Folklore & Mythology
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-26 | Author:Nick Harding

'THE DEATH CAR' As already mentioned, the proliferation of the automobile has brought numerous Urban Legends about its use and ownership. The Death Car is one that is not as ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-02-15 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

So the slave hastened to the king's palace and gave his message, which troubled both the king and the queen greatly. A pot of hot gruel was instantly prepared, and ...
( Category: Anthologies October 15,2014 )
epub |eng | 2002-09-30 | Author:Padraic Colum [Colum, Padraic]

THE TOWN OF THE RED CASTLE I Flann was the name that the Old Woman of Beare gave to Gilly of the Goatskin when he came back to tell her ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2002-05-31 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

How Some Wild Animals Became Tame Ones Once upon a time there lived a miller who was so rich that, when he was going to be married, he asked to ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-10-08 | Author:John T. Edge

Deep South Deacon-Fried Chicken ATLANTA, GEORGIA Deacon Burton was a minimalist. I don’t suppose he would have approved of my use of thyme. His spice cabinet was bare except for ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 9,2014 )
epub |eng | 2008-05-17 | Author:Muhsin Mahdi & Husain Haddawy [Mahdi, Muhsin & Haddawy, Husain]

THE NINETY-NINTH NIGHT The following night Shahrazad said: It is related, O King, that Ja’far said to the caliph: Badr al-Din said, “Because the pomegranate dish lacked pepper, you have ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology October 9,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-08 | Author:Robert Sullivan; Glenn Wolff

“It was spring, of course, when I was there. As I was soon to learn—from Santa himself, in fact—the nine deer who make the annual journey must rest a full ...
( Category: Christmas October 1,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2010-03-11 | Author:Alexander McCall Smith [Smith, Alexander McCall]

The aunt was very quiet during the journey back home. The next day she was quiet as well, and she never shouted at the boy again. Being swallowed by a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-09-28 | Author:James L. Parr

THE ORDEAL OF JONATHAN MAYNARD Jonathan Maynard was born on January 22, 1752, the son of Jonathan and Martha (Gleason) Maynard. His parents’ house was located on the north side ...
( Category: State & Local September 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-10-29 | Author:Lynne S. McNeill

Things We Do When it comes to things we do, we’re entering an incredibly broad area of folklore studies. Customs (like holiday traditions), gestures (like a thumbs-up or flipping someone ...
( Category: Social Studies September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-05-06 | Author:Jane Yolen [Yolen, Jane]

THE GOOSE GIRL Germany There was once upon a time an old queen whose husband had been dead for many years, and she had a beautiful daughter. When the princess ...
( Category: Fairy Tales September 22,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Roberta Simpson Brown

The Woman Who Was Almost a Ghost Several years ago, the Louisville Ghost Hunters held the Mid-South Paranormal Conference at Waverly Hills Sanatorium. An area was set aside for book ...
( Category: Ghosts & Hauntings September 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 1992-03-15 | Author:Robert Graves [Graves, Robert]

The Death Of Theseus DURING Theseus’s absence in Tartarus the Dioscuri assembled an army of Laconians and Arcadians, marched against Athens, and demanded the return of Helen. When the Athenians ...
( Category: Research August 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-02 | Author:Marina Warner [Marina Warner]

Nebuchadnezzar has acquired the pretty ways of the metamorphosed victims of the Arabian Nights, who in their animal form understand language and give speaking looks to their masters, like the ...
( Category: Regional July 20,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-07-03 | Author:Mogk, Matt [Mogk, Matt]

On that same program, just two days after the World Trade Center attacks in 2001, Jerry Falwell blamed the tragedy not on the foreign hijackers or distant terrorist masterminds but ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology July 6,2014 )