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An Open Life: Joseph Campbell in Conversation with Michael Toms by Joseph Campbell Publisher Comments In the tradition of The Power of Myth, a conversation with Joseph Campbell that distills the mature wisdom and eclectic spiritual thinking of the world-renowned scholar and mythologist.... (read more) List Price $12.50 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Celtic Seers' Source Book: Vision and Magic in the Druid Tradition by John Matthews Publisher Comments Experts in the ancient traditions of the Seers provide the most enlightening collection of writings ever published about their powers, visions, and relationship with nature. The topics range from precognitive dreams, incubatory sleep, and co-walking to... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by Barbara G Walker Powells.com Staff Pick "One of my favorite ways of reading is to pull a book off the shelf and open it at random. That's the great thing about reference books like dictionaries or encyclopedias. These books are treasure troves — dip in anywhere, let chance take you, lead... (read more) List Price $34.00 Your price $17.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Women of the Celts by Jean Markale Publisher Comments Historian Markale explores the rich heritage of Celtic women in history,myth, and ritual, showing how those traditions compare to modern attitudestoward women.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Selected Fables of Jean de La Fontaine by Jean De La Fontaine Publisher Comments All the imagination, whimsy and invention that have made Alexander Calder’s mobiles and stabiles so popular. In this reprint, 36 fables (in rhymed translation by Eunice Clark) with a Calder drawing for each fable and 12 additional vignettes.... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Girl Who Married a Lion: And Other Tales from Africa by Alexander M Smith Publisher Comments Gathered here is a beguiling selection of folktales from Zimbabwe and Botswana as retold by the best-selling author of The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. This treasury contains most of the stories previously collected in Children of Wax and seven new... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Crossing to Avalon: A Woman's Midlife Quest for the Sacred Feminine by Jean Shinoda Bolen Publisher Comments Proving prayer to be as valid and vital a healing tool as drugs or surgery, the bestselling author of Meaning &Medicine and Recovering the Soul offers a bold integration of science and spirituality.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Ancient Celts by Barry Cunliffe Synopsis The Celtic "barbarians from the north" were feared for their ferocity in battle, and admired for their skill in crafts. Exploring the archaeological reality of the Iron Age Celts, this study traces the emergence of chiefdoms, patterns of expansion and... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Dictionary of Chinese Symbols by Wolfram Eberhard Synopsis A guide describing more than 400 important Chinese symbols, explaining their esoteric meanings and connections. Their use and development in Chinese literature, customs and attitudes to life are traced lucidly and precisely.... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $15.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gumbo YA-YA: Folk Tales of Louisiana by Lyle Saxon Synopsis The living folklore of Louisiana returns in this new edition of the classic long considered the finest collection of Louisiana folk tales and customs ever chronicled. A charming look at the legends and practices of the bayou country, especially New... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in Mythology on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Penguin Classics) by Brian Stone Publisher Comments Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is the masterpiece of medieval alliterative poetry. The unknown fourteenth-century author (a contemporary of Chaucer) has imbued his work with the heroic atmostphere of a saga, with the spirit of French romance and with a... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Japanese Tales by Royall Tyler Publisher Comments Here are two hundred and twenty dazzling tales from medieval Japan, tales that welcome us into a fabulous, faraway world populated by saints and scoundrels, ghosts and magical healers, and a vast assortment of deities and demons. Stories of miracles... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Speaking Land: Myth and Story in Aboriginal Australia by Ronald M Berndt Publisher Comments MYTHOLOGY / ABORIGINAL CULTUREThe 195 stories collected in this first anthology of Aboriginal myth were told to anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt, who spent nearly fifty years working among the Aboriginal peoples of Australia. The Berndts... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sundays with Vlad: From Pennsylvania to Transylvania, One Man's Quest to Live in the World of the Undead by Paul Bibeau Synopsis Bibeau, intrepid investigative journalist, detective extraordinaire, and vampire-obsessed myth-hunter, travels around the globe in search of Dracula--the monster, the myth, and the pop-culture icon.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Norwegian Folk Tales: From the Collection of Peter Christen Asbj Rnsen, J Rgen Moe (Pantheon Fairy Tale & Folklore Library) by Peter Ch Asbjornsen Publisher Comments Collected here in a contemporary translation. With these tales we meet witches, trolls and ogres, sly foxes and mysterious bears, beautiful princesses and country lads turned heroes. Includes illustrations.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Dictionary of Symbols by J E Cirlot Publisher Comments A valuable reference, this informative and entertaining volume presents a key to elucidating the symbolic worlds encountered in both the arts and the history of ideas. Alphabetical entries clarify essential meanings of each symbol, as drawn from religion,... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Language and Myth by Ernst Cassirer Publisher Comments Analyzes nonrational thought processes, demonstrating underlying grammar; Indian philosophy, Schelling modern poetry, much more.... (read more) List Price $5.95 Your price $2.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Friedman's Fables (with Booklet) with Book by Edwin H Friedman Publisher Comments Dr. Friedman has woven 24 illustrative tales that offer fresh perspectives on familiar human foibles and reflect the author's humor, pathos, and understanding. Friedman takes on resistance and other "demons" to show that neither insight, nor... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Irish Cures, Mystic Charms & Superstitions by Lady Wilde Publisher Comments Lady Wilde, mother of famed author Oscar Wilde, over 100 years ago collected these hundreds of archaic cures, spells, homespun proverbs, visionary omens and prophecies. 128 pages, 16 b/w illus., 5 3/8 x 8 1/4.... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Knights by Heller And Headon Publisher Comments A collection of stories about the knights of the Middle Ages draws upon Arthurian and European legends. Full color illustrations throughout.... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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