Category: Mythology & Folklore

Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead (Gift Edition with Scarab)

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Sterling Innovation : October 2011

Seller ID: 194597

ISBN-13: 9781435123021

In ancient Egypt, "The Book of the Dead" was buried with the deceased to assist the spirit in its journey to eternal life. This special edition of the classic text comes packaged in a stunning gold foil-stamped, embossed gift box along with a beautiful collectible scarab--a symbol of resurrection for the Egyptians. Translated by an eminent Egyptologist, the book features hundreds of photos of jewelry, tomb paintings, amulets, papyrus scrolls, and other artwork that will delight the eye as well as the mind.
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Between Worlds: Folktales of Britain and Ireland

Price: $18.99

Publisher: Candlewick : October 2019

Seller ID: 179320

ISBN-13: 9781536209419

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

Ancient, rich, and strange, these magical and eerie tales from across Britain and Ireland have been passed down from generation to generation. A handsome, cocky young man is swept up by a dark horseman and cast into a life-or-death adventure. A pair of green children emerge from a remote hollow and struggle to adapt to a strange new land. A dauntless farm girl finds that her fearlessness earns her a surprising reward. Dark but often funny, lyrical yet earthy, the folktales presented here have influenced our landscape and culture. This definitive collection of forty-eight stories, retold by mas...
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Celtic Tales: Fairy Tales and Stories of Enchantment from Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales

Price: $22.95

Publisher: Chronicle Books : August 2016

Seller ID: 190235

ISBN-13: 9781452151755

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

"It's an absorbing introduction to the lore of Albion, but readers will also enjoy teasing out similarities between these tales and more familiar ones." -- Publishers Weekly Perilous quests, true love, and animals that talk: The traditional stories of Ireland, Scotland, Brittany, and Wales transport us to the fantastical world of Celtic folklore. - Features 16 stores that were translated and transcribed by folklorists in the late 19th and 20th centuries that focus on themes such as Tricksters, The Sea, Quests, and Romance - These timeless tales brim with wit and magic, and each one is brought...
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Cinderella: A Casebook

Price: $7.77

Publisher: Methuen : May 1983

Seller ID: 160712

ISBN-13: 9780939544158

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jangar: The Heroic Epic of the Kalmyk Nomads

Price: $19.95

Publisher: University of California Press : January 2023

Seller ID: 190428

ISBN-13: 9780520344723

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Mystic Places (Mysteries of the Unknown)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Time Life Books Inc : January 1987

Seller ID: 189926

ISBN-13: 9780809463121

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Illustrated Encyclopedia Of World Mythology

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Anness

Seller ID: 193515

ISBN-13: 9781782143376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Nibelungenlied: Prose Translation (Penguin Classics)

Price: $17.00

Publisher: Penguin Classics : April 1965

Seller ID: 161628

ISBN-13: 9780140441376

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

A story of guile, treachery, loyalty and desperate courage This great German epic poem of murder and revenge recounts with particular strength and directness the progress of Siegfried's love for the peerless Kriemhild, the wedding of Gunther - her brother - and Brunhild, the quarrel between the two queens, Hagen's treacherous murder of Siegfried, and Kriemhild's eventual triumph. Composed nearly eight hundred years ago by an unnamed poet, the Nibelungenlied is the principal literary expression of those heroic legends of which Richard Wagner made such free use in The Ring. A. T. Hatto's transla...
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The Poetic Edda (Oxford World's Classics)

Price: $16.95

Publisher: Oxford University Press : September 2014

Seller ID: 192071

ISBN-13: 9780199675340

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

'She sees, coming up a second time, Earth from the ocean, eternally green;the waterfalls plunge, an eagle soars above them, over the mountain hunting fish.' After the terrible conflagration of Ragnarok, the earth rises serenely again from the ocean, and life is renewed. The Poetic Edda begins with The Seeress's Prophecy which recounts the creation of the world, and looks forward to its destruction and rebirth. In this great collection of Norse-Icelandic mythological and heroic poetry, the exploits of gods and humans are related. The one-eyed Odin, red-bearded Thor, Loki the trickster, the love...
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The UFO Phenomenon (Mysteries of the Unknown)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Time Life Books Inc : January 1987

Seller ID: 189923

ISBN-13: 9780809463244

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Olympians (The Entities Trilogy) (The Entities Trilogy Series)

By: (editor), Joanne H. Stroud

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Dallas Inst Humanities & Culture : January 1995

Seller ID: 194746

ISBN-13: 9780911005288

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

African American Folktales: Stories from Black Traditions in the New World (The Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)

By: Abrahams, Roger

Price: $22.00

Publisher: Pantheon : January 1999

Seller ID: 193733

ISBN-13: 9780375705397

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

Full of life, wisdom, and humor, these tales range from the earthy comedy of tricksters to accounts of how the world was created and got to be the way it is to moral fables that tell of encounters between masters and slaves. They include stories set down in nineteenth-century travelers' reports and plantation journals, tales gathered by collectors such as Joel Chandler Harris and Zora Neale Hurston, and narratives tape-recorded by Roger Abrahams himself during extensive expeditions throughout the American South and the Caribbean. With black-and-white illustrations throughoutPart of the Pantheo...
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Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology

By: Andrews, Tamra

Price: $45.50

Publisher: ABC-CLIO : October 2000

Seller ID: 194745

ISBN-13: 9781576070369

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Now, for the first time, the magic properties and uses of food by both mortals and immortals as represented in the world's myths and legends are brought together and explained in Nectar and Ambrosia. This A-Z volume is filled with an abundance of exotic lore and legend.

Love in Color: Mythical Tales from Around the World, Retold

By: Babalola, Bolu

Price: $18.99

Publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks : April 2022

Seller ID: 183947

ISBN-13: 9780063078505

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

The Mistress of the Copper Mountain and Other Tales

By: Bazhov, P. P.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Tehnosphera : January 1992

Seller ID: 155988

ISBN: B000JREV7C

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Kumulipo: A Hawaiian Creation Chant

By: Beckwith, Martha Warren

Price: $13.00

Publisher: University of Hawaii Press : July 2000

Seller ID: 165665

ISBN-13: 9780824807719

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Kumulipo is the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its 2000 lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family's divine origin and tracing the family history from the beginning of the world.
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