions of Witchcraft
Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore
| Author | William Ralston Shedden Ralston |
I now see where so much from the Winternight trilogy came from! However, I have serious issues with the unfortunate formatting and layout of this book. Stories were told in weird conglomerations - oh, in another version instead it goes like THIS etc. - and there weren't good paragraphing and indentations...
Atlantis: The Antediluvian World
| Author | Ignatius L. Donnelly |
| ISBN | 0486233715 |
The great classic of Atlantis, this book more than any other established the existence of this lost continent for the modern world. Attracting hundreds of thousands of readers and stimulating vast debate, it influenced generations of people including countless scientists who went on to do serious...
| Author | George Bird Grinnell |
This book contains the stories of the Blackfeet people, as retold by George Grinnell. Grinnell was a leader in the creation of Glacier National Park and wrote prolifically about Blackfeet culture. That said, this is a retelling interpreted by him...I'm interested in learning more. What comes through...
Traditions Of The North American Indians, Vol. 1 (Of 3)
| Author | James Athearn Jones |
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Breaking the Magic Spell: Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
| Author | Jack D. Zipes |
| ISBN | 0813190304 |
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political...
Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms and Superstitions of Ireland
| Author | Jane Francesca Wilde |
| ISBN | 1428644520 |
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, you will see the original copyright references,...
Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft
In ill health following a stroke, Sir Walter Scott wrote Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft at the behest of his son-in-law, J. G. Lockhart, who worked for a publishing firm. The book proved popular and Scott was paid six hundred pounds, which he desperately needed (despite his success as a novelist,...
The Babylonian Legends of the Creation and the Fight Between Bel and the Dragon
The Babylonian Legends of Creation (1921) was an awesome follow-up to E.A. Wallis Budge's previous short book on the subject of the Great Flood and the Epic of Gilgamish called The Babylonian Story of the Deluge(1920). I don't know if somehow my disgruntlement with the lack of maps and illustrations...
