Fairy Tales
epub |eng | 2016-03-15 | Author:Idries Shah

The Time, the Place and the People INANCIENT TIMES there was a king who called a dervish to him and said: “The dervish Path, through a succession of masters reaching ...
( Category: Sufism March 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 1968-03-14 | Author:V. Propp

CHAPTER IV Assimilations: Cases of the Double Morphological Meaning of a Single Function It has already been shown that functions must be defined independently of the characters who are supposed ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-02-04 | Author:Reinhart, Melanie [Reinhart, Melanie]

Gustave Moreau Gustave Moreau, painter of the beautiful picture ‘Dead Poetess Carried by a Centaur’,111 had Chiron in Aries in a stellium with Pluto, Moon, Sun and Venus, the latter ...
( Category: Astrology March 13,2020 )
mobi |eng | 2011-04-06 | Author:Patrick Harpur

One of the greatest alchemists - certainly my favourite - was also one of the last. He wrote under the name Eirenaeus Philalethes, but his identity is unknown. In his ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 4,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-01-15 | Author:Robert A. Segal [Segal, Robert A.]

8. Hunting the Calydon Boar, Laconian Greek cup from Cerveteri, 6th century BC The communal nature of actual hunting, and of ritualized hunting thereafter, functioned to assuage anxiety over one’s ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology January 19,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-11-15 | Author:L. R. W. Lee [Lee, L. R. W.]

Empress, The prince and his lady proved quite the entertaining company over a sennight, so I was saddened when they chose to continue on so soon. I had many more ...
( Category: Fairy Tales January 9,2020 )
epub |eng | 2009-10-15 | Author:Bob Hartman [Hartman, Bob]

The Clever Baker Annie was a baker – the best in all Scotland. Shortbreads and buns and cakes – she made them all. And they were so delicious that no ...
( Category: Anthologies November 20,2019 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-02-13 | Author:Devdutt Pattanaik

MARCH OF THE VEDIC HYMNS All Hindus accept the Veda as the foundation of Hinduism. The Veda is made up of four collections of chants known as mantras. These chants ...
( Category: Rituals & Practice January 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-06-14 | Author:Robert Browning [Browning, Robert]

IX. A thousand guilders! The Mayor looked blue; So did the Corporation too. For council dinners made rare havoc With Claret, Moselle, Vin–de–Grave, Hock; And half the money would replenish ...
( Category: Stories In Verse October 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-25 | Author:Alan Dundes [Dundes, Alan]

Although the arrangement of the mourners varies in different parts, it is not random. The procedure is strict and formal; one of the kinswomen usually leads off, helped by the ...
( Category: Occultism April 11,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Jackson Pearce [Pearce, Jackson]

CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Lo I’m sorry. That’s what I want to say. I know she was trying to help Naida. I know she cares about Naida. But I’m not meant for ...
( Category: Romance March 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Leland Gregory [Gregory, Leland]

Al Capone ran one of the most ruthless and far-reaching gangs of the prohibition era in the twentieth century—but what did his brother Vincent Capone do? Vincent, Al’s older brother; ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore March 26,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2008-04-29 | Author:Marr, Melissa [Marr, Melissa]

Behind them, faeries pushed closer, scuffling and chattering. The old woman gave Keenan a searing look—her white eyes shining—and said, “She’s different than the others, dear. Special.” “I already knew ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-04-22 | Author:Melissa Marr

As the evening wore on, faeries he hadn’t seen in years arrived at the carnival. It’s a good turnout—even with the hags here to spy for Beira. Emissaries from the ...
( Category: Paranormal & Urban March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 1979-06-13 | Author:John Anthony West

detail of a given situation. The image is concrete (bird, snake, dog, etc.), and it represents a synthesis, a complex of qualities, functions and principles. Careful study of the symbols ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 25,2014 )