Folklore, Myths & Legends
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Native Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£14.99| /Embark on a journey into the spirit world of First Nations peoples with some of the most intriguing stories of ghost spirits in nature and the unde...
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Nga Waka o Nehera
Oratia Books£34.99| /Nga Waka o Nehera is the essential reference work to the traditions of Maori canoes that voyaged to New Zealand including lists of the waka, name...
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Numbers of the Gods
Progressive Press (US)£19.99| /A mind-boggling investigation into ancient wisdom -- and the nature of the universe. Monuments like the Pyramids or Stonehenge make us wonder: Were...
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Old Myths & New Approaches
Monash University Publishing£33.99| /Old Myths and New Approaches: Interpreting Ancient Religious Sites in Southeast Asia brings together recent research by leading experts on Southeas...
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On the Primaeval Ocean
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£71.99| /The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...
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Ontario Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Barbara Smith's second collection of tales of the paranormal in Ontario. Meet the phantom who wanders the halls of a Brockville home dressed in alo...
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Osnabrücker Jahrbuch Frieden und Wissenschaft XVIII / 2011
V & R Unipress GmbH£26.99| /Our society is increasingly aware of collective risks as threats to peace. After the multiple catastrophe in Fukushima, a broad parliamentary major...
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Pagan Heart of the West Embodying Ancient Beliefs and Practices from Antiquity to the Present
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£25.00| /In this second volume, Pagan Heart focuses on the veneration of nature -- flora, fauna, elements, celestial bodies -- and on rituals of the season...
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Power of Song
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£41.99| /This book shows how the people of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania confronted a military superpower and achieved independence in the Baltic "Singing ...
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Raven and the First People
Eschia Books Inc (CA)£13.99| /Below the mist-shrouded mountains of the West Coast lie the stories of how we came to be. It is through the myths of the people who have lived with...
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Romantic Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Love can move mountains and overcome all obstacles. But can it survive death? As this new collection shows, love beyond the grave is often more pow...
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Scary Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /A fun collection of twisted stories just perfect for reading aloud. Here are a few examples: Tempted by an alluring payoff, a teenager delivers a l...
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Seeking Balance
Caitlin Press (CA)£18.99| /Many Canadians say that British Columbia is the zaniest political province. It's too diverse, too polarised -- geographically, demographically and ...
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Seven Sisters of the Pleiades
Spinifex Press£19.95| /The seven sisters of the Pleiades are known throughout the world and appear again and again in stories from many cultures. Beginning with her grand...
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Shape-Shifters & their stories
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /Shape-shifting is a common theme in mythology, folklore, and fairy tales. In its broadest sense, shape-shifting occurs when a being (usually human)...
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Sky Stories
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US)£66.99| /Ptak has woven together ancient myths and stories of modern astronomy in this book. He looks at several constellations tying to each of the old sto...
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Skywoman
Clear Light Publishers (US)£20.99| /When Skywoman falls from the upper world, the birds and animals living in the watery place below must catch her and create ground on which she can ...
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Specimens of Bushmen Folklore
Daimon Verlag (CH)£68.99| /This new edition of the long-out-of print classic collection of Bushman tales provides a fascinating look into the life of these little-known peopl...
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St Suniti & the Dragon
Spinifex Press£10.95| /This is an extended fable. The central theme, of how to live decently and honourably in a cruel and irrational world, is explored through related t...
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Talking Tools
CCI Press£50.99| /Talking Tools: Faces of Aboriginal Oral Tradition in Contemporary Society explores the power of oral tradition in Aboriginal society as a foundatio...
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The Enchanted Valley
Foliate Head Press£9.99| /Driving along the only road through the Llanthony Valley is a joy; the landscape never disappoints. But to experience the Valley properly, one must...
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The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£26.99| /In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. ...
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The Golden Age of Folk and Fairy Tales
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£70.99| /In the late 18th and early 19th centuries, attitudes toward history and national identity fostered a romantic rediscovery of folk and fairy tales. ...
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The Pagan Heart of the West
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£25.00| /The Pagan Heart of the West challenges current academic notions that paganism died when Christianization occurred; that the transition from paganis...
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The Pagan Heart of the West
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£28.00| /In this fifth and final volume, we consider the persistence and transformation of pagan traditions in philosophy and the arts. This final volume al...
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The White Snake and Her Son
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£16.99| /A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, ...
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The White Snake and Her Son
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc (US)£44.99| /A cornerstone of Chinese popular culture, the legend of the White Snake--the admirable demon who loves her victim--has been continually rewritten, ...
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Time Before Deception
Clear Light Publishers (US)£25.99| /What was the real significance of "war paint", of the rituals of shamans, of the mysterious communion with animals, plants, mountains, and wild wat...
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Timeless Travels
Gefen Publishing House (IS)£25.99| /Who is today's American Jew? Joseph Rotenberg styles himself as a modern-day maggid (traditional Jewish storyteller), weaving tales from the everyd...
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Tracking Doctor Lonecloud
Goose Lane Editions£15.99| /Tracking Dr. Lonecloud: Showman to Legend Keeper, by Ruth Whitehead, Nova Scotia Museum ethnologist, is a book that includes the memoir of Jerry Lo...
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Victorian Ghost Stories
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /The Victorian era was a golden age of the paranormal. Famous writers, such as Charles Dickens and Edgar Allan Poe, created fantastic tales that rem...
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Weird Canadian Traditions and Superstitions
Blue Bike Books (CA)£14.99| /Don't walk under ladders! Place a star on the top of your Christmas tree. Superstitions and traditions often govern how we participate in life. But...
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Werewolves
Schiffer£15.99| /Enter the world of the werewolf, where superstition abounds and shape shifting is possible! Find out what to do if you or a friend turns into a wer...
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Werewolves and Shapeshifters
Ghost House Publishing (CA)£11.99| /Darren Zenko takes us on a cruise around the alternative universe of shapeshifters. Discover the pink river dolphins of Amazonia, said to turn into...
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Witch-Hunt & Conspiracy
Monash University Publishing£26.99| /This book brings unique insight and prize-winning analysis to an extraordinary story - that of a witch-hunt and ninja craze that swept a region of ...
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