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Have you ever wondered how the constellations got their names? Or wanted to know the stories of the gods and heroes immortalised in the night sky? In Legends of the...

Arthur Rackham's artworks bring a distinctive vein of dark humour to the many classic works he graced in the Golden Age of Illustration. His energetic, dense creations are perfectly suited...

The book titled Encyclopedia of Superstition by the author Carole Potter. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled More Mysterious Wales by the author Chris Barber. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The book titled The Masks of God: Primitive Mythology by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

The renowned master of mythology is at his warm, accessible, and brilliant best in this illustrated collection of thirteen lectures covering mythological development around the world.

'Every bit as gripping as it is horrifying' Ian Rankin 'So striking... like seeing our last few years through a distorted fever-dream' Lucy Caldwell 'A bleeding, sweating story' Guardian 'A...

'I loved Goddess with a Thousand Faces . Fascinating, fun and thoughtful and enlightening' JENNIFER SAINT 'A beautiful weave of history, myth and storytelling by one of our most exciting...

From Arthurian legend to tales of ancient China, horses have traversed the world alongside humans for centuries, and their heroic adventures are gathered here in this one-of-a-kind little encyclopedia ....

Atlantis, the island continent that vanished under the sea, is one of the most haunting themes of legend. It has preoccupied thinkers for more than two thousand years, from Plato...

' Rebecca meets The Secret History . Gloriously dark, gloriously gothic ' Sara Collins, Costa First Novel Award-winning author of The Confessions of Frannie Langton For 150 years, Caldonbrae Hall...

Sir James George Frazer (1854-1941) caught the popular imagination with his vast and enterprising comparative study of the beliefs and institutions of mankind, which in its third edition numbered 12...

The book titled The Choking Doberman and Other 'New' Urban Legends by the author Jan Harold Brunvand. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this...

In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a...

This collection of fourteen reimagined Grimm's fairy tales from award-winning author Mark Russell offers a biting new perspective while proving the classics never go out of style. In the two...

The Masks of God is the summation of Joseph Campbell's lifelong study of the origins and function of myth. In volume 3 of the series, Occidental Mythology , Campbell examines...

A Change of Tongue is about belonging - to a family, a tribe, a nation, a continent. It is about having a place, losing it, finding another place. As part...

Why are owls regarded either as wise or as harbingers of doom? What gave rise to the fanciful belief that storks bring babies? Why is the eagle associated with victory...

From the lazy, fiddling grasshopper to the sneaky Big Bad Wolf, children's stories and fables enchant us with their portrayals of animals who act like people. But the comparisons run...

The book titled Good Luck Mr.Gorsky: Exploring Urban Myths by the author R. Pollock. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Burkhard Bilger's beautifully written, wonderfully funny and movingly nostalgic book explores the surviving (and often dying) folk traditions of the American South, from the eating of squirrel brains in Kentucky,...

' A deliciously sexy paranormal romance set in the Black South' Demi Winters, bestselling author of The Ashen Series 'With enough romantic tension to make Hell itself look like tundra,...

This work offers an account of the heroes and villains, legends and foibles of the four nations that inhabit the British Isles. Raphael Samuel is interested by the face that...

Compiled from GL Apperson's original research of nearly three thousand works dating as far back as the 12th century and earlier, and built upon the foundations of the great Oxford...

People have been telling fairy tales to their children for hundreds of years. And for almost as long, people have been rewriting those fairy tales - to help their children...

This labyrinthine and extraordinary book, first published fifty years ago, was the outcome of Graves's vast reading and curious research into strange territories of folklore, mythology, religion and magic. Erudite...

'A beautifully written novel imbued with empathy, spirits and magic' Scottish Daily Mail Spring, 1985. Phoebe MacDonald's world is falling apart. After losing her parents in a tragic house fire,...

The Holy Grail is an image familiar to us all as an almost unattainable, infinitely desirable goal. The idea has passed into everyday speech and the legends behind it are...

Hawaii -- a place all the world knows as paradise and one of the most remote places on earth -- may hold a clue for all humanity during our very...

The book titled Ancient Mysteries of Britain by the author Janet Bord. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

A fascinating and colourful social history of the nighttime. 'A wonderful revelation of a vanished age of darkness' SPECTATOR 'Fascinating' SUNDAY TIMES 'A splendid book ... great entertainment' Sir Patrick...

The book titled Gods and Goddesses by the author Hallam Elizabeth. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Step into a world of enchantment with this captivating collection of prose and poetry, fact and fiction on myth and magic, folklore and faery. Bedside Companion to Folklore and Magic...

The book titled It Just Lies There from the Beginning: Aboriginal Stories and Poems by the author Marjorie Bil Bil. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more...

The ancient near east was the cradle of the unconscious mind, where humanity's creative imagination found full expression for the first time. It was also where the modern conscious ego,...

The main characteristics of ancient Egyptian religion were animism, fetishism and magic. The myriad deities worshipped by the ancient Egyptians fell into three main categories: local gods, the inanimate objects...

Describes the origins and purpose of mummification, clears up misconceptions about mummies, and looks at recent scientific studies.

The book titled Who Killed Cock Robin? by the author Rodney McRae. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

Ronald Hayman's brilliant portrayal of the tormented man and the inspired writerguarantees its status as the classic account of Kafka's life.Hayman shows how the unique writings of this extraordinary man...

The proverbs selected for this reference book, intended for anyone who delights in and studies words, all have a tale to tell. Etymologies go back to the earliest origins, though...

Alan Alford is confirmed as a great discoverer. Now, the bestselling author of GODS OF THE NEW MILLENNIUM and THE PHOENIX SOLUTION has decoded the sacred secrets of the world's...

The book titled Celtic Myths and Beliefs by the author Unknown. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

For centuries, the spiritual life of the Australian Aborigines was concealed behind a veil of misunderstanding and prejudice. In this work, Cowan recounts some of the major myths and analyzes...

'- DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE KIDS WHO FOUND A FERRARI BURIED IN THEIR GARDEN? - WHAT ABOUT THE MAN WHO SUED SATAN? - DO YOU KNOW THE LEGEND OF...