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Author : Tony J. Hollins
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899608027
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Staffordshire Murders, Myths and Le written by Tony J. Hollins and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. M. Jamieson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780950583259
Total Pages : 95 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Murders, myths and monuments of north Staffordshire written by W. M. Jamieson and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Hayward
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752476300
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)
Download or read book Myths and Legends of the First World War written by James Hayward and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-08 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the First World War, a rich crop of legends sprouted from the battlefields and grew with such ferocity that many still excite controversy today. This book is the first to examine the roots of those stories and reveal the truth. Some myths remain well-known. Did an entire battalion of the Norfolk Regiment vanish without trace at Gallipoli in 1915? Did thousands of Russian troops actually pass through England with snow on their boots? In 1914, an acute spy mania gripped the British public, who imagined that the country was brimming with German spies. Xenophobia, denunciations and attacks on dachshunds were rampant. Amazingly, there was even talk of enemy aircraft dropping poisoned sweets to kill British children. Myths such as the Angel of Mons and the Comrade in White were more innocent creations. With no radio or television, rumours of disaster were rife, and the apparition of mystical guardian spirits gave hope to the civilian population at home. Other stories, such as the so-called Crucified Canadian, and the existence of a gruesome German corpse rendering factory, were more sinister. Yet in an age of new and startling technologies such as poison gas, submarine warfare and the tank, such tales appeared believable. Using a wide range of contemporary sources, James Hayward traces the story of each myth and examines the likely explanation. Supported by a selection of rare photographs and illustrations, the result is a refreshingly different perspective on the common ‘mud and trenches’ view of the First World War, shedding fascinating new light on many curious and unexplained wartime tales.
Author : Graham Watkins
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1291985271
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (919 download)
Download or read book Welsh Legends and Myths written by Graham Watkins and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mythology collection of eighty Welsh Legends and Myths, gathered from across Wales. The Welsh, like other Celtic races, love a good story. From the time of the Mabinogion and the Black Book of Carmarthen welsh folk have passed dark winter nights in front of roaring fires and entertained with mythical stories. Welsh Legends and Myths is a compendium of traditional myths, Welsh fables, Welsh fairy tales and real stories. Like other Celtic Mythology many of the myths and legends told here are based on factual events. While some have mythical roots, all are entertaining.
Author : Bram Stoker
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3495 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Mythology and History of Witchcraft written by Bram Stoker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-12-10 with total page 3495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This meticulously edited collection on witchcraft is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents: Introduction to Witchcraft: The Superstitions of Witchcraft by Howard Williams The Devil in Britain and America by John Ashton Witchcraft in Europe: History of Magic and Witchcraft: Magic and Witchcraft Lives of the Necromancers Witch, Warlock, and Magician Practitioners of Magic & Witchcraft and Clairvoyance Mary Schweidler, the Amber Witch Sidonia, the Sorceress La Sorcière: The Witch of the Middle Ages Tales & Legends: Witchcraft & Second Sight in the Highlands & Islands of Scotland Witch Stories Studies: The Witch Mania Witchcraft and Superstitious Record in the South-Western District of Scotland Modern Magic Witchcraft in America: The Wonders of the Invisible World Salem Witchcraft Salem Witchcraft and Cotton Mather A History of the Salem Village Witchcraft Trials An Account of the Witchcraft Delusion at Salem in 1682 House of John Procter, Witchcraft Martyr, 1692 Studies: The Salem Witchcraft, the Planchette Mystery, and Modern Spiritualism by Samuel Roberts Wells The Witchcraft Delusion in Colonial Connecticut (1647-1697) by John M. Taylor Witchcraft of New England Explained by Modern Spiritualism by Allen Putnam On Witchcraft: Glimpses of the Supernatural – Witchcraft and Necromancy by Frederick George Lee Letters On Demonology And Witchcraft by Sir Walter Scott
Author : Alan Hayhurst
Publisher : Sutton
ISBN 13 : 9780750947060
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Staffordshire Murders written by Alan Hayhurst and published by Sutton. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A well-illustrated and engrossing insight into the shady side of Staffordshire's history.
Author : Elon Foster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 706 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book New Cyclopædia of Prose Illustrations: Embracing mythology, analogies, legends, parables, emblems, metaphors, similes, allegories, proverbs; classic, historic, and religious anecdotes, etc written by Elon Foster and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Sleigh
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A History of the Ancient Parish of Leek ... written by John Sleigh and published by . This book was released on 1862 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Simon Young
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496839455
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)
Download or read book The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends written by Simon Young and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2022-06-27 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2023 Brian McConnell Book Award from the International Society for Contemporary Legend Research In the last fifty years, folklorists have amassed an extraordinary corpus of contemporary legends including the “Choking Doberman,” the “Eaten Ticket,” and the “Vanishing Hitchhiker.” But what about the urban legends of the past? These legends and tales have rarely been collected, and when they occasionally appear, they do so as ancestors or precursors of the urban legends of today, rather than as stories in their own right. In The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends, Simon Young fills this gap for British folklore (and for the wider English-speaking world) of the 1800s. Young introduces seventy Victorian urban legends ranging from “Beetle Eyes” to the “Shoplifter’s Dilemma” and from “Hands in the Muff” to the “Suicide Club.” While a handful of these stories are already known, the vast majority have never been identified, and they have certainly never received scholarly treatment. Young begins the volume with a lengthy introduction assessing nineteenth-century media, emphasizing the importance of the written word to the perpetuation and preservation of these myths. He draws on numerous nineteenth-century books, periodicals, and ephemera, including digitized newspaper archives—particularly the British Newspaper Archive, an exciting new hunting ground for folklorists. The Nail in the Skull and Other Victorian Urban Legends will appeal to an academic audience as well as to anyone who is interested in urban legends.
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1082 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 1082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexander Barrie
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750954272
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)
Download or read book Sutton Companion to the Folklore, Myths and Customs of Britain written by Alexander Barrie and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2005-11-24 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Britain's rich and varied folklore, legends and beliefs provide an insight into the island's history. Every invader, refugee or settler has helped contribute some new element or twist to the complex pattern of our national heritage. This volume provides a comprehensive companion to legends and customs in England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.
Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1672 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 1672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles J Esdaile
Publisher : Pen and Sword Military
ISBN 13 : 1399037501
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The English Civil War written by Charles J Esdaile and published by Pen and Sword Military. This book was released on 2024-08-30 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cavaliers and Roundheads are figures who appear in hundreds of English ghost stories. In this innovative account, Charles Esdaile argues that such tales are in reality folk memories of an episode of English history that was second only to the Black Death in terms of individual and collective suffering alike, and, further, that they reveal important truths about the way in which the conflict was represented: it is no surprise, then, to find that spectral Cavaliers are often romantic figures and revenant Roundheads grim ones full of menace. Yet, the book is no mere catalogue. On the contrary, rather than being discussed in a vacuum, the tales of haunting are rather set within a detailed regional history of the conflicts of 1642-1651 of a sort that has never yet been attempted, but is, for all that, badly needed.
Author : Joseph Jacobs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
Author : Michael Baigent
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781559701266
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Temple and the Lodge written by Michael Baigent and published by Arcade Publishing. This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dispelling myth and reevaluating European and American history, The Temple and the Lodge is the most illuminating investigation yet published into the evolution of Freemasonry.
Author : James Smallwood
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442805
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (428 download)
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem written by James Smallwood and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people--civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other's supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.
Author : Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6649 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)
Download or read book The Greatest Works of Sheridan Le Fanu (65+ Novels & Short Stories in One Edition) written by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-12-22 with total page 6649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This carefully edited collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Novels & Novellas: Uncle Silas The Cock and Anchor The House by the Church-Yard Wylder's Hand Guy Deverell The Tenants of Malory Haunted Lives The Wyvern Mystery Checkmate Willing to Die The Haunted Baronet Spalatro Short Story Collections: In a Glass Darkly: Green Tea The Familiar Mr Justice Harbottle The Room in the Dragon Volant Carmilla The Purcell Papers: The Ghost and the Bone-Setter The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh The Last Heir of Castle Connor The Drunkard's Dream Passage in the Secret History of an Irish Countess The Bridal of Carrigvarah Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter Scraps of Hibernian Ballads Jim Sulivan's Adventures in the Great Snow A Chapter in the History of a Tyrone Family An Adventure of Hardress Fitzgerald The Quare Gander Billy Maloney's Taste of Love and Glory Madam Crowl's Ghost and Other Tales of Mystery: Madam Crowl's Ghost Squire Toby's Will Dickon the Devil The Child That Went with the Fairies The White Cat of Drumgunniol An Account of Some Strange Distrubances in Aungier Street Ghost Stories of Chapelizod Wicked Captain Walshawe, of Wauling Sir Dominick's Bargain Ultor de Lacy The Vision of Tom Chuff Stories of Lough Guir Other Tales: The Evil Guest The Watcher Laura Silver Bell The Murdered Cousin The Mysterious Lodger An Authentic Narrative of a Haunted House The Dead Sexton A Debt of Honor Devereux's Dream Catherine's Quest Haunted Pichon and Sons The Phantom Fourth The Spirit's Whisper Dr. Feversham's Story The Secret of the Two Plaster Casts What Was It? Poetry Biography Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was an Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels. He was a leading ghost-story writer of the nineteenth century and was central to the development of the genre in the Victorian era.
