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Author : Arnold Bennett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Tale written by Arnold Bennett and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Chamberlain
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752486799
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
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?
Author : Angela Carter
Publisher : Pantheon
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book The Old Wives' Fairy Tale Book written by Angela Carter and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1995 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labour created our world." -- From the Introduction There was a time when fairy tales weren't meant just for children -- they were part of an oral folklore tradition passed down through generations. This volume of sixty enchanting and enduring tales, collected by master storyteller Angela Carter, revives the industry, eccentricity, spirit, and worldly wisdom of women in preindustrial times. Drawn from narrative traditions all around the world -- from ancient Swahili legends to Appalachian tall tales to European spirit stories and more -- these tales together comprise a unique feminine mythology. Angela Carter (1940-1992) was widely known for her novels, short stories, and journalism. Her many books include The Magic Toy Shop, The Sadeian Woman, Nights at the Circus, Fireworks, and Saints and Strangers.
Author : Tania Modleski
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814755941
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales and Other Women's Stories written by Tania Modleski and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1998-11 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alerting readers to a body of recent work that has gone under-examined, Tania Modleski redraws in Old Wives' Tales the perimeter of popular culture. A critical analysis of films such as The Ballad of Little Jo, The Piano and Dogfight, Old Wives' Tales also takes up performance, autobiographical experience, and contemporary social issues to illustrate how women's genres mediate between us and reality. Modelski examines the changes occurring in traditional women's genres, such as romances and melodrama, and explores the phenomenon of female authors and performers who "cross-dress"--women, that is, who are moving into male genres and staking out territory declared off-limits by men and by many feminists.
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ISBN 13 : 9781472364197
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (641 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Peele
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
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:
Author : Sarah Klain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789798201394
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (13 download)
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:
Author : Iris Andreski
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Iris Andreski and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A delightful little book about the daily life and thought of Ibibio women of southeastern Nigeria. Andreski has gathered stories and biographies from more than two dozen elderly women, has tried to put them in ethnological perspective and shows the differential impact of rapid social changes.
Author : Peter H. Engel
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312098896
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (988 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Peter H. Engel and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assesses the truth and falsehood of one hundred examples of conventional wisdom
Author : Susan M. Dodd
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 9781587290527
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Susan M. Dodd and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these ten varied and keenly rendered tales, Susan Dodd explores the levels of the human heart by leading us through a gallery of feelings, insights, characters, and emotions. Whether writing about a 100-year-old woman in South America, a teenage suicide in Winnetka, a divorced couple meeting by chance, or a pair of lovers listening to the family on the other side of their apartment wall, Dodd places us in a world full of subdued conflict where bonds between loved ones and strangers are tested, broken, and sometimes renewed. Her themes range beyond the regional or contemporary, embracing those moments of loneliness and self-knowledge that confront us all. As the characters meet and separate, wonder and react, we travel with them, exploring the forms of our existence, and the substance of our hearts.
Author : Thomas J. Craughwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435107557
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Thomas J. Craughwell and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Bernstein
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 9780395924921
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Honey, Mud, Maggots, and Other Medical Marvels written by Robert Bernstein and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 1998-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers remedies from ancient Egypt to the rain forests of contemporary Latin America, and challenges the myth that modern clinical practice is the only effective form of medicine. The authors find that modern research often reveals a rational basis for supposedly outdated ideas. Most important, an increasing number of physicians, pharmaceutical researchers, and scientists are beginning to recognize the wealth of knowledge that can be retrieved from abandoned practices of earlier eras in Western medicine and from outside the boundaries of Western ideas entirely.
Author : Rosalind Franklin
Publisher : Diggory Press Limited
ISBN 13 : 0951565540
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Baby Lore written by Rosalind Franklin and published by Diggory Press Limited. This book was released on 2005 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hundreds of superstitions and old wives tales from every corner of the world related to every aspect of pregnancy, birth, and baby care are collected in this volume. It covers folklore from determining baby's sex at conception to easing baby's teething pains.
Author : Thomas Craughwell
Publisher : Thomas Allen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780887628412
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (284 download)
Download or read book Old Wives Tales written by Thomas Craughwell and published by Thomas Allen Publishers. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover what lies behind many popular legends, urban myths and old wives' tales.
Author : Old wives
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Old wives and published by . This book was released on 1821 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Iris Andreski
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000939014
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales Pbdirect written by Iris Andreski and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a collection of tales of life histories of 26 elderly women from Ibiboland. It obtains a first-hand record of the pattern of life and banishes the myth of primitivity of the African by illustrating the complexity of conversational language of peasants and market women.
Author : Peter Engel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781863950350
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (53 download)
Download or read book Old Wives' Tales written by Peter Engel and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
