Myths and Legends of the Sioux
10 best books like Myths and Legends of the Sioux (Marie L. McLaughlin): American Fairy Tales, Indian Fairy Tales, Old Indian Legends, Popular Tales from the Norse, Folk-Lore and Legends Scotland, Eskimo Folk-Tales, Welsh Fairy Tales, British Goblins: Welsh Folk Lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions (1881), Myths & Legends of the British Isles, Tales of a Korean Grandmother: 32 Traditional Tales from Korea
| 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...
Stories included are:
The Lion and the Crane
How the Raja's Son Won the Princess Labam
The Lambikin
Punchkin
The Broken Pot
The Magic Fiddle
The Cruel Crane Outwitted
Loving Laili
The Tiger, the Brahman and the Jackel
The Soothsayer's Son
Harisaman
The...
| Author | Zitkála-Šá |
| ISBN | 0803299036 |
Early in the twentieth century, a Sioux woman named Zitkala-Ša published these fourteen Native legends that she had learned during her own childhood on the Yankton Reservation. Her writing talent, developed during her education back east, was put to good use in recording from oral tradition the...
| 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...
I chose to read "The Fisherman and the Merman" folk-story out of this book. Like many other folk-stories this was at times hard to understand what was going on and was required to be read more than once. This story showed the very dark side that these types of stories can posses. This story says things like,...
THESE stories were collected in various parts of Greenland, taken down from the lips of the Eskimo story-tellers themselves, by Knud Rasmussen, the Danish explorer. No man is better qualified to tell the story of Greenland, or the stories of its people. Knud Rasmussen is himself partly of Eskimo...
| Author | William Elliot Griffis |
| ISBN | 1151290572 |
The author of this retold collection of Welsh fairy tales was an American of Welsh ancestry. In his introduction he pointedly gives thanks to 'those inheritances from the world of imagination, for which the Cymric Land was famous, even before the days of either Anglo-Saxon or Norman.'
Griffis...
1881. In a certain sense Wales may be spoken of as the cradle of fairy legend. It is not now disputed that from the Welsh were borrowed many of the first subjects of composition in the literature of all the cultivated peoples of Europe. In the ground it covers, while this volume deals especially with Wales,...
| Author | Richard Barber |
| ISBN | 1843830396 |
The British Isles have a long tradition of tales of gods, heroes and marvels, hinting at a mythology once as relevant to the races which settled the islands as the Greek and Roman gods were to the classical world. The tales drawn together in this book, from a wide range of medieval sources, span the centuries...
| Author | Frances Carpenter |
| ISBN | 0804810435 |
This multicultural children's book presents classic Korean fairy tales and other folk stories—providing a delightful look into a rich literary culture.
The Korean people possess a folklore tradition as colorful and captivating as any in the world, but the stories themselves still are...
| Author | Kent Nerburn |
| ISBN | 0931432782 |
We recognize the philosophy of the original Americans as coming from the earth we walk on, from those who preceded us. As we read the wisdom of these peoples, it is possible to feel a reconnection with our land and ourselves. This beautiful collection of the best of Native American wisdom features the...
The Religion of the Ancient Celts
| Author | John Arnott MacCulloch |
The Pros and Cons of the Book:
The Cons:
1. The book was not intended for the beginner. Most of the time the author assumes you know what and who he is talking about.
2. It was written at an early stage when not a lot of archeological sites were found about the Celts.
3. Some of the information...
| 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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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...
| Author | Nigel Barley |
| ISBN | 0670807044 |
Nigel Barley described his first research visit to the Dowayo of northern Cameroon in The Innocent Anthropologist. The Dowayo were (and hopefully still are) a pagan tribe in a mountainous region of the country whose geography sheltered them to some extent from the slave raids of the Muslim Fulani people...
Daughters of Copper Woman
Since its first publication in 1981, Daughters of Copper Woman has become an underground classic, selling over 200,000 copies. Now comes a new edition that includes many pieces cut from the original as well as fresh material added by the author. Here finally, after twenty-two years of gathering dust,...
| Author | Su Tong |
| ISBN | 1841959049 |
Knopf Canada welcomes one of China’s most acclaimed and bestselling writers–author of Raise the Red Lantern–to the list with a fascinating retelling of a magical story–already an international bestseller in China and Europe. Through Binu’s extraordinary story, Su Tong illuminates...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1892058065 |
A collection of stories written and read by Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy Award-winning author Neil Gaiman:
A Writer’s Prayer "was written shortly before I began American Gods. I knew the first two verses when I began it, and the conclusion was there when I reached it. This is why I love writing."
Harlequin...
Lion's Honey: The Myth of Samson
| Author | David Grossman |
| ISBN | 1841957429 |
Israel's most lauded contemporary writer retells the myth of Samson, one of the most tempestuous, charismatic, and colorful characters in the Hebrew Bible. There are few other Bible stories with so much drama and action, narrative fireworks and raw emotion, as we find in the tale of Samson: the battle...
