Category: Mythology Folk Tales

By Conference on Black Literatures (1986 University of Queensland), Emmanuel S. Nelson

ISBN-10: 085575186X

ISBN-13: 9780855751869

By Bill Ellis

ISBN-10: 0813121701

ISBN-13: 9780813121703

Raising the Devil finds how the Christian Pentecostal flow, right-wing conspiracy theories, and an opportunistic media became grassroots folks traditions into the Satanism scare of the Eighties. in the course of the mid-twentieth century, satan worship used to be obvious as only an remoted perform of medieval occasions. yet by way of the early Nineteen Eighties, many influential specialists in scientific drugs and in legislations enforcement have been proclaiming that satanic cults have been frequent and hazardous. by way of studying the wider context for alleged "cult" task, invoice Ellis demonstrates how similar to modern Satanism emerged through the Nineteen Seventies. Blaming a variety of psychological and actual health problems on in-dwelling demons, a faction of the Pentecostal flow turned confident that their presents of the spirit have been being adverse by means of satanic actions. They attributed those actions to a "cult" that was once the evil dual of actual Christianity. In many of the instances Ellis considers, universal people ideals and rituals have been misunderstood as facts of satan worship. In others, narratives and rituals themselves have been used to strive against satanic forces. because the media stumbled on such tales increasingly more beautiful, any job with even remotely occult overtones used to be demonized to be able to healthy a version of absolute stable confronting evil. Ellis's wide-ranging research covers ouija forums, livestock mutilation, graveyard desecration, and "diabolical medicine"―the psychiatric community's model of exorcism. He deals a balanced view of contentious matters comparable to demonic ownership, satanic ritual abuse, and the tales of confessing "ex-Satanists." A proficient folklorist, Ellis seeks to navigate a center street during this conversation, and his insights into casual non secular traditions make clear how identical to Satanism either defined and created deviant habit.

By Sterling Houston

ISBN-10: 1417593628

ISBN-13: 9781417593620

ISBN-10: 157441187X

ISBN-13: 9781574411874

Sterling Houston is an cutting edge African American author whose performs are identified for biting social remark mixed with eye-popping theatricality. regardless of many winning productions, his paintings hasn't ever sooner than been commonly on hand in print. The 4 performs during this assortment characterize Houston’s complete variety of subject matters and types. excessive Yello Rose deflates the Alamo delusion by way of casting the heroes’ components solely with ladies. Isis in Nubia is a love tale that units the Isis/Osiris fantasy in West Africa. Black Lily and White Lily is a practical family drama exploring racial tensions. Miranda Rites returns to Houston’s widely farcical sort, enacting Martha Mitchell’s final days in a sanatorium, the place she hallucinates approximately Marilyn Monroe and Dorothy Dandridge, and is escorted to the underworld by means of Carmen Miranda.** [C:\Users\Microsoft\Documents\Calibre Library]

By Dr. Gerald Vizenor Ph.D

ISBN-10: 0585153574

ISBN-13: 9780585153575

ISBN-10: 0806125187

ISBN-13: 9780806125183

The Anishinaabe, another way named the Ojibwe or Chippewa, are well-known for his or her lyric songs and tales, fairly as a result of their compassionate trickster, naanabozbo, and the therapeutic rituals nonetheless practiced at the present time within the society of the Midewiwin. The poems and stories, interpreted and reexpressed right here by means of the celebrated Anishinaabe writer Gerald Vizenor, have been first transcribed greater than a century in the past by way of pioneering ethnographer Frances Densmore and Theodore Hudson Beaulieu, a newspaper editor at the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota.This great anthology, illustrated with tribal pictomyths and helpfully annotated, contains translations and a thesaurus of the Anishinaabe phrases within which the poems and tales initially have been spoken.

By Amy Shuman

ISBN-10: 0521328462

ISBN-13: 9780521328463

In response to extensive fieldwork in an city American junior highschool, this unique examine explores the connection among oral and written texts in daily life through analysing tellings and retellings of neighborhood occasions, diaries, writings and discussions.

By Joseph Campbell

ISBN-10: 0140043055

ISBN-13: 9780140043051

ISBN-10: 0140194428

ISBN-13: 9780140194425

ISBN-10: 0670002992

ISBN-13: 9780670002993

ISBN-10: 1439508941

ISBN-13: 9781439508947

A part of a sequence of 4 books that appears at global mythologies. This ebook examines japanese mythology because it built into the designated religions of Egypt, India, China and Japan.

By Soula Mitakidou, Anthony L. Manna, Melpomeni Kanatsouli

ISBN-10: 1563089084

ISBN-13: 9781563089084

Whereas Greek myths are popular and amply represented, only a few Greek folktales were released in English. Now those acclaimed authors make 20 desirable folktales obtainable to readers outdoors of Greece. Newly translated and retold, the tales variety from the profound to the lighthearted, the haunting to the hilarious, and the non secular to the secular. a number of accompanying images and drawings illustrate elements of Greek lifestyles and conventional folklore motifs. ideal for storytimes and read-alouds, the stories will entice either old and young.

By Idries Shah

ISBN-10: 0863040217

ISBN-13: 9780863040214

This present day we discover him in a high-level physics file, illustrating phenomena that cannot be defined in traditional technical phrases. He looks in psychology textbooks, illuminating the workings of the brain in a fashion no ordinary clarification can.

In 3 definitive volumes (The Exploits of the Incomparable Mulla Nasrudin, The Pleasantries of the impressive Mulla Nasrudin and The Subtleties of the Inimitable Mulla Nasrudin) Idries Shah takes us to the very center of this mysterious mentor, the Mulla Nasrudin. Skillful modern retellings of enormous quantities of gathered tales and sayings convey the unmistakable - usually backhanded - knowledge, wit and style of the undying jokester to lifestyles.

The Mulla and his tales seem in literature and oral traditions from the center East to Greece, Russia, France - even China. many countries declare Nasrudin as a local son, yet not anyone quite is familiar with who he used to be or the place he got here from.

According to a legend relationship from not less than the thirteenth century, Nasrudin used to be snatched as a schoolboy from the clutches of the "Old Villain" - the crude procedure of inspiration that ensnares guy - to hold in the course of the a while the message of ways to flee. He used to be selected simply because he can make humans chuckle, and humor has a fashion of slipping in the course of the cracks of the main inflexible pondering behavior.

Acclaimed as funny masterpieces, as collections of the best jokes, as worthy present books, and for hundreds and hundreds "enchanted tales", this folklore figure's antics have additionally been divined as "mirroring the antics of the mind". The jokes are, as Idries Shah notes, "perfectly designed versions for separating and maintaining distortions of the brain which so usually go for affordable behavior". hence they've got a double use: while the jokes were loved, their mental value starts off to sink in.

In truth, for lots of centuries they've been studied in Sufi circles for his or her hidden knowledge. they're used as instructing routines, partially to momentarily "freeze" occasions within which states of brain may be famous. the foremost to the philosophic value of the Nasrudin jokes is given in Idries Shah's ebook "The Sufis" and an entire procedure of mystical education established upon them was once defined within the Hibbert magazine.

In those pleasant volumes, Shah not just provides the Mulla a formal motor vehicle for our occasions, he proves that the centuries-old tales and quips of Nasrudin are nonetheless a few of the funniest jokes on the planet.

By Donna M. Lanclos

ISBN-10: 081353321X

ISBN-13: 9780813533216

By F Albert Cotton; et al

ISBN-10: 038715731X

ISBN-13: 9780387157313

ISBN-10: 354015731X

ISBN-13: 9783540157311

Content material: Metal-metal a number of bonds in dinuclear clusters / F.A. Cotton, R.A. Walton -- advancements in transition steel cluster chemistry / G. Schmid -- Spectroscopic homes of the quasi one-dimensional tetracyanoplatinate (II) compounds / G. Gilemann, H. Yersin