Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland
10 best books like Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland (W.W. Gibbings): American Fairy Tales, Final Moments: Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying, Traditional Irish Fairy Tales, Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks, Japanese Fairy Tales, The Heroes, or, Greek Fairy Tales for My Children, Myths and Legends of China, Popular Tales from the Norse, Celtic Tales, Told to the Children, Folk-Lore and Legends; Scandinavian
| Author | L. Frank Baum |
| ISBN | 0486236439 |
In Chicago, an ordinary key unlocks a magical trunk packed with robbers and a pie. In Boston, five magical bon-bons make an ordinary senator, an ordinary professor, an ordinary girl and her ordinary parents do the most extraordinary things! A young cowboy lassoes Father Time; the dummy in Mr. Floman's...
Final Moments: Nurses' Stories about Death and Dying
| Author | Deborah Witt Sherman |
| ISBN | 1427798230 |
What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine? What lessons can we learn from their experiences? Twenty-five nurses--from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care--tell about their experiences with death. Hear from...
| Author | James Stephens |
| ISBN | 0486291669 |
'In truth we do not go to Faery, we become faery, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.'
A good collection, very funny and with that uniquely Irish feel to it. And I should say that this is not so much a collection of Irish fairy tales as a collection of Irish sagas,...
| 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 | Yei Theodora Ozaki |
| ISBN | 4805308818 |
Things I learnt from Japanese Fairy Tales
-Never trust a monkey.
-Never trust a stepmother.
-Never trust a stepmother with your monkey.
-Almost every boy in Japan is named Taro, or a variant of that name: Kintaro, Urashima Taro, Momotaro...
-If an old man wants to wrestle your...
"I am Pallas Athena; and I know the thoughts of all men's hearts, and discern their manhood or their baseness. And from the souls of clay I turn away, and they are blessed, but not by me. They fatten at ease, like sheep in the pasture, and eat what they did not sow, like oxen in the stall. They grow and spread,...
Edit: Jan.25
I've decided to change my original rating of 2 stars to 1.
I tried to read this again after downloading another free ebook of Chinese myths from the iBook store called The Classic of Mountains and Seas - Shan Hai Jing. The earliest accounts of some of the stories found in TCoMaS...
| Author | George Webbe Dasent |
Translated from Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and Jørgen Engebretsen Moe's collection. You may have heard of this particular collection; J.R.R. Tolkien cites it in "On Fairy-Stories." And you definitely know one tale: "The Three Billy-Goats Gruff."
There are a lot more here. Has some animal...
Title
Celtic Tales Told to the Children: The Starry-Eyed Deirdre
Author
Louey Chisholm
Illustrator
Catherine Cameron
Category
Traditional and ICDL
Copyright Date
1910
Estimate of age level of interest
Adult
Estimate...
| Author | Charles John Tibbits |
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[...] 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...
A young woman with a turbulent past discovers a secret world under New York City in the 1980s. Here there be magic, and monsters After surviving a brutal attack, Mireya Rodriguez must leave the past to the past, and start living again. A seemingly chance encounter with a man named Jonathan Mellon leads...
The Greek philosopher Socrates lived by the tenet that the path to truth was built on questions. When conversing with his students and followers he sought to reach the foundations of their views, asking questions until he found contradictions that exposed faults in their logic. This process became...
Joseph Jacobs complained in the 19th century, "What Perrault began, the Grimms completed." All the fairy tales the children knew were French or German in origin. He tried to amend it, and so we have this and More English Fairy Tales.
You will indeed recognize a few, most likely. "The Three Bears"...
| Author | Marie L. McLaughlin |
Marie L. McLaughlin, in writing Myths and Legends of the Sioux, aimed to create a written account of the many oral myths and legends that have been passed down by the Sioux people for hundreds of years, in order to guard against their loss to history.
Containing nearly 40 tales, McLaughlin has...
A fascinating treatise on the study of modern mythology the construction of myths so soon after an event. Andrew Lang was the foremost scholar in folklore and mythology of his time. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly...
| Author | William Hope Hodgson |
| ISBN | 1421925818 |
"The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human aspect, and perhaps the spirits of bygone buccaneers) that besiege it and finally drag it down to an unknown fate. With its command of maritime knowledge, and its...
The Secret Rose: Love Poems by W.B. Yeats
Četla jsem výtisk z edice Atlantis, kde byly ještě tři krátké povídky Rosa Alchemica - ty mě příliš nezaujaly. Hvězdičky se vztahují pouze na Tajemnou růži. Tu tvoří několik krátkých povídek inspirovaných irskými legendami, mystikou, romantikou a trochou křesťanské...
Let's Go Europe 2011: The Student Travel Guide
| Author | Harvard Student Agencies Inc. |
From Portugal to the Ukraine, from Norway down to Greece, Europe is a lot to take on. Luckily, the student adventurers behind Let’s Go Europe 2011 think you can handle it — with a little help. Whether you’re whipping through London, Barcelona, and Prague in five days or spending a leisurely year...
| Author | Daron D. Fraley |
| ISBN | 1935546112 |
Three tribes are at war on the planet Gan, unaware that the sign of Christ's birth on an unknown world - Earth - is about to appear in the heavens. During a bloody skirmish with Gideonite troops, Jonathan of Daniel spares Pekah, a young enemy soldier, gaining his trust forever. These two distant brothers...
Passions explode against a backdrop of murder.
Randall Austin is desperate to escape the unhappy memories of a tragic childhood and a failed relationship. She leaves New York behind to make a new life for herself in the island community of Key Biscayne, off the southern coast of Florida, just...
Short Stories Old and New
Alphonso Smith (28 May 1864 - 13 June 1924) was an American Professor of English, college dean, philologist, and folklorist. Professor Smith's collected and edited short stories in this title is a must read for anyone interested in literature. His chosen stories in this volume are: 1. Esther - from...
| Author | G.A. Henty |
| ISBN | 1426421214 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
