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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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  • Саксон Грамматик о дохристианской славянской религии: Новый перевод соответствующих фрагментов XIV книги Деяний Данов

    Среди созданных в эпоху активного существования славянского язычества письменных источников по дохристианской религии и мифологии славян, в большинстве своем крайне фрагментарных и ангажированных, западные, германо-датские, латиноязычные источники выгодно отличаются от арабских свидетельств и документов Древней Руси своей относительной подробностью и меньшей предвзятостью. Но даже на фоне ... Read more

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  • Da casa à praça pública

    a espetacularização das festas juninas no espaço urbano

    Fruto de uma pesquisa de doutorado defendida na Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), esta publicação apresenta o viés mercadológico das festas privadas, de “camisa”, que, por vezes, é contrabalançado pelo espaço festivo – ainda que residual – dos terreiros frontais das casas ou das trilhas rurais, ao tempo que as festas nos espaços públicos, como em praças, ... 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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  • Kukačka, pták kouzelný

    Series series Bohové, bubáci a monstra
    Kukačka je bezesporu ptákem dobře známým i nechvalně známým. Od nepaměti představovala pro člověka jakési živé orákulum, jehož se dalo vyptávat na věci budoucí; zároveň ale šlo o ptáka, který se nerozpakoval svěřit výchovu vlastního potomstva cizím. Býval to opeřenec na jaře toužebně očekávaný, stejně jako v některých situacích nevítaný.Tato knížečka shrnuje pověry a pověsti, které kukačce ... 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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  • Лепый Ива: Опыт синтеза и реконструкции ряда тем индоевропейского мифа в контексте славянского Ярилина цикла

    В данной реконструкции славянского мифа о Яриле и Марзанне используется компаративный подход, когда утерянные фрагменты сюжета одного этнического мифа восстанавливаются по сохранившимся материалам аналогичных мифов в других индоевропейских этнических традициях. Греко-римские, иранские, индийские ведические, кельтские, и германские мифические сюжеты, рассмотренные в контексте исходной ... 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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  • O encantamento de sua santidade

    cancão de fogo

    Livro de cordel que repõe em circulação a figura legendária de Cancão de Fogo, um herói popular brasileiro, personagem um tanto esquecido de contos, versos e anedotas picarescas nordestinas. Além de uma trilogia sobre as aventuras de Cancão de Fogo, encerra um outro cordel, intitulado “Bodas de Mangue”, que já fora dado a público sob a forma de peça teatral encenada no Teatro Vila Velha, em ... 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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  • Zombies in Western Culture: A Twenty-First Century Crisis

    Why has the zombie become such a pervasive figure in twenty-first-century popular culture? John Vervaeke, Christopher Mastropietro and Filip Miscevic seek to answer this question by arguing that particular aspects of the zombie, common to a variety of media forms, reflect a crisis in modern Western culture. The authors examine the essential features of the zombie, including mindlessness, ugliness ... Read more

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  • Dimore e Viaggi

    Series series Storia di Italia (I Costumi degli Italiani nella Storia)
    Uno splendido eBook che ci parla delle dimore italiane durante i secoli e dei viaggi che si compivano nel medioevo, nel rinascimento e nell’ottocento. Il tutto splendidamente illustrato. ... Read more

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  • Kentler ve Müzik

    Kentlerin kendi içlerinde duyulabilen müzikleri olduğunu düşünüyorum. Bu şarkıları ve müzikleri duyabilmek için sadece kulaklarınız yeterli gelmeyecektir. Ellerinizi cebinize sokmanız, ara ve çıkmaz sokaklara, pazarlara girmeniz, merdivenlerine oturup duvarlarına dokunmanız, meydanlardan gökyüzüne bakmanız, hiçbir plan yapmadan varılacak yeri sadece bir sonraki sokağın kıvrımlarının belirlemesine ... 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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  • 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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  • Mitos e outras narrativas Kamayura

    O livro é uma das mais relevantes coletâneas de mitos ameríndios das terras baixas da América do Sul, sendo exemplar pela cobertura ampla, densa e profunda que faz da mitologia Kamayurá. O mito constitui o modelo universal de explanação do mundo, estando na base de sua intensa vida cerimonial caracterizada pela beleza, pelo encanto e pela eficácia das artes e do corpo. ... Read more

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  • Král pod Horou

    Series series Bohové, bubáci a monstra
    Existuje pověst, kterou bude znát většina dotazovaných v nesoutěžním výzkumu, prováděném na ulicích, v zařízeních pracovních i společenských, u krbu, před televizní obrazovkou i v ochozech stadionu?Určitě. Bílá paní. Praotec Čech. A velmi pravděpodobně i Blaničtí rytíři.V tomto krátkém spisku se můžete seznámit nejen s pověstí o kopci, tyčícím se nad Louňovicemi. Poznáte též, že Blaník není ... 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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  • 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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  • Miedo Terror y Angustia

    En el oscuro rincón donde se entrelazan la realidad y la superstición, te invito a sumergirte en las páginas de "Miedo,Terror y Angustia" un viaje épico que desafía la comprensión humana y se aventura más allá de los límites de lo conocido. Desde los temores infantiles que nos perseguían en las noches hasta las leyendas que han perdurado a lo largo de las generaciones, este libro te trasportará ... Read more

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