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Old Wives' Tales

Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752486799
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Mary Chamberlain and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From goddesses and witches to modern-day doctors—an entertaining history of women healers featuring an A–Z of remedies The woman healer is as old as history—for millennia she has been doctor, nurse, and midwife, and even in the age of modern medicine her wisdom is handed down in the form of old wives' tales. Using extensive research into archives and original texts, and numerous conversations with women in city and countryside, Mary Chamberlain presents a stimulating challenge to the history of orthodox medicine and an illuminating survey of female wisdom which goes back to the earliest times.What are old wives’ tales? Where do they come from? Do they really work? These questions, and many more, are answered in this fascinating compendium of remedies and cures handed down from mother to daughter from the beginning of time. We may all know that stewed prunes are a cure for constipation, but how many of us were aware that a poultice of chicken manure is a remedy for baldness? Or that eel liver will aid a difficult labor?

The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales"

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Author : Marina Warner
Publisher : Uitgeverij Verloren
ISBN 13 : 9789065503435
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Absent Mother, Or Women Against Women in the "old Wives Tales" written by Marina Warner and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 1991 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Aesop's Fables

Author : Aesop
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781853261282
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (612 download)

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Download or read book Aesop's Fables written by Aesop and published by Wordsworth Editions. This book was released on 1994 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of animal fables told by the Greek slave Aesop.

Motif-Index of Folk Literature : past masters ; humanities databases, full text

Author : [Anonymus AC03416919]
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781570853227
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (532 download)

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Download or read book Motif-Index of Folk Literature : past masters ; humanities databases, full text written by [Anonymus AC03416919] and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This database is an electronic edition of the Motif-Index of Folk-Literature, revised and enlarged by Stith Thompson, (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1955).

The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood

Author : Jack Zipes
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135205329
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (352 download)

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Download or read book The Trials and Tribulations of Little Red Riding Hood written by Jack Zipes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The Old Wives Tale, 1595

Author : George Peele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Old Wives Tale, 1595 written by George Peele and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

Author : Jacob Grimm
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789387779693
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (796 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales written by Jacob Grimm and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time in a fairy tale world, There were magical mirrors and golden slippers;Castles and fields and mountains of glass,Houses of bread and windows of sugar.Frogs transformed into handsome Princes,And big bad wolves into innocent grandmothers.There were evil queens and wicked stepmothers;Sweethearts, true brides, and secret lovers. In the same fairy world, A poor boy has found a golden key and an iron chest, and " We must wait until he has quite unlocked it and opened the lid . . ." A classic collection of timeless folk tales by Grimm Brothers, Grimm' s Fairy Tales are not only enchanting, mysterious, and amusing, but also frightening and intriguing. Delighting children and adults alike, these tales have undergone several adaptations over the decades. This edition with black-and-white illustrations is a translation by Margaret Hunt.

Dr. Faustus

Author : Christopher Marlowe
Publisher : Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media
ISBN 13 : 1722524804
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (225 download)

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Download or read book Dr. Faustus written by Christopher Marlowe and published by Gildan Media LLC aka G&D Media. This book was released on 2024-01-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Faustus is a great Elizabethan tragedy by Christopher Marlow originally published in 1600. The story is based on an earlier anonymous classic German legend involving worldly ambition, black magic and surrender to the devil. It remains one of the most famous plays of the English Renaissance. Dr. John Faustus, a brilliant, well-respected German doctor grows dissatisfied with the limits of human knowledge - logic, medicine, law, and religion, and decides that he has learned all that can be learned by conventional means. What is left for him, he thinks, but magic. His friends instruct him in the black arts, and he begins his new career as a magician by summoning up Mephastophilis, a devil. Despite Mephastophilis’s warnings about the horrors of hell, Faustus tells the devil to return to his master, Lucifer, with an offer of Faustus’s soul in exchange for twenty-four years of service from Mephastophilis. On the final night before the expiration of the twenty-four years, Faustus is overcome by fear and remorse. He begs for mercy, but it is too late. At midnight, a host of devils appears and carries his soul off to hell. Marlowe’s dramatic interpretation of the Faust legend is a theatrical masterpiece. With immense poetic skill, and psychological insight that greatly influenced the works of William Shakespeare and other dramatists, Dr. Faustus combines soaring poetry, psychological depth, and grand stage spectacle. Marlowe created powerful scenes that invest the work with tragic dignity, among them the doomed man’s calling upon Christ to save him and his ultimate rejection of salvation for the embrace of Helen of Troy.

Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide

Author : Vanessa D. Dickerson
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826210814
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Victorian Ghosts in the Noontide written by Vanessa D. Dickerson and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An interesting rereading of familiar texts by Emily and Charlotte Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot recovering the historical and literary roots of the supernatural as it appears in each women's work. Dickerson (English, Rhodes College) makes interesting observations about women's changing roles in the 19th century when scientific advancements relegated women to the home as arbiters of the spiritual while men occupied themselves with "rational" invention. Through close readings, she demonstrates how the Brontes, Gaskell, and Eliot resisted this division and, simultaneously, created a spiritual genre of writing traditionally denigrated by critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

India's Most Haunted

Author : K. Hari Kumar
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 9353573564
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book India's Most Haunted written by K. Hari Kumar and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2019-10-25 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are places where the past lingers, making shapes in the moonlight and blowing in the curtains even as the air goes suddenly still. K. Hari Kumar, bestselling author of spine-chilling horror fiction, brings you the terrifying tales of some of India's most haunted places -- including Bhangarh Fort, Malabar Hill's Tower of Silence and Jammu and Kashmir's notorious Khooni Nala.Whether you read them at night or in daylight, these stories will remain with you long after you've turned the last page.

Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Author : Washington Irving
Publisher : Orient Blackswan
ISBN 13 : 9788125021766
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Rip Van Winkle, and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving and published by Orient Blackswan. This book was released on 1963 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains wakes to a much-changed world.

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii

Author : David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Legends and Myths of Hawaii written by David Kalakaua (King of Hawaii) and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fables of Æsop

Author : Sir Roger L'Estrange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 788 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Fables of Æsop written by Sir Roger L'Estrange and published by . This book was released on 1699 with total page 788 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bluebeard's First Wife

Author : Seong-nan Ha
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781948830171
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Bluebeard's First Wife written by Seong-nan Ha and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-16 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ha looks closely at the sordid underbelly of suburbia in Bluebeard's First Wife, the latest from one of Korea's preeminent authors.

Burly Tales

Author : Steve Berman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781590210840
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Burly Tales written by Steve Berman and published by . This book was released on 2021-07 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales

Author : Sarah Klain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789798201394
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Old Wives' Tales written by Sarah Klain and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mama Knows Best

Author : Chrisena Coleman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mama Knows Best written by Chrisena Coleman and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chrisena Coleman shares the wisdom she has collected in this heartwarming, witty, and unique book brimming over with long-standing traditions, age-old myths, and home remedies that have been passed down from mothers to daughters generation after generation. Some tales date back as far as slavery, others are from contemporary mamas like herself ... but each one is fun, entertaining, and grounded in African-American history."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved