Folklore & Mythology
epub |eng | 2017-03-15 | Author:Doniger, Wendy;

Parental Imprinting and Uncertain Fathers The tale of the Vizier’s daughter raises the issue of sexual deficiency. In other tales of clever wives that we have considered, too, the sexual ...
epub |eng | 2018-12-11 | Author:Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm

( Category: Anthologies March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2019-12-02 | Author:Skye Alexander

REASONS TO INVITE HER Best-known for her devotion to her husband, the god Osiris, Isis can help you respect the sacred nature of a primary partnership. If commitment is a ...
( Category: Magic Studies March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Foster, Michael Dylan

Figure 11. Ninmenju. Original illustration by Shinonome Kijin. The process demonstrates one of many ways in which “Japanese” yōkai come into being. It turns out that a seemingly indigenous monster ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2015-04-11 | Author:Alice Karlsdóttir

10 Saga The Storyteller Lore Saga (ON Sága) is another of the Norse goddesses who are numbered among the Asynjur. Snorri (Gylfaginning, ch. 35) lists her as the second goddess ...
( Category: Mythology March 22,2020 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2015-12-26 | Author:Lethaby, W. R [Lethaby, W. R]

According to Sir George Birdwood, the regents of the planets that govern the days of the week in India are distinguished by the following colours: (1) The regent of the ...
( Category: Interior Decorating March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:T. W. Doane [Doane, T. W. (Thomas William)]

Now, in regard to the antiquity of this work, we will quote the words of the translator in speaking on this subject. First, he says: "We know that the Fo-pen-hing ...
( Category: Criticism & Interpretation March 22,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-17 | Author:Francis Bacon [Bacon, Francis]

Chapter XIX Dædalus, or Mechanical Skill Explained of Arts and Artists in Kingdoms and States THE ancients have left us a description of mechanical skill, industry, and curious arts converted ...
( Category: Medieval Thought March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-03-14 | Author:Marita Woywod Crandle

It is very difficult to discern truth from fiction with the Comte’s own foolery, coupled with that of writings that came much later. The Comte de Saint Germain is said ...
( Category: Ghosts & Hauntings March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-08-21 | Author:Flora Annie Steel, Arthur Rackham

( Category: Cultural Heritage March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-13 | Author:Charles Perrault

PUSS IN BOOTS Once upon a time there was a miller who left no more riches to the three sons he had than his mill, his ass, and his cat. ...
( Category: Anthologies March 21,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Francis Grierson

FORECASTING AND PREMONITIONS .................. NOTHING GREAT COMES INTO THE world unattended. Abraham Lincoln was surrounded by men and women who were predestined to their task without being fully aware of ...
( Category: Mysticism March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Anspach, Mark R. [Anspach, Mark R.]

His language has a sort of grandiloquence that would be ridiculous in ordinary circumstances; there is something dominating about his gestures; his very thinking is impatient of proportion and easily ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2020-01-16 | Author:John T. Kruse

[contents] * * * 188. Evans-Wentz, The Fairy Faith, 95; Saxby, Shetland Traditional Lore, 116; see chapter 11 of my British Fairies. 189. Burne, Shropshire Folklore, Part I, 58; Johnson, ...
( Category: Celtic March 20,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-30 | Author:Edgar Thurston [Thurston, Edgar]

1 See Bishop Whitehead, “The Village Deities of Southern India,” Madras Museum Bull., 1907, v. No. 3. 2 Ibid., 1901, iii. No. 3, 270–1. 3 ”Gazetteer of the Tanjore District,” ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 19,2020 )