Folclore, mitos y leyendas

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  • Clever Folk
    Ruthilde Kronberg
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    59,33 €

  • Folk Wisdom and Mother Wit
    Arvilla Payne-Jackson / John Lee
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    122,02 €

  • The Classic Tales
    Ellen Frankel
    A retelling of 300 Jewish stories spanning 4,000 years and three continents. Drawing on biblical, talmudic, and hasidic tales, the author creates a classic_a map resource book for the brightest jewels in the vast treasure chest of Jewish lore. Six useful indexes, chronological table of contents, glossary, and bibliography. ...
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    87,07 €

  • Stray Tales of the Big Bend
    Elton Miles
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    15,84 €

  • From Ritual to Romance
    Jessie L. Weston / Jessie LWeston
    Acknowledged by T. S. Eliot as crucial to understanding 'The Waste Land,' Jessie Weston’s book has continued to attract readers interested in ancient religion, myth, and especially Arthurian legend. Weston examines the saga of the Grail, which, in many versions, begins when the wounded king of a famished land sees a procession of objects including a bleeding lance and a bejewel...
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    54,28 €

  • Tom Thumb
    Margaret MacDonald
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    62,78 €

  • Holy Grail
    Arthur Edward Waite
    ''The Holy Grail: The Galahad Quest in the Arthurian Literature'' by Arthur Edward Waite is a comprehensive exploration of the legend of the Holy Grail in Arthurian literature. The book delves into the origins of the myth, tracing its roots back to ancient Celtic and Christian traditions. Waite examines the various versions of the Grail story, including the medieval French roma...
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    55,64 €

  • In the Wake of the Goddesses
    Tikva Frymer-Kensky
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    16,69 €

  • The Faces of the Gods
    Leslie G. Desmangles / Leslie GDesmangles
    Vodou, the folk religion of Haiti, is a by-product of the contact between Roman Catholicism and African and Amerindian traditional religions. In this book, Leslie Desmangles analyzes the mythology and rituals of Vodou, focusing particularly on the inclusion of West African and European elements in Vodouisants’ beliefs and practices.Desmangles sees Vodou not simply as a graftin...
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    61,15 €

  • The Snow Lion’s Turquoise Mane
    Lama Surya Das
    Authentic Buddhist teaching tales from the Hidden Kingdom of Tibet--including many never before translated into English. 'Pure Dharma! Intoxicating!'--John Giorno ...
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    21,93 €

  • Winged Serpent
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    19,14 €

  • A Knock At The Door
    George Shannon
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    62,78 €

  • Performance, Culture, and Identity
    Elizabeth Fine / Jean Haskell
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    95,18 €

  • Sitting at the Feet of the Past
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    121,77 €

  • Grandmothers of The Light
    Paula Gunn Allen
    In Grandmothers of the Light, an extraordinary collection of goddess stories from native American civilizations across the continent, Paula Gunn Allen shares myths that have guided female shamans toward an understanding of the sacred for centuries. ...
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    18,73 €

  • The Ghost & I
    This anthology of audience participation stories is the next in a series of books that began with the publication of Joining In. Jennifer Justice, a marvelous storyteller, combines her keen editorial ability with her intimate story sense to bring us into the realm of ghostly humor and fright. The Ghost & I features 16 tales by awardwinners Joe Bruchac, Rafe Martin, Heather Fore...
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    12,27 €

  • Metamorphosis in Greek Myths
    P. M. C. Forbes Irving / P. M. Forbes-Irving / PMCForbes Irving / PMForbes-Irving
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    117,61 €

  • Myth, Religion, and Mother Right
    Johann Jakob Bachofen / Ralph Manheim
    The Swiss thinker J. J. Bachofen is most often connected with his theory of matriarchy, or 'mother right,' but that concept is only a small part of his contribution to our understanding of cultural history. This book includes an autobiographical essay and selections from An Essay on Ancient Mortuary Symbolism, Mother Right, and The Myth of Tanaquil. ? ...
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    71,81 €

  • Exploring Alamo Legends
    Wallace Chariton / Wallace OChariton
    After years of researching all available Alamo records, including primary letters and accounts by participants, government documents from the period, newspaper articles, diary entries, and even receipts, Wallace O. Chariton has answered these and many more of the perplexing Alamo questions. No punches are pulled in this hard hitting investigation. Some of the answers presented ...
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    17,10 €

  • Unsolved Texas Mysteries
    Charlie Eckhardt / Kevin Young / Wallace O. Chariton / Wallace OChariton
    For about as long as there has been a Texas there have been Texas mysteries, and many of them remain unsolved. What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo? Does a ghost actually haunt the state capitol in Austin? Did the U.S. Army secretly bury hundreds of guns in North Texas after WWII? Was John Wilkes Booth killed or did he escape and flee to Central Texas? The autho...
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    14,39 €

  • Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity
    Samuel Sharpe
    Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity is a book written by Samuel Sharpe that explores the connections and similarities between ancient Egyptian mythology and early Christianity in Egypt. The book delves into the religious beliefs and practices of ancient Egypt, including the worship of gods such as Ra, Osiris, and Isis, and how these beliefs influenced the development o...
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    26,35 €

  • Wisdom of the Ancients
    Francis Bacon
    Wisdom of the Ancients is a book written by the renowned philosopher and statesman Francis Bacon. It is a collection of ancient myths and fables from various cultures, including Greek, Roman, and Egyptian. Bacon uses these stories to illustrate his philosophical ideas and teachings, drawing parallels between the ancient wisdom and contemporary knowledge. The book covers a wide ...
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    23,96 €

  • Virginia Folk Legends
    Thomas E Barden
    What do devil dogs, witches, haunted houses, Daniel Boone, Railroad Bill, 'Justice John' Crutchfield, and lost silver mines have in common? All are among the subjects included in the vast collection of legends gathered between 1937 and 1942 by the field workers of the Virginia Writers Project of the WPA. For decades following the end of the project, these stories lay untouched ...
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    20,63 €

  • Old Age in Myth and Symbol
    Jennifer McLerran / Patrick McKee
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    89,16 €

  • Eleusis
    Carl Kerényi / Ralph Manheim
    The Sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens, was the center of a religious cult that endured for nearly two thousand years and whose initiates came from all parts of the civilized world. Looking at the tendency to 'see visions,' C. Kerenyi examines the Mysteries of Eleusis from the standpoint not only of Greek myth but also of human nature. Kerenyi holds that the yearly autumnal 'mys...
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    56,92 €

  • A Tale Type and Motif Index of Early U.S. Almanacs
    J. Michael Stitt / JMichael Stitt / Robert K. Dodge / Robert KDodge
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    105,23 €

  • Images and Symbols
    Mircea Eliade / Philip Mairet
    Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled th...
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    46,29 €

  • Mother Wit from the Laughing Barrel
    Alan Dundes
    Exploring the scope, diversity, and vitality of black culture, here is a fascinating collection of more than sixty articles from some of the most perceptive and authoritative commentators upon the black experience—Zora Neale Hurston, J. Mason Brewer, Sterling A. Brown, Eldridge Cleaver, Willis Laurence James, John Lovell Jr., Langston Hughes, Charles W. Chesnutt, Alan Lomax, Ra...
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    48,29 €

  • In Quest of the Hero
    Alan Dundes / Fitzroy Richard Somerset Raglan / Otto Rank
    In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank’s Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan’s The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes’s fascinating contemporary inquiry, 'The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus.' Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or leg...
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    44,53 €

  • The Wisdom of the Serpent
    Joseph Lewis Henderson / Maud Oakes
    The tribal initiation of the shaman, the archetype of the serpent, exemplifies the death of the self and a rebirth into transcendent life. This book traces the images of spiritual initiation in religious rituals and myths of resurrection, poems and epics, cycles of nature, and art and dreaming. It dramatizes the metamorphosis from a common experience of death’s inevitability in...
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    67,91 €


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