Folklore & Mythology
azw3 |eng | 2018-10-15 | Author:Seligmann, Kurt [Seligmann, Kurt]

Fig. 90. The Demon Bael Fig. 91. The Demon Forcas Fig. 92. The Demon Buer Fig. 93. The Demon Marchocias Fig. 94. The Demon Astaroth Fig. 95. Behemoth The discrepancy ...
( Category: Paganism May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2016-06-27 | Author:John Colarusso & Tamirlan Salbiev

38 ♦ AISHANA A son was born to Urizhmag, and like the rumble of thunder the news echoed around and reached the ears of the heavenly Shafa, the god of ...
azw3, epub |eng | 2016-06-06 | Author:John Colarusso

SAGA 54 l Shardan In the time of the Narts, there was a man of short stature named Shardan. The millet was ripe, but the Narts did not know how ...
azw3 |eng | 2016-05-18 | Author:Clarkson, Tim & Clarkson, Tim [Clarkson, Tim]

Gwenddolau: hero, villain or pagan? In the triad of the Three Fortunate Assassinations, the man-eating birds frequently seen as alluding to Gwenddolau’s paganism might merely reflect a hostile attitude towards ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2018-11-02 | Author:Bulfinch, Thomas [Bulfinch, Thomas]

CHAPTER XIV SIR TRISTRAM'S BATTLE WITH SIR LAUNCELOT Sir Tristram rode through a forest and saw ten men fighting, and one man did battle against nine. So he rode to ...
( Category: Gothic & Romantic May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-07-03 | Author:CHARLES RUSSELL COULTER and PATRICIA TURNER

N N (Maya) God of the end of the year. Na-Arean (Micronesia) see Nareau. Na Atibu (Oceanic) This is another name for the first human, De Babou. See also Nareau. ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2013-09-16 | Author:Green, Peter [Green, Peter]

8 A Variety of Greek Appetites* OUR VIEW OF, and attitude toward, the ancient world are in perpetual flux: a Heracleitan assertion itself liable to be dismissed—on impeccably rational grounds, ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-05-23 | Author:Wroe, Ann [Wroe, Ann]

Medieval theologians followed Orpheus into a lower world already licked by fire. As an enlightened soul – as Intellect itself – he had no business to be there, among small ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
azw3 |eng | 2003-06-10 | Author:McCaffrey, Carmel & Eaton, Leo [McCaffrey, Carmel]

Many early saints left Ireland altogether, settling on remote offshore islands or traveling to foreign lands. Sixth-century Ireland, still reeling from the aftereffects of climate disaster and plague, was birthing ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2003-05-29 | Author:Aesop

It is thus with men also: those who abandon their own occupations to mix themselves up in affairs which don’t concern them meet with misfortune as a natural consequence. 151 ...
( Category: Medieval May 27,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-05-16 | Author:Bill Ivey

FIVE STORIES JUST BEFORE THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 2016, JAMES Alefantis, owner of a family-oriented pizza shop in suburban Washington, suddenly noticed menacing messages posted by dozens of new Instagram ...
( Category: Cultural Policy May 17,2019 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2019-02-18 | Author:Nigel Pennick

Fig. 8.1. Masked highwaymen robbing travelers, eighteenth century. The starving farm laborers who took part in the Ely and Littleport riots of 1816 wore disguises. Militant workers in various parts ...
( Category: Magic Studies May 17,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-12-29 | Author:Thomas Karlsson

INTRODUCTION TO PART 2 Gothicism is associated by many people mainly with the Swedish fantasies of great power expressed in Olof Rudbeck’s Atlantica, where it is maintained that Atlantis was ...
( Category: Divination May 10,2019 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-21 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 6,2019 )
epub |eng | 2018-09-26 | Author:Stephen Fry

THE JOURNEY HOME By the time the last pieces of Absyrtus had been dropped into the water at careful intervals, Aeëtes’ ship was far behind, out of sight below the ...