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Bollingen Series #84: Myth, Religion, and Mother Right: Selected Writings of J.J. Bachofen by J J Bachofen Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Folk Group and Foklore Genres: An Introduction by Elliott Oring Publisher Comments Oring's introductory text consists of a series of essays by leading scholars that give the student a solid sense of major folklore topics and interpretive techniques.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Brothers' Grimm and Folktale by James M Mcglathery Publisher Comments 'Offers a diverse overview of contemporary folktale scholarship but attests to the significance and scope of the Grimms' work....An excellent overview to current research on the Grimm folktales and evidence of the value of observing significant events in... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Women Who Run with the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype by Clarissa Pinkola Estes Publisher Comments "WOMEN WHO RUN WITH THE WOLVES isn't just another book. It is a gift of profound insight, wisdom, and love. An oracle from one who knows." Alice Walker Within every woman there is a wild and natural creature, a powerful force, filled with good... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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The World of the Druids by Miranda Green Synopsis Were the Druids barbaric head-hunters involved in human sacrifice? Or were they wise and benevolent healers who could interpret omens and predict the future? This account covers all aspects of history surrounding the Druids, from archaeological evidence... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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The return of the mother by Andrew Harvey Publisher Comments Adapted from a series of lectures on the historical basis and current resurgence of the sacred feminine, given by Andrew Harvey at the California Institute of Integral Studies in spring 1994, The Return of the Mother is a profound journey into the heart... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Great Tales of Jewish Fantasy and the Occult: The Dybbuk and Thirty Other Classic Stories by Joachim Neugroschel Publisher Comments Brings together a dazzling variety of writers and the most outstanding works of Jewish imagination and folklore.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $14.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mythology and You by Donna Rosenberg Publisher Comments Apollo, Zeus, Athena, Pandora, Midas, Pygmalion, Daedalus and Icarus, and many more are contained within "Mythology and You. These tales reveal many universal truths about historical human behavior and have great relevance in today's world.... (read more) List Price $25.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Civil War Treasury of Tales, Legends and Folklore by B A Botkin Publisher Comments This book contains a rich sampling of Civil War storytelling of all types -- personal narratives, anecdotes, hero tales, jests, strange tales, and fables. Culled from a wide variety of contemporary sources -- letters, diaries, newspapers, periodicals... (read more) List Price $9.98 Your price: $4.95 Used - Hardcover
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Elijah's Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales by Howard Schwartz Publisher Comments With this collection, Howard Schwartz retells 36 Jewish fairy tales that are at once otherworldly and earthy, pious and playful. Drawn from sources as diverse as Morocco and India, Spain and Eastern Europe, Babylon and Egypt, the stories are... (read more) List Price $44.50 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Gods and Myths of Northern Europe by H R Ellis Davidson Synopsis Surveys the pre-Christian beliefs of the Scandinavian and Germanic peoples.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Book of Werewolves by Sabine Baring Gould Publisher Comments Eclectic British scholar SABINE BARING-GOULD (1834-1924) inspired My Fair Lady, wrote the hymn Onward Christian Soldiers, and published more than five hundred literary works. Among his foremost folkloric studies is 1865's The Book of Werewolves, the... (read more) List Price $10.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Mythology by Edith Hamilton Publisher Comments Edith Hamilton's Mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman, and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture — the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Gods and Heroes of Ancient Greece (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Gustav Schwab Publisher Comments From fire-stealing Prometheus to scene-stealing Helen of Troy, from Jason and his golden fleece to Oedipus and his mother, this collection of classic tales from Greek mythology demonstrates the inexhaustible vitality of a timeless cultural legacy. Here... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Fire in the Head: Shamanism and the Celtic Spirit by Tom Cowan Publisher Comments In this exploration, Tom Cowan employs literary history to discover the shamanic roots of the Celtic spirit. It explores the shamanic roots of druidism, witchcraft and Celtic Christianity. Cowan draws together the shamans and the bards of old Europe and... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night by Nicholas Rogers Publisher Comments Boasting a rich, complex history rooted in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Egyptian Myths (Legendary Past) by George Hart Publisher Comments The rich panorama of ancient Egyptian mythology has survived through tomb paintings, temple inscriptions, and papyri. This account begins with the creation legends of Heliopolis, Memphis, and Hermopolis and illustrates the intellectual struggles of the... (read more) List Price $14.50 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Commonwealth: Of Elves, Fauns, and Fairies (New York Review Books) by Robert Kirk Publisher Comments Late in the seventeenth century, Robert Kirk, an Episcopalian minister in the Scottish Highlands, set out to collect his parishioners many striking stories about elves, fairies, fauns, doppelgangers, wraiths, and other beings of, in Kirks words, “a... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Yellow Fairy Book by Andrew Lang Publisher Comments American Indian, Russian, German, Icelandic, French, and other stories--48 in all--among them "The Tinder-box," "The Nightingale," and "How to Tell a True Princess." 104 illustrations.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Every Tongue Got to Confess: Negro Folk-Tales from the Gulf States by Zora Neale Hurston Publisher Comments “ What treasures these are— mordantly clever and quintessentially human stories about God and the creation of the black race, the devil, preachers wily and foolish, animals, the battle between the sexes, and slaves who outsmart their masters... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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