Folklore & Mythology
epub, pdf |eng | 2010-05-19 | Author:Theresa Bane [Bane, Theresa]

Variations: Oupire (“bloodsucker”) magical elixir made of fruit and vegetable juices, In Poland any child who is born with a caul and to shape- shift into various animal forms in ...
( Category: Reference June 23,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-19 | Author:Burton L. Mack

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO LUKE Somewhere in the Aegean, around the year 120 C.E., a great two-volume work appeared that expanded upon the gospel story of Jesus by adding a ...
( Category: New Testament June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-11-01 | Author:Robert Lacey [Lacey, Robert]

ELIZABETH - QUEEN OF HEARTS 1559 ELIZABETH I WAS CROWNED IN WESTMINSTER Abbey on 15 January 1559 — a date selected by her astrologer, Dr John Dee. Cheering crowds had ...
( Category: United States May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-02 | Author:Wengrow, David

TRANSFORMATIVE MODE: COMPOSITES INTRUDE Transformative modes of image transfer belong to a wider class of what Andrew Bevan calls “contact phenomena,” appearing among communities that were being strongly influenced by ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology May 3,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-01 | Author:Campbell, Joseph [Campbell, Joseph]

Gnosticism is the Western counterpart of Buddhism. Thomas says, in other words, that there is a revelation possible to you right now. It is here. So, “to be happy with ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 24,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-11-25 | Author:Stephen Larsen [Stephen and Robin Larsen]

12:00 Lunch, private or with a friend 1:00–4:00 Correspondence, read, write 4:00–6:00 Workout (usually forty laps in New York Athletic Club pool) 6:00–7:30 Dinner with Jean or guests 7:30–10:30 Write, ...
( Category: Educators April 24,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-08-18 | Author:Joseph Campbell [Campbell, Joseph]

PART II THE COSMOGONIC CYCLE CHAPTER I EMANATIONS 1. From Psychology to Metaphysics It IS not difficult for the modern intellectual to concede that the symbolism of mythology has a ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology April 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 1998-09-25 | Author:Alan Dundes [Dundes, Alan]

Although the arrangement of the mourners varies in different parts, it is not random. The procedure is strict and formal; one of the kinswomen usually leads off, helped by the ...
( Category: Occultism April 11,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Mac Coitir, Niall [Mac Coitir, Niall]

In Silesia many villages welcomed summer by throwing an effigy of Death into water to symbolically drown it. After thus defeating Death the children celebrated the rebirth of life by ...
( Category: Fairy Tales April 4,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2014-01-31 | Author:Stone, Larry [Stone, Larry]

Gravity-fed automatic pet feeders, similar to those available at Petco, could hold enough food for a week. Water in the ark could be transported not with buckets but with pipes ...
( Category: Science & Religion April 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:James Hayward [Hayward, James]

5 Trench Myths The principal trench and battlefield myths examined in this chapter are those of the Crucified Canadian in 1915, and the German corpse conversion plant, which first gained ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-15 | Author:Brothers Grimm [Grimm, Brothers]

THE BLUE LIGHT There once was a soldier who had faithfully served his king for many years. But when the war was over, the king said to the soldier, who ...
( Category: Multicultural March 31,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-06-15 | Author:Erich von Daniken [Daniken, Erich von]

Today the seaman knows that his goal exists (unlike the prehistoric discoverer); he knows where it lies and on what route it is to be found. The original Polynesians lacked ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-12-15 | Author:Hunter S. Thompson [Thompson, Hunter S.]

Willow Cove was a natural Dunkirk. I watched the two remaining deputies; the moment they left, I was leaving too. . . their departure could only mean that things had ...
( Category: Organized Crime March 27,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-05-01 | Author:Eva Wong [Wong, Eva]

FEI CHANG-FANG lived during the latter part of the Han dynasty (206 BCE–219 CE) and is regarded as the patron of healers and herbalists. Huan Ching’s visit to the shrines ...
( Category: Taoism March 27,2014 )