Category: Mythology/Folklore

A treasury of American folklore: Our customs, beliefs, and traditions

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books : January 1994

Seller ID: 37884

ISBN-13: 9781566193702

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Favorite North American Indian Legends (Dover Children's Thrift Classics)

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Dover Publications : July 1994

Seller ID: 28146

ISBN-13: 9780486278223

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Here is a treasury of charming tales brimming with the humor, whimsy and imagination characteristic of Native American folklore. Specially chosen from children, the stories include an Algonquin tale of how Glooskap conquered the Great Bull-Frog, and how pollywogs, crabs, leeches, and other water creatures were created; "The Meeting of the Wild Animals," a Tsimshian myth recounting how the four seasons came into being and why all animals are afraid of the porcupine; "The Bear Man," a Cherokee legend about a hunter who lived with her prey; and "The Man Who Married the Moon," a Pueblo tale of a g...
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Grimm's Fairy Tales

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Easton Press : January 1980

Seller ID: 77875

ISBN: B000HVTFJE

Binding: Novelty

Condition: Used - Like New

Pristine.
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Legends of the World

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books : January 1994

Seller ID: 37853

ISBN-13: 9781566194624

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Mythologies by W.B.Yeats

Price: $125.00

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan : July 2005

Seller ID: 18151

ISBN-13: 9781403945051

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Inscribed by Editors
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Once Upon a Time: A Treasury of Modern Fairy Tales

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Del Rey : October 1991

Seller ID: 76766

ISBN-13: 9780345362636

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Phantom Army of the Civil War and Other Southern Ghost Stories

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Castle Books / Book Sales, Inc. : January 2000

Seller ID: 76760

ISBN: 039864012874

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The 101 Most Influential People Who Never Lived

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Bristol Park Books, Inc. : January 1885

Seller ID: 64857

ISBN-13: 9780884864851

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The World of Myth: An Anthology

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Oxford University Press : January 1991

Seller ID: 37888

ISBN-13: 9780195074758

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Hercules, Zeus, Thor, Gilgamesh--these are the figures that leap to mind when we think of myth. But to David Leeming, myths are more than stories of deities and fantastic beings from non-Christian cultures. Myth is at once the most particular and the most universal feature of civilization, representing common concerns that each society voices in its own idiom. Whether an Egyptian story of creation or the big-bang theory of modern physics, myth is metaphor, mirroring our deepest sense of ourselves in relation to existence itself. Now, in The World of Myth, Leeming provides a sweeping anthology ...
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Treasury of North American Folk Tales

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Book Of The Month Club : January 1998

Seller ID: 20621

ISBN-13: 9780965057431

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

The Troll With No Heart in His Body: And Other Tales of Trolls from Norway

By: Asbjornsen, Peter Christen,Moe, Jorgen Engebretsen

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt : January 1999

Seller ID: 64875

ISBN-13: 9780395913710

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

As tall as trees and as ancient and rugged as the Norwegian landscape from which they come, trolls are some of lore's most fascinating and varied creatures. Some live under bridges, others deep inside caves. They can carry their heads under their arms or hide their hearts inside wells. They can walk across oceans and fly over mountains. Trees and shrubs may grow from their heads, and their noses can be long enough to stir soup. There are troll hags, troll daughters, and elderly, shrunken trolls. Old or young, they are quarrelsome, ugly, and boastful, and they love to trick princesses and child...
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Great American Folklore: Legends, Tales, Ballads, and Superstitions from All Across America (A Touchstone book)

By: Battle, Kemp P.

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Touchstone Books : August 1989

Seller ID: 28150

ISBN-13: 9780671682811

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

The Cult of the Black Virgin

By: Begg, Ean

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Penguin Group USA Inc. : December 1997

Seller ID: 64871

ISBN-13: 9780140195101

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

This work examines why over 400 of the world's images for the Madonna are black or dark and why they
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The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination

By: Boorstin, Daniel J.

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Random House : September 1992

Seller ID: 36358

ISBN-13: 9780394543956

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Like New

Many Moons: Myth and Magic, Fact and Fantasy of Our Nearest Heavenly Body

By: Brueton, Diana

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Fireside : October 1992

Seller ID: 74128

ISBN-13: 9780671768010

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Fable (Courage Classics) (v. 1)

By: Bulfinch, Thomas

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Courage Books : September 1990

Seller ID: 50277

ISBN-13: 9780894718816

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

The classic Greek and Roman mythology, evoking struggles of life, death, love and war.
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Native American Stories (Myths and Legends)

By: Caduto, Michael J.,Bruchac, Joseph

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing : March 1991

Seller ID: 64872

ISBN-13: 9781555910945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

Here is a collection of myths drawn from the native cultures of North America--from the Inuit in the north to the Zuni, Hopi, and Cherokee in the south.
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The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony

By: Calasso, Roberto

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. : January 1993

Seller ID: 64879

ISBN-13: 9780394581545

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Very Good

Presenting the stories of Zeus and Europa, Theseus and Ariadne, the birth of Athens and the fall of Troy, in all their variants, Calasso also uncovers the distant origins of secrets and tragedy, virginity, and rape. "A perfect work like no other. (Calasso) has re-created . . . the morning of our world."--Gore Vidal. 15 engravings.

"From the Trade Paperback edition."
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The Power of Myth

By: Campbell, Joseph,Moyers, Bill

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Doubleday : May 1988

Seller ID: 50287

ISBN-13: 9780385247740

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

The Power Of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminient scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people. To him, mythology was the "song of the universe, the music of the spheres." With Bill Moyers, one of America's most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaing interviewer, The Power Of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliantcombination of intelligence and wit.
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Legends of the World

By: Cavendish, Richard

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Barnes Noble Books : January 1989

Seller ID: 76765

ISBN-13: 9781566198431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Very Good

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Category: Mythology/Folklore