Mythology & Folklore
mobi, epub |eng | 2000-02-15 | Author:Lynn Holden

Ibn al-Farid goes on to describe the potency of the wine: had they sprinkled therewith the dust of a dead man’s tomb, the spirit would surely have returned unto him ...
( Category: Cultural June 11,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2008-01-02 | Author:Jonathan Maberry

* * * Art of the Dead—Seth Rose Strange Immortality “Immortality is no gift. I can’t think of anything sadder than to just continue to exist.” * * * Joyce ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:John & Caitlin Matthews [John and Caitlin Matthews]

JACKALOPE A fictitious creature from the folklore of North America, the Jackalope is said to be a cross between a jack rabbit and an antelope, and is usually portrayed as ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore March 20,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | | Author:Ken Jennings

MOSTLY TRUE. “Make sure you shampoo every day!” My mom counted herself lucky if we washed our hair once a week (usually on Saturday night, Little House on the Prairie–style!), ...
( Category: Trivia March 4,2015 )
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, pdf |eng | 2011-07-25 | Author:Margot Adler

11. Religions of Paradox and Play “LARGE PARTS of the Neo-Pagan movement started out as jokes, you know,” Robert Anton Wilson, author, Witch, and a former editor of Playboy, told ...
( Category: Paganism December 26,2014 )
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 )
mobi |eng | 2008-09-15 | Author:Sarah Beach [Beach, Sarah]

SECTION FOUR – PROFESSIONAL SPECIALISTS I have often been frustrated by the fact that the seven traditional Archetypes did not always help me understand the specifics of a character (either ...
( Category: Writing Skills October 30,2014 )
epub |eng | 1994-11-15 | Author:David Adams Leeming & Margaret Adams Leeming [Leeming, David Adams & Leeming, Margaret Adams]

FOJRIDON ¿ MORBAC CITY 165 des plantes de mauve par la racine: cíest un oeuf de dinosaure et serrer la main díArmstrong (1). Si parmi mes lecteurs, quelquíun peut míindiquer ...
( Category: Comparative Religion October 1,2014 )
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 |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 | 2012-10-03 | Author:Bernard Evslin [Evslin, Bernard]

POSEIDON DECIDES THE GOD OF THE sea was vexed. Unlike the other gods he had held himself aloof from this war. He had preened himself on being so far above ...
( Category: Encyclopedias 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 |eng | 2007-03-25 | Author:Leland Gregory [Gregory, Leland]

Al Capone ran one of the most ruthless and far-reaching gangs of the prohibition era in the twentieth century—but what did his brother Vincent Capone do? Vincent, Al’s older brother; ...
( Category: Mythology & Folklore March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 1993-03-25 | Author:Richard Shenkman

CHIANG KAI-SHEK Chiang Kai-shek is remembered as a dictator, but not as a really bad one. He went around killing people, but they were the wrong kind of people, so ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )