Folklore & Mythology
azw3, epub |eng | 2010-09-28 | Author:Trungpa, Chogyam [Trungpa, Chogyam]

61 THE WARRIOR IS NOT AFRAID OF SPACE THE COWARD lives in constant terror of space: Afraid of darkness because he can’t see anything, afraid of silence because he can’t ...
( Category: Tibetan January 22,2015 )
azw3, epub |eng | 2009-12-02 | Author:Chogyam Trungpa & Carolyn Rose Gimian

14 Overcoming Arrogance When you are fully gentle, without arrogance and without aggression, you see the brilliance of the universe. You develop a true perception of the universe. IN THE ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality January 22,2015 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Bernard Evslin [Evslin, Bernard]

J Jason (JAY sun): Leader of the Argonauts in their search for the Golden Fleece. Jason had a valid claim to the throne of Iolchus, a situation which the usurping ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore December 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-15 | Author:Alanna Kaivalya [Kaivalya, Alanna]

9. Oṁ Tryambakaṁ The liberation mantra known as Oṁ Tryambakaṁ, or the Mṛtyuṁjaya Mantra, comes to us from a tantric text known as the Mahānirvāṇa Tantra. It is traditionally chanted ...
( Category: Yoga December 29,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2012-08-22 | Author:Royall Tyler

That is the end of the Venerable Nichizō’s account. Many other wonders are attributed to him. For example, he once dug in the earth and found a vajra-handled bell which ...
( Category: Japanese December 27,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Graeme Davis

A statue of Theseus in Syntagma Square, Athens. Theseus is credited with laying the foundations for the city’s future greatness. (Nikos Pavlakis / Alamy) Plutarch also tells us that Theseus ...
( Category: Greek & Roman December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:Roger Abrahams [Abrahams, Roger]

Hlakanyana met a boy tending some goats. The boy had a digging stick with him. Hlakanyana proposed that they should hunt birds, and the boy agreed. They ran after birds ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-06 | Author:Dorothy Daniels Anderson [Anderson, Dorothy Daniels]

To have come this close to finding a fortune in gold only to see it slip from one’s grasp would have discouraged most men, but not Henry Wickenburg. Even after ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2011-08-02 | Author:Abrahams, Roger [Abrahams, Roger]

Hlakanyana met a boy tending some goats. The boy had a digging stick with him. Hlakanyana proposed that they should hunt birds, and the boy agreed. They ran after birds ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 27,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-12-14 | Author:Mark Collins Jenkins

WITCHES AND WEREWOLVES In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a papal bull making witchcraft a heresy in Catholic Europe. Yet, the hysteria that overtook Europe in the 16th and 17th ...
( Category: Occultism December 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 1909-12-31 | Author:James Honeÿ

16 The Story of a Dam There was a great drought in the land; and Lion called together a number of animals so that they might devise a plan for ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 8,2014 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Barber, Elizabeth Wayland & Barber, Paul T. [Barber, Elizabeth Wayland]

* * * 1 Joshua Katz points out to us that hocus pocus is a mutilation(!) of the Eucharistic phrase Hoc est corpus [meum], “This is [my] body.” 2 After ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-14 | Author:Alan Dundes

Here is the first-person account: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology December 2,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2004-06-03 | Author:Lacey, Robert [Lacey, Robert]

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL AD 1170 KING HENRY II AND HIS CHANCELLOR Thomas Becket were the closest of friends. People declared the two men ‘had but one heart and one ...
( Category: Biographical November 27,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2006-11-27 | Author:Davidson, Avram [Davidson, Avram]

THE SECRET OF HYPERBOREA There rolls the deep where grew the tree, O earth, what changes hast thou seen! There where the long street roars, hath been The stillness of ...
( Category: History & Criticism November 26,2014 )