Category: Mythology Folk Tales

By Sir J. G. Frazer

ISBN-10: 0199266964

ISBN-13: 9780199266968

ISBN-10: 1429421835

ISBN-13: 9781429421836

This can be a absolutely annotated variation of chosen letters by means of (and every now and then to) Sir J. G. Frazer (1854-1941), the eminent anthropologist, classicist, and historian of faith. Frazer was once learn through almost each person operating in these fields within the first 3rd of the 20th century. His nice paintings, The Golden Bough, provided a grand imaginative and prescient of humanity's psychological and non secular evolution--from useless makes an attempt to compel the gods to do our bidding (which Frazer referred to as magic) via both useless makes an attempt to propitiate the gods via prayer and sacrifice (his characterization of faith) to rationality and technological know-how. His richly different correspondence with well-known figures resembling Edmund Gosse, A. E. Housman, and Bronislaw Malinowski, between others, bargains an remarkable perception into British highbrow lifetime of the time, and in addition throws mild upon the composition of The Golden Bough itself.

By Albert Camus

ISBN-10: 884524654X

ISBN-13: 9788845246548

By Leo Frobenius

By Bruno Bettelheim

ISBN-10: 0307739635

ISBN-13: 9780307739636

Bruno Bettelheim used to be one of many nice baby psychologists of the 20 th century and maybe none of his books has been extra influential than this revelatory learn of fairy stories and their common value in knowing youth development.Analyzing a variety of conventional tales, from the stories of Sindbad to “The 3 Little Pigs,” “Hansel and Gretel,” and “The dozing Beauty,” Bettelheim exhibits how the fantastical, occasionally merciless, yet constantly deeply major narrative strands of the vintage fairy stories can relief in our best human job, that of discovering that means for one’s existence.

By Christine Hugh-Jones

ISBN-10: 0511558031

ISBN-13: 9780511558030

ISBN-10: 0521225442

ISBN-13: 9780521225441

ISBN-10: 0521358892

ISBN-13: 9780521358897

Due to the fact that its first ebook in 1979, this ebook, including its spouse quantity, The Palm and the Pleiades by way of Stephen Hugh-Jones, has turn into proven as 'the so much efficient and complicated ethnography so far of any South American tropical woodland humans' (The instances larger schooling Supplement). either at the moment are on hand for the 1st time in paperback. The publication is an built-in account of a Northwest Amazonian society, which elucidates the structural types that underlie and unify the domain names of kinship, faith, politics and economics. those dynamic types are outfitted from a wealthy corpus of ethnographic facts drawn from huge box study, and are built in this type of means that, so far as attainable, they reproduce an Indian idea of society. along with improving anthropological figuring out of a desirable tradition quarter, the book's hugely unique method makes it a huge contribution to the final idea of social and cultural buildings.

By Joseph A. McCullough, Peter Dennis

ISBN-10: 1780967306

ISBN-13: 9781780967301

From legend and mythology to The Hobbit and A online game of Thrones, the dragon is a perennial favourite within the myth genre.

With its fiery breath, scaly armour, and baleful, malevolent stare, the dragon turned the final word image of evil and corruption in eu folklore and mythology. frequently serving as a stand-in for devil, or the ability of evil gods, dragons unfold loss of life and hopelessness through the land. in basic terms heroes of unusual valour, courageousness, and purity may well wish to conflict those monsters and emerge positive. those who did turned legends. They grew to become dragonslayers. The record of dragonslayers is small, however it is full of nice and mythical names. Hercules, Beowulf, Cuchulain, Sigfried, Lancelot, and Saint George all battled to the loss of life with dragons. different heroes comparable to the Danish King Frotho, the French Saint Mercurialis, the Polish champion Krak, and the Russian warrior Dobrynya Nikitch will be much less renowned to western readers, but in addition fought and defeated dragons. This publication will retell the best legends of this choose staff of warriors, whereas studying the parable of the dragonslayer in a old, mythological, or even theological context.

By Alan S. Kaye

ISBN-10: 9027933243

ISBN-13: 9789027933249

By Galit Hasan-Rokem

ISBN-10: 0520234537

ISBN-13: 9780520234536

ISBN-10: 0585466009

ISBN-13: 9780585466002

During this full of life and intellectually attractive publication, Galit Hasan-Rokem exhibits that faith is formed not just within the halls of theological disputation and associations of divine learn, but in addition in traditional occasions of lifestyle. universal facets of human family members provide a huge resource for the symbols of non secular texts and rituals of past due old Judaism in addition to its companion in narrative dialogues, early Christianity, Hasan-Rokem argues. targeting the "neighborhood" of the Galilee that's the birthplace of many significant spiritual and cultural advancements, this booklet brings to lifestyles the riddles, parables, and folktales handed down in Rabbinic tales from the 1st half the 1st millennium of the typical period.

By Rudyard Kipling

ISBN-10: 1599151723

ISBN-13: 9781599151724

Fanciful causes, that pride either old and young, of ways a few curious issues got here to be, together with tales of ways the elephant bought his trunk, how the camel bought his hump, and the way the alphabet used to be invented. appropriate for a long time 6 and up.

By Kira Van Deusen

ISBN-10: 0773521550

ISBN-13: 9780773521551