A Rendezvous Reader: Tall, Tangled, and True Tales of the by James H. Maguire, Peter Wild, Donald A. Barclay

Mythical Creatures (Mysteries, Legends, and Unexplained Phenomena)

Legends and myths are jam-packed with very unlikely creatures and weird beasts, from the half-human, half-lion sphinx of historical Egypt to fire-breathing dragons to mermaids within the oceans. This paintings describes a few of the recognized beasts of delusion and legend and appears at their attainable origins whereas recounting the stories that experience saved them recognized for millennia.

Singing of Birth and Death: Texts in Performance

Research of cultural folklore and songs in southern India. an exceptional hardcover replica with brilliant gilt lettering at the backbone. Tight binding. reliable forums. fresh, unmarked, pages. excellent jacket in detachable mylar; pale backbone. no longer ex-library. listed with bibliography and bankruptcy notes. 263pgs. Shipped Weight: lower than 1 kilogram.

Usable Pasts: Traditions and Group Expressions in North America

In Usable Pasts, fourteen authors learn the manipulation of conventional expressions between a number of teams from the U.S. and Canada: the advance of a pictorial type through Navajo weavers in keeping with investors, Mexican American responses to the appropriation of conventional meals by means of Anglos, the expressive sorts of verbal exchange that engender and maintain a feeling of group in an African American women's social membership and between aged Yiddish folksingers in Miami seashore, the incorporation of mass media photos into the "C&Ts" (customs and traditions) of a Boy Scout troop, the altering that means in their defining Exodus-like migration to Mormons, Newfoundlanders' appropriation during the rum-drinking ritual referred to as the Schreech-In of outsiders' stereotypes, outsiders' imposition of the once-despised lobster because the logo of Maine, the competition over Texas's heroic Alamo legend and its departures from ancient truth, and the way yellow ribbons have been remodeled from a picture in a pop track to a countrywide image of "resolve.

Motif-index of medieval Spanish folk narratives

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