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The Choking Doberman: And Other Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jan Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold]

ANIMAL GROUP HEAD SAYS ORIENTALS EAT PETS By Mary Anne Shreve Journal Staff Writer The local president of a humanitarian organization has accused Oriental residents in Springfield of catching—and eating—neighborhood ...
( Category: Popular Culture August 5,2020 )
The White Goddess (FSG Classics) by Robert Graves
azw3, mobi, epub |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

Moon – Division of Waters Mars – Dry Land, Pasture and Trees Mercury – Heavenly Bodies and the Seasons Jupiter – Sea-beasts and Birds Venus – Land-beasts, Man and Woman ...
( Category: Poetry August 5,2020 )
Too Good to Be True: The Colossal Book of Urban Legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2020-08-03 | Author:Jan Harold Brunvand [Brunvand, Jan Harold]

From Helen Creighton’s 1957 book Bluenose Ghosts, pp. 185–87. This text shares the “portrait identification” motif with many versions of “The Vanishing Hitchhiker.” A variation of the “Ghost in Search ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology August 5,2020 )
Para-Narratives in the Odyssey by Maureen Alden
epub |eng | 2017-09-07 | Author:Maureen Alden [Alden, Maureen]

The man who looks like a god but whose words lack grace obviously corresponds to Euryalus, and the man of insignificant appearance, honoured like a god for his rhetorical gifts, ...
( Category: Medieval August 1,2020 )
Restless Dead by Johnston Sarah Iles
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Johnston, Sarah Iles

HECATE AND GIRLS’ TRANSITIONS I mentioned above that one of Hecate’s earliest roles in Greek literature and art was that of a wedding attendant. In this she was similar to ...
( Category: Ritual August 1,2020 )
The Origins And History Of Consciousness by Erich Neumann
mobi |eng | 2015-12-21 | Author:Erich Neumann [Neumann, Erich]

27. The hawk god Horns with King Nectanebo II Egypt, 370 B.C. 28. Ramesses I sacrifices to Isis and to the Osiris head symbol Egypt, Abydos, 14th–13th century B.C. 29. ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 29,2020 )
Pagan Portals - Loki: Trickster and Transformer by Dagulf Loptson
epub |eng | 2020-05-28 | Author:Dagulf Loptson [Loptson, Dagulf]

Chapter 7 Goða Dolgr: The Enemy of the Gods Aside from his wife Sigyn in Asgarðr, Loki had a lover in Jötunheimr named Angrboða, the “distress bringer”. With her he ...
( Category: Paganism July 28,2020 )
Tales of Folk and Fairies by Katharine Pyle
epub |eng | 2008-06-26 | Author:Katharine Pyle [Pyle, Katharine]

* * * [1] King. THE MAGIC TURBAN, THE MAGIC SWORD AND THE MAGIC CARPET A Persian Story There were once two brothers, the sons of a rich merchant, and ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 27,2020 )
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ by Kersey Graves
mobi |eng | 2012-01-16 | Author:Kersey Graves

"One vast, appointed flame, by Fate's decree, Shall waste yon azure heavens, the earth and sea." The Egyptians marked their houses with red, to indicate that the world would be ...
( Category: Comparative Religion July 26,2020 )
Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs by Jennifer Speake
epub |eng | 2015-09-12 | Author:Jennifer Speake [Speake, Jennifer]

laugh see also jove but laughs at lovers’ perjury; love laughs at locksmiths. He LAUGHS best who laughs last The person who finally wins in any situation is the one ...
( Category: Word Lists July 25,2020 )
The Myths - 02 - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
mobi |eng | 2005-10-11 | Author:Margaret Atwood

While tied to the mast he did rant and did rave, But Odysseus alone learned their riddle! The whirlpool Charybdis did not our lad catch, Nor snake-headed Scylla, she could ...
( Category: Mythology July 22,2020 )
The Unidentified by Colin Dickey
epub |eng | 2020-07-20 | Author:Colin Dickey

* * * The desert is contactee country, where mystics and occultists (along with ordinary people like Bethurum) claimed to have made communions with visitors from other planets throughout the ...
( Category: Communication & Media Studies July 21,2020 )
Dreams, Myths and Fairy Tales in Japan by Hayao Kawai
epub |eng | 2020-04-20 | Author:Hayao Kawai

6. The Repetition of Balancing Movements Throughout the mythology of Japan, one is impressed by the fact that a basic story is retold again and again with only subtle changes. ...
( Category: Folklore July 21,2020 )
The Last Storytellers: Tales From the Heart of Morocco by Richard Hamilton
epub |eng | 2011-05-25 | Author:Richard Hamilton [Hamilton, Richard]

El-Ghaliya Bent Mansour Ahmed Temiicha Four hundred years ago, there was an Emir who lived in Marrakech. He had heard that in Andalusia there lived a king who owned an ...
( Category: African July 21,2020 )
Mythology of the British Isles by Geoffrey Ashe
epub |eng | 2020-04-22 | Author:Geoffrey Ashe [Ashe, Geoffrey]

32 St Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins Ursula was a British princess. A pagan prince asked for her hand in marriage.[1] Preferring to remain single, and certainly not wanting ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 21,2020 )

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