The first scholarly history of British and Irish fairies in over half a century. Expanded with a fairy map of Britain and a survey of the most recent sightings claimed by twenty-first century Brits.
Ritual, Text, and Authority Among Ukraine's Hutsuls
The Stark Carpathians: Ritual, Text, and Authority Among Ukraine's Hutsuls addresses rituals and texts in a small mountainous area located in today's Ukraine. The residents of this remote region are known as the Hutsuls. This book argues that Hutsul rituals and texts, cast as ancient and extraordinary, had more mundane roots. They formed out of ......
Avian Aesthetics in Literature and Culture challenges species centrism through essays that bridge various environment-focused perspectives and methodologies.
Everyone knows fairies love spring flowers and summer sun, but what happens when autumn comes and the days get shorter and colder? Combined with whimsical illustrations these rhyming questions will help children discover just where fairies go when it snows and offer a subtle lesson about the importance of helping one another.
Written 1902 (CW 8) As one of the earliest works by Rudolf Steiner that addresses esoteric themes directly, Christianity as Mystical Fact forms the cornerstone for a new understanding of the essence of Christianity and its place in the spiritual evolution of humanity. The book traces the development of knowledge preserved in the mystery ......
Women'S Tall Tales from the Crockett Almanacs, 1835-1856
The legendary feats of Davy Crockett, who could tree a ghost, ride his thirty-seven-foot-long alligator up Niagara Falls, and drink up the Mississippi River, are common knowledge to devotees of this nineteenth-century comic superhero. But what may come as a surprise to many is that the legendary frontiersman also served as the fictional narrator ......
Features an almost entirely different set of stories, however, each one more thrilling, amusing, and disturbing than the last. This book includes tales of epic warriors, buried treasures, disappearing brides, cannibal demon women, fatal shipwrecks, and clever ruses, where human strength and more.
2017 Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Jewish Literature and Linguistics Honorable Mention, 2016 Baron Book Prize presented by AAJR A monster tour of the Golem narrative across various cultural and historical landscapes In the 1910s and 1920s, a "golem cult" swept across Europe and the U.S., later surfacing in Israel. Why did this story of a ......
The Globalization of Rural Plays in the Twenty-First Century excavates the neglected ideological substratum of peasant folk plays by closely analyzing the promotion, exploitation, and transformation of traditional practices from northeastern Romania and southwest Ukraine.
