Folklore & Mythology
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-06-21 | Author:J. Macgowan

VI THE VENGEANCE OF THE GODDESS In a certain temple in the northern part of the Empire, there once lived a famous priest named Hien-Chung, whose reputation had spread far ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-05-28 | Author:Jeanette Winterson [Jeanette Winterson]

He looked at the apple. For the first time he began to think that he had colluded in his punishment. Why had he fought against the gods? He already had ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Mccall Smith [Smith, Alexander Mccall]

"There are no strange animals at that place," she said. "You must be making all this up." But the father believed the boy and said that the next day they ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-03 | Author:Sara Maitland

A ‘hundred’ is an old administrative district, smaller than a county and larger than a parish. Tradition claims the name refers to an area expected to produce 100 men at ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alexander Mccall Smith [Smith, Alexander Mccall]

“The man who marries her will have to give me lots of cattle,” went on the father. “How many?” asked Kumalo. “I am sure that I will have that many.” ...
( Category: Fairy Tales March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-12-31 | Author:E. M. Berens

Dryades, Or Tree Nymphs The tree nymphs partook of the distinguishing characteristics of the particular tree to whose life they were wedded, and were known collectively by the name of ...
( Category: Dragons & Mythical Creatures March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Andrew Lang [Lang, Andrew]

The Enchanted Knife * Once upon a time there lived a young man who vowed that he would never marry any girl who had not royal blood in her veins. ...
( Category: Multicultural March 26,2014 )
epub | | | Author:Terry Pratchett

epub |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:James Hayward

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: World War II March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-04-17 | Author:Daniel Diehl

Twelve From Russia with Hate: André Chikatilo (1978–90) Life has always been hard in the Russian states and it was especially true in 1936 when André Chikatilo was born in ...
( Category: Archaeology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-07-03 | Author:Edmund Leamy [Leamy, Edmund]

* * * THE FAIRY TREE OF DOOROS.[6] Once upon a time the fairies of the west, going home from a hurling-match with the fairies of the lakes, rested in ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Darren Oldridge

THE CASE AGAINST WEREWOLVES Some of the best discussions of werewolves in pre-modern literature can be found in works on satanic witchcraft. This reflected the popular belief that witches could ...
( Category: Folklore & Mythology March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-03-25 | Author:Michael Largo

Where They Went The jaekelopterus lived during the Permian period, when all the continents were connected and surrounded by one humongous ocean called Panthalassa. Something dramatic happened about 250 million ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-06-20 | Author:Dawkins, Richard [Dawkins, Richard]

7 WHAT IS A RAINBOW? THE EPIC OF Gilgamesh is one of the oldest stories ever written. Older than the legends of the Greeks or the Jews, it is the ...
( Category: Educational & Nonfiction March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-23 | Author:Roberts Liardon [Liardon, Roberts]

5 THE GATES OF HELL SHALL NOT PREVAIL Jesus Christ said that the gates of hell would not be able to prevail against His church. Some people misunderstand that. They ...
( Category: Spiritual Warfare March 26,2014 )