The Lore of the Unicorn
10 best books like The Lore of the Unicorn (Odell Shepard): Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, The Unicorn, De Historia Et Veritate Unicornis/on the History and Truth of the Unicorn, A Dictionary of Northern Mythology, The Vanishing People: Fairy Lore and Legends, Arab Folktales, Irish Folk Tales, A Mermaid's Tale: A Personal Search for Love and Lore, Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth, Magical Beasts
Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion
| Author | Judy Corbett |
| ISBN | 0091897319 |
When Judy Corbett caught sight of a great stone mansion in the craggy wilds of north Wales, she had little idea of the adventure on which she was about to embark. She and her husband, Peter, had long dreamed of buying an old ruin and escaping the pace and excesses of modern life. But it was only when they had...
| Author | Nancy Hathaway |
| ISBN | 0517449021 |
What is this elusive creature with a horn growing from its forehead? Who is this animal with the power to neutralize poison, a fatal attraction to maidens, and the mythic ability to enrich the cultures of Asia, Arabia, and Europe? Of all the legendary animals of art, folklore, and literature, the unicorn...
| Author | Michael Green |
| ISBN | 0894712063 |
I bought this book new back in the early 80's, and have read it a few times since then. I mostly enjoy the story, even if it does seem a bit simplistic to me these days. How many times have we seen the device of 'I found this manuscript and translated it in order to share its secrets with the world'? Michael Green...
A Dictionary of Northern Mythology
| Author | Rudolf Simek |
| ISBN | 0859915131 |
For two and a half thousand years, from 1500 BC to AD 1000, a culture as significant as the classical civilisation of the Mediterranean world settled an immense area in northern Europe that stretched from Iceland to the Black Sea. But the sources of our knowledge about these societies are relatively...
| 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 | Inea Bushnaq |
| ISBN | 0394751795 |
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
Robust and funny, sorrowful and heroic, this collection of 125 lively tales tells the story of Ireland. Spanning the centuries from the first wars of the ancient Irish kings through the Celtic Renaissance of Yeats to our own time, they are set in cities, villages, fields and forestsfrom the wild Gaelic...
| Author | Amanda Adams |
| ISBN | 1553651170 |
Elusive, seductive, otherworldly, the mermaid is one of the most resonant of female archetypes, persisting across cultures and eras. In this singular study, Amanda Adams uses poetic language and invokes a wide range of representations and disciplines — from literature, poetry, and mythology...
Forests of the Vampires: Slavic Myth
| Author | Charles Phillips |
| ISBN | 0705436136 |
This book is a good introduction to Slavic myth, even though the title "Slavic myth" is a bit misleading. The book is very Russo-centric, which sometimes seems unavoidable. The book is valuable more for its entertainment value than for its academic merit, but it provides a basic, quick-and-dirty history...
| Author | Ellen Galford |
| ISBN | 0809452294 |
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Magical Beasts is the second book in the Enchanted World Series that I've read recently. The book is split into three sections/chapters and covers many different beasts and...
| Author | Tristram Potter Coffin |
I picked this up by chance in a local market and I'm deeply thrilled that I did.
large range of Fairy legends essentially condensed into a flow of text. Seems to draw mainly from pre-existing collections.
In terms of layout and art - a really fantastic book. Pulls from the history of 19th...
| Author | Eddie Lenihan |
| ISBN | 0717136590 |
The Other Crowd', 'The Good People', 'The Wee Folk' and 'Them' are a few of the names given to the fairies by people in Ireland. Honoured for their gifts and feared for their wrath, the fairies remind us to respect both the world we live in and forces we cannot see.
In Meeting the Other Crowd, Eddie...
| Author | Barbara C. Sproul |
| ISBN | 0060675012 |
This was a big DID NOT FINISH for me. I love mythology, and I've been trying to broaden my understanding of it. I picked up this book hoping to get a taste of various mythologies from the perspective of each people's creation myth. What I got was a lot of long-winded, rambling, dry overviews.
I didn't...
| 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 | Diane Tong |
| ISBN | 0156379899 |
Stretching back many ages to the Gypsies' origins in India, maintained throughout their dispersion over six continents and centuries of persecution, enslavement, and invisibility, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast and diverse treasure of folktales. That tradition continues vigorously...
| Author | J.E. Zimmerman |
| ISBN | 0553257765 |
"A knowledge of classical mythology is indispensable in understanding and appreciating much of the great literature, sculpture, and painting of both the ancients and the moderns. Unless we know the marvelous stories of the deities and heroes of the ancients, their great literature and art as much...
| Author | Alfred Perceval Graves |
| ISBN | 1859580173 |
Welcome to a world of wild banshees, leprechauns, mermaids, battle-tested kings, churchyard demons, and treasure-guarding cats. This is the world of the Irish fairy tale, a magical realm kept alive by generations of storytellers and their avid listeners. As Alfred Perceval Graves, author of the...
Dragons and Unicorns: A Natural History
| Author | Paul A. Johnsgard |
| ISBN | 0312084994 |
Is it generally safe to walk by dragon weyrs on sunny days? Do dragons really lay golden eggs? Do dragon teeth have any medicinal value? And what about unicorns: Do some rare ones have two horns, and when aren't unicorns white? What is a unicorn "sneeze call," and what exactly is the best way to capture a...
Exploring the World of the Druids
| Author | Miranda Aldhouse-Green |
In this authoritative account, Miranda Green unravels the truth about the Druids. Examining the archaeological evidence, Classical commentaries and early Welsh and Irish myths, she shows that the Druids were fully integrated into Celtic societyfulfilling varied and necessary roles, both secular...
Transformations of Myth Through Time
| Author | Joseph Campbell |
| ISBN | 0060964634 |
First, I would like to make it clear that I did enjoy this book. The essays were both interesting, and informative - they gave a lot of food for thought. They were taken from a documentary (if I'm not mistaken, Mythos I and Mythos II?) shown on PBS some years ago. This book contained a good deal of artwork and...
Essence and Alchemy: A Natural History of Perfume
| Author | Mandy Aftel |
| ISBN | 1586857029 |
Someone saw me reading this book, and the comment was, "But you don't even like perfumes!"
That's partly true. I don't like synthetic perfumes. I don't like being bombarded by someone's overzealous application of scent. I don't like synthetic fragrance. (Every time someone tells me their...
Individuation in Fairy Tales
| Author | Marie-Louise von Franz |
| ISBN | 1570626138 |
With a text revised and corrected by the author, this definitive edition of Individuation in Fairy Tales is rich with insights from religion, literature, and myth. Dr. von Franz focuses on the symbolism of the bird motif in six fairy tales of Europe and Asia: "The White Parrot" (Spain), "The Bath Bagerd"...
The Universal Myths: Heroes, Gods, Tricksters and Others
| Author | Alexander Eliot |
| ISBN | 0452010276 |
Crossing the boundaries of time, region, and culture, universal myths have provided inspiration and guidance for countless generations--laying a foundation for the religious, social, and political heritage of nations and peoples since the beginning of time. Here is a rich and absorbing survey...
