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  • True Hauntings: Stories of Entire Towns, Ships & Planes That Are Cursed to the Core

    by Joseph Exton ...
    Every paranormal enthusiast on this planet knows that anything and everything has the potential to become haunted. At times, hauntings are caused by terrifying events, at other times, they are caused by horrific tragedies. There are even times when an object, location, or building may become haunted for no apparent reason at all – just one day a spirit decides to take up residence in the area and ... Read more

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  • The Ghost of Mingo Creek and Other Spooky Oklahoma Legends

    by Greg Rodgers ...
    Penned by Greg Rodgers, an Oklahoma storyteller and member of the Choctaw Nation, this book features creepy tales that take place across the Oklahoma landscape. From a ghost that haunts Tulsa County's Mingo Creek to the Kiamichi Country's bigfoot in the southeast region of the state, the stories are based on rich Oklahoma legends. Although written with the middle reader in mind, award-winning ... Read more

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  • 2012 Genesis: A New Beginning for Humanity

    by Kelaiah ...
    In 2012 Genesis: A New Beginning For Humanity, we will attempt to show the positive aspects of many religions, prophecies and theories about 2012, and the 'End Times'. The date of 12-21-2012 in the Mayan Long Count Calendar, a 5,125 year cycle, is only the end of an epoch. There have been many epochs ending, and in each instance, another starts. This impending doom is not found in any of the ... Read more

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  • Crab Boy's Ghost, Gullah Folktales from Murrells Inlet's Brookgreen Gardens in the South Carolina Lowcountry

    Series series Tales from Brookgreen
    Beware the Shrieking Droll!Meet the restless spirit of a young boy lost forever to a fierce marsh creature. Now he haunts the maze of Murrells Inlet marshes as a "droll," the unhappy ghost of a child who has died an unnatural death.Then enjoy the antics of friendlier animal inhabitants of nearby Waccamaw swamp: Brother Frog, Brother Rabbit, and Brother Gator, each trying to outwit the other.This ... Read more

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  • Dionysos

    Archetype of Individuation by Way of a Beginning

    by Klemens Swib ...
    Series series The Psychology of Individuation
    If the Dionysian myth is a psychic projection. then is it possible to reverse engineer it back into the psyche. Read on and decide upon the merits of my reverse engineering project for yourself. Along the way you might pick up a rosetta stone providing a key to understanding the language of the internal aspect of nature. And i'll even promise to lay the groundwork for establishing the ... Read more

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  • Heroic Poets, Poetic Heroes

    The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition

    Series series Myth and Poetics
    An astonishingly rich oral epic that chronicles the early history of a Bedouin tribe, the Sirat Bani Hilal has been performed for almost a thousand years. In this ethnography of a contemporary community of professional poet-singers, Dwight F. Reynolds reveals how the epic tradition continues to provide a context for social interaction and commentary. Reynolds’s account is based on performances in ... Read more

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  • Asatru for Beginners

    Discovering the Rich History and the Fundamental Principles of Norse Paganism, Asatru and Rune Magic

    Those who practice Asatru believe in a direct line of communication with the gods. Asatru adherents hold the gods exist and can be communicated with in a variety of ways, including rites, prayers, and offerings. Since the Norse pantheon contains many gods and goddesses, Asatru cannot be considered a monotheistic religion like Christianity. To differentiate themselves from other polytheistic ... Read more

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  • Stream Of Consciousness

    Irish Confetti; Prisoners Displacement; Advice From The Nose Bleed Section; She was killed by Private Interests; Parable Of Bang In A bright Blue Flash; Eon's Whisper-back ... Read more

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  • Trinidadian Folklore: A Journey Into The Night

    by Nadia Persad ...
    The Caribbean is known for its beaches, its people, and its food. The southernmost island of Trinidad is no different, but there is another side that most don't see. It's a side that only comes out in the dead of night. Join me as I describe some of the colorful folklore characters from my home land. Turn off the lights and visit with lost souls, and ruthless shape-shifters. ... Read more

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  • Management Decision

    Cowchip Alabama, #5

    Series Book 5 - Cowchip Alabama
    Delightfully humorous, Twilight Zonish SCIENCE FICTION by Norman E. Morrison with a quirky twist. One in the Cowchip Alabama series of fine stories and books.The Plot: Mynerd Troft, an out of work and failed meat packing employee, is looking for a job and he ends up at a nondescript facility in Cowchip Alabama where he gets the interview of a lifetime and learns the most monstrous secret in human ... Read more

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  • 50 Fairy and Folk Tales for Teachers Students and Kids of the Brothers Grimm

    The Original Folk and Fairy Tales First Edition

    Two centuries ago, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published their first volume of fairy tales. Since then, such stories as “Cinderella,” “Snow White,” “Rapunzel,” and “Hansel and Gretel” have become deeply woven into the Western imagination.Here is a collection of the most suitable fairy tales that can be used for teaching and learning purposes.This book contains chapters that explain the historic ... Read more

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  • Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore

    A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

    Series Book 28 - Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives
    This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, phraseology, speech acts). Employing the methodology and analytical tools of cognitive linguistics ... Read more

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  • Japanese Yokai, Urban Legends and More

    by Vince Bios ...
    A collection of articles about Japanese legends and ghost stories. ... Read more

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  • An Alphabet of Characters From Mythology

    by Jane Palmer ...
    26 iconic deities from around the world, many still revered today, depicted in detailed, line artwork. ... Read more

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  • Son of the Sun

    The Life and Philosophy of Akhnaton, King of Egypt

    by Savitri Devi ...
    The amazing story of Akhnaton (Amenhotep IV ), Pharaoh of Egypt 1360 B.C. This is not just the fascinating story of a man’s life— it is far more. It raises the curtain on man’s emerging from superstition and idolatry. Against the tremendous opposition of a fanatical and politically corrupt priesthood, Akhnaton brought about the world’s first spiritual revolution. He was the first to declare a ... Read more

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  • The Medieval Saga

    Written in the thirteenth century, the Icelandic prose sagas, chronicling the lives of kings and commoners, give a dramatic account of the first century after the settlement of Iceland—the period from about 930 to 1050. To some extent these elaborate tales are written versions of traditional sagas passed down by word of mouth. How did they become the long and polished literary works that are still ... Read more

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  • Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India

    Series series Myth and Poetics
    In Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India, Joyce Burkhalter Flueckiger analyzes six representative Indian folklore genres from a single regional repertoire to show the influence of their intertextual relations on the composition and interpretation of artistic performance. Placing special emphasis on women’s rituals, she looks at the relationship between the framework and organization of ... Read more

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  • Perranzabuloe Museum

    Look beyond the sand and surf to the fasinating history of the Parish of Perranzabuloe, Cornwall, U.K.Learn about intresting facts, watch animations and play games all within this ebook!This Ebook/ information portal concept was realised by Year 11 Young Ambassadors from Treviglas School, Newquay, Cornwall.As well as making & choosing the content for this site in conjunction with Perranzabuloe ... Read more

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  • Gone Squatchin': In Search of the Elusive Bigfoot

    For centuries, legends and eyewitness accounts have told of a massive, hairy creature that roams the forest on two legs. While science has yet to prove the existence of this mythical man-beast, countless researchers around the world are convinced that there is a giant, ape-like animal hiding in remote areas of the world. They point to the discovery of large, inexplicable footprints as evidence of ... Read more

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  • The Nuosu Book of Origins

    A Creation Epic from Southwest China

    Translated by Mark Bender, Aku Luo ...
    Series series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China
    Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295745701The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare ... Read more

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  • The Boggart Sourcebook

    Texts and Memories for the Study of the British Supernatural

    Series series Exeter New Approaches to Legend, Folklore and Popular Belief
    Comprising three parts, this book is a companion volume to The Boggart: Folklore, History, Place-Names and Dialect. Part one, ‘Boggart Ephemera’, is a selection of about 40,000 words of nineteenth-century boggart writing (particularly material that is difficult to find in libraries). Part two presents a catalogue of ‘Boggart Names’ (place-names and personal names, totalling over 10,000 words). ... Read more

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  • THE STORY OF THE THREE APPLES - A Children's Story from 1001 Arabian Nights

    Baba Indaba Children's Stories - Issue 239

    Series Book 239 - Baba Indaba Children's Stories
    ISSN: 2397-9607 Issue 239In this 239th issue of the Baba Indaba’s Children's Stories series, Baba Indaba narrates the Arabian Nights story of The Three Apples.Once upon a time long, long ago and far, far away the Khaleefeh Hároon Er-Rasheed said to Jaafar, his Wezeer (Vizier), We will disguise ourselves and go down to-night into the city, and inquire of the affairs of those who we find.They find ... Read more

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  • Metamorphoses

    by Ovid ...
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-AD 17) was a Roman poet, sometimes called the first great poet of the Roman Empire, who wrote the literary masterpiece, "Metamorphoses."Written in Latin, "Metamorphoses" is a 15-book narrative poem that gives an account of history from the creation of the world until the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BC. "Metamorphoses" incorporates over 250 classical Greek and ... Read more

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  • The Myth of the Birth of the Hero

    by Otto Rank ...
    Originally published in 1909, Otto Rank's "The Myth of the Birth of the Hero" offered psychoanalytical interpretations of mythological stories as a means of understanding the human psyche.Like his mentor Sigmund Freud, Rank compared the myths of such figures as Oedipus, Moses, and Sargon with common dreams, seeing in both a symbolic fulfilment of repressed desire.In Otto Rank's view, this book was ... Read more

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