Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.
Forty Chinese fairy tales linked together via an overarching story entitled The strayed arrow.
This book divides into two basic parts.
Discusses old crafts and folk skills, from covered bridge building to quiltmaking, as well as the legends and lore of Indiana.
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.
In Pennsylvania Dutch country, the remnants of one of the oldest European magical practices found in America remains: Hex, also called Hex und Speilwerk or Pow Wow.
Nineteen stories focus on the magical lore and wondrous imaginings of African American women.
Filólogos, pedagogos, psicólogos, folcloristas, antropólogos, historiadores o personas con intereses culturales amplios asedian continuamente, en busca de respuestas, la fortaleza laberíntica e inexpugnable –pese a su apariencia ...
These wise stories, together with Thomas Locker's luminous paintings, evoke the sacred places above, below, and within us all. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.
Stories include "Tom Connors and the Dead Girl," "Maurice Griffin and the Fairy Doctor," "The Ghost of Sneem," "Tom Moore and the Seal Woman," "The Blood-Drawing Ghost," and many more.