W Y Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

 W Y Evans-Wentz - The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries

This classic study of traditional Celtic spirituality ties ancient Paganism, medieval myth, and traditional Fairy beliefs into a powerful celebration of Celtic wisdom and magic.

This magnificent book is a collection of stories, anecdotes, and legends from all six of the regions where Celtic ways have persisted in the modern world: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man. It examines how Fairy spirituality survived in the face of hostility caused by modern science and religion. It celebrates how beliefs (which only a century ago were dismissed as quaint and superstitious) were, in fact, powerful principles of ancient Pagan magic that remained essential features of the Celtic world for generation after generation.

The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries offers plenty of speculation and theories regarding who or what fairies are and where they come from. But it is also an anthropological study of fairy faith which involved interviews with hundreds of people.

Pages: 588
ISBN: 9781365619793

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Thomas Keightley - The Fairy Mythology

The Fairy Mythology - The World Guide to Gnomes, Fairies, Elves, and Other Little People. A great collection of folklore regarding fairies from all over the world.

“The book looks at fairy traditions from across the globe: Scandinavia, the British Isles, Germany, with folklore tales and the histories behind legends of such mythic creatures as the Kobolds, Korrigans, and the beloved brownie. For a true fairy enthusiast, folklore buff, this makes an excellent additional to any folklore collection.”

“One of the most researched and trustworthy sources of information on global folklore.”

Pages: 560
ISBN: 9781365619786

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Wirt Sikes - British Goblins

British Goblins - Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions.

British Goblins does a good job at its stated purpose - collecting and loosely categorizing Welsh Folklore of every category, ranging from the reasons behind certain customs and superstitions of daily life, to descriptions and associated stories of various faeries, goblins, and giants, to descriptions of apparitions and the view of the afterlife, to more fantastic things, like dragons, standing stones, and magic wells and stones.

Although a somewhat anecdotal approach is taken, the author has in fact preserved a good deal of information that might have otherwise been lost.

Pages: 116
ISBN: 9781365619663

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Viktor Rydberg - Fädernas gudasaga

Viktor Rydberg (1828-1895) återberättar här sagorna om våra fornnordiska gudar med Oden och Tor i spetsen. Om världens skapelse, världsträdet Yggrasil, de första människorna, Midgård och Valhall och de andra världarna, och om Ragnarök. Läs de svindlande äventyren som satt outplånliga spår i vår kulturhistoria och omgivning. Närmare en svensk "bibel" än så här går det inte att komma.

Sidor: 260
ISBN: 9781329373648

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Thomas Bulfinch - Legends of Charlemagne

Kind of a biography, based on myths, legends and stories about “Charlemagne” – Charles the Great, king of the Franks. Read about the adventures of the fantastic Paladines and about the greatest of them all – Roland. By Thomas Bulfinch.

Pages: 252
ISBN: 9781312184817

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Thomas Wentworth Higginson - Tales of Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic

A mix of history, legends, myths and seafaring lore from many ages and cultures about mysterious islands in the Atlantic. The Story of Atlantis, Taliessin of the Radiant Brow, The Swan-Children of Lir, Usheen in the Island of Youth, Bran the Blessed, The Castle of the Active Door, Merlin the Enchanter, Sir Lancelot of the Lake, The Half-Man, King Arthur at Avalon, Maelduin's Voyage, The Voyage of St. Brandan, Kirwan's Search for Hy-Brasail, The Isle of Satan's Hand, Antillia - the Island of the Seven Cities, Harald the Viking, The Search for Norumbega, The Guardians of the St. Lawrence, The Island of Demons, Bimini and the Fountain of Youth.

Pages: 152
ISBN: 9781312184985

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Donald A Mackenzie - Teutonic Myth and Legend

Teutonic Myth and Legend - An Introduction to the Eddas & Sagas, Beowulf, The Nibelungenlied, etc. This is a good collection of Northern myths, interspersed with poems and passages in classic literature that were inspired by (or are adaptations of) these myths. Like most myth collections, each story stands alone and a search for plot cohesion or smooth continuity will end in frustration. But each stand-alone is rich in imagery and a certain dreaminess that, in aggregate with all the other stories, impart a fierce, cold, clear imaginative state that lingers far after you've closed the book.

Pages: 464
ISBN: 9781312546653

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Arthur Edward Waite - The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal

In the 13th century, over a few decades, a huge literature emerged around an unlikely tale. Survivors of the core of early Christianity make a perilous journey to Western Europe. They begin a hidden bloodline, preserve immensely powerful relics of the crucifixion, and carry a secret which, if revealed, would turn the established church on its head. A.E. Waite gets to the core of the Grail legend, an interwoven mass of narratives which started with seeds of pagan folklore and grew into a massive allegorical Christian epic.

Pages: 532
ISBN:  9781304998057

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Kersey Graves - The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors

Khrisna of India. Thammuz of Syria. Esus of the Celtic Druids. Mithra of Persia. Quexalcoati of Mexico. All were crucified gods, and all met their fates hundreds of years before Jesus appeared on the scene. In this foundational work of modern atheism, American spiritualist KERSEY GRAVES (1813-1883) breaks the Christ myth down into its component parts and ably demonstrates how the story of Jesus has its roots in the depths of antiquity. Here you'll read about the surprising prevalence throughout global folklore of:  the miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods, stars that point out the time and place of a savior's birth, angels, shepherds, and magi visiting an infant savior, the 25th of December as the universal birth date of gods, saviors who descend into Hell, and much more. This is essential reading for students of comparative mythology and modern freethinkers.

Pages: 396
ISBN:  9781304998200

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Thomas Crofton Croker - Fairy Legends and Traditions

I think the title of this book says it all.
Thomas Croftons Croker's "Fairy Legends and Traditions" was first published in 1825, and now finally in a reprint.

Pages: 260
ISBN:  9781409265115

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Sabine Baring-Gould - Curious Myths of the Middle Ages

Contains the myths of: The Wandering Jew, Prestor John, The Divining Rod, The Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, William Tell, The Dog Gellert, Tailed Men, Antichrist and Pope Joan, The Man in the Moon, The Mountain of Venus, Fatality of Numbers, S. Patrick's Purgatory, The Terrestrial Paradise, S. George, S. Ursula and the Eleven Thousand Virgins, The Legend of the Cross, Schamir, The Piper of Hameln, Bishop Hatto, Melusina, The Fortunate Isles, Swan Maidens, The Knight of the Swan, The Sangreal, Theophilus.

Pages: 320
ISBN: 9781409265924

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Charles M Skinner - Myths and Legends from our own Land

Myths and legends collected from all over the USA.

Pages 300
ISBN 9781409265375

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M I Ebbutt - Hero-Myths & Legends of the British Race

Beowulf, The Dream of Maxen Wledig, The Story of Constantine and Elene, The Compassion of Constantine, Havelok the Dane, Howard the Halt, Roland - the Hero of Early France, The Countess Cathleen, Cuchulain - the Champion of Ireland, The Tale of Gamelyn, William of Cloudeslee, Black Colin of Loch Awe, The Marriage of Sir Gawayne, King Horn, Robin Hood, Hereward the Wake.

328 pages

ISBN 9781409239772

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