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Author : George Henderson
Publisher : Folcroft Library Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Survivals in Belief Among the Celts written by George Henderson and published by Folcroft Library Editions. This book was released on 1911 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henderson
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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Survivals in Belief Among the Celts written by George Henderson and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Henderson
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ISBN 13 : 9780243629183
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (291 download)
Download or read book Survivals in Belief Among the Celts written by George Henderson and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Folklore Society (Great Britain)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 742 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 1912 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alan Dundes
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299133344
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Evil Eye written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil eye--the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone--is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and Semitic world. It is also one of the oldest, judging from its appearance in the Bible and in Sumerian texts five thousand years old. Remnants of the superstition persist today when we drink toasts, tip waiters, and bless sneezers. To avert the evil eye, Muslim women wear veils, baseball players avoid mentioning a no-hitter in progress, and traditional Jews say their business or health is "not bad" (rather than "good"). Though by no means universal, the evil eye continues to be a major factor in the behavior of millions of people living in the Mediterranean and Arab countries, as well as among immigrants to the Americas. This widespread superstition has attracted the attention of many scholars, and the twenty-one essays gathered in this book represent research from diverse perspectives: anthropology, classics, folklore studies, ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, sociology, and religious studies. Some essays are fascinating reports of beliefs about the evil eye, from India and Iran to Scotland and Slovak-American communities; others analyze the origin, function, and cultural significance of this folk belief from ancient times to the present day. Editor Alan Dundes concludes the volume by proffering a comprehensive theoretical explanation of the evil eye. Anyone who has ever knocked on wood to ward off misfortune will enjoy this generous sampling of evil eye scholarship, and may never see the world through the same eyes again.
Author : Ceri Houlbrook
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331975517X
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Magic of Coin-Trees from Religion to Recreation written by Ceri Houlbrook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the history of ritual landscapes in the British Isles, and the transition from religious practice to recreation, by focusing on a highly understudied exemplar: the coin-tree. These are trees imbued with magical properties into which coins have been ritually embedded. This is a contemporary custom which can be traced back in the literature to the 1700s, when it was practiced for folk-medical and dedicatory purposes. Today, the custom is widespread, with over 200 coin-trees distributed across the British Isles, but is more akin to the casual deposition of coins in a wishing-well: coins are deposited in the tree in exchange for wishes, good luck, or future fortune. Ceri Houlbrook contributes to the debate on the historic relationships between religion, ritual, and popular magic in British contexts from 1700 to the present.
Author : Bob Curran
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
ISBN 13 : 1601637268
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Dark Fairies written by Bob Curran and published by Red Wheel/Weiser. This book was released on 2010-07-20 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We all know about fairies—they're usually helpful, ethereal creatures in children's stories and Walt Disney films, flitting about doing good, right? Wrong! In ancient times, the concept of fairies was rather different. They were the often-dangerous embodiment of the land, dark and unpredictable spirits that watched Humanity with a jaundiced and hostile eye. And, according to conventional folk wisdom, they were to be feared rather than trusted. Indeed, in their original form, many of our "fairy tales" read more like late-night horror stories. Dr. Bob Curran investigates the folkloric roots of the fairy kind, tracing their origins from the sprites and maenads of Classical times to the sanitized versions of the English Victorians. Among other aspects, he examines the connections in the Christian mind between the fairy kind and demons; the links between fairies and ancient, pagan gods; and the often-strained relations between fairies and humans across the ages. This is not a book for those who believe that fairies are friendly, kindly creatures. With the growing and anticipated interest in fairies—particularly given the forthcoming Disney film Wings, starring Miley Cyrus—Dark Fairies is a timely and valuable new title.
Author : Stephen James Meredith Brown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Ireland in Fiction written by Stephen James Meredith Brown and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486404479
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (44 download)
Download or read book The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain written by Lewis Spence and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinating, painstakingly researched study of occult beliefs and practices in Celtic Britain, with intriguing discussions of the origins of the Druids, Arthurian cults, the mystery of the Holy Grail, Celtic spells and charms, black magic, the Celtic spirit world — with its populations of banshees, leprechauns, brownies and a host of lesser phantoms — and many other topics. A compelling, erudite study that will appeal to anthropologists, folklorists, and anyone interested in the customs and spiritual life of Britain's ancient Celts.
Author : Florence Marian McNeill
Publisher : Canongate Books
ISBN 13 : 1847675204
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (476 download)
Download or read book The Silver Bough written by Florence Marian McNeill and published by Canongate Books. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduced by Stewart Sanderson. This book, the first and most popular of four volumes, is a marvellous and indispensable treasury of Scottish folklore and folk belief from the world of Celtic magic, gods and fairies, to the prophecies of the Brahan seer, second sight, witchcraft, earth magic, selkies, changelings and a host of traditional spells and cures. The Silver Bough involved many years of research into both living and recorded folklore. Its genesis lies perhaps in the author's need to reconcile the old primitive world she had glimpsed in her Orkney childhood, with the sophisticated modern world she later entered. This much loved and highly regarded work remains a classic of literature. 'If you are looking for an insight into the Celtic mindset, or interested in the background of Scottish literature or in Scottish folklore for its own sake . . . I know of no other single volume I could so unreservedly recommend to you.' Books in Scotland
Author : James MacKillop
Publisher : Syracuse University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780815623533
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Fionn mac Cumhail written by James MacKillop and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1985-12-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gaelic hero Fionn mac Cumhaill (often known in English as Finn MacCool) has had a long life. First cited in Old Irish chronicles from the early Christian era, he became the central hero of the Fenian Cycle which flourished in the high Middle Ages. Stories about Fionn and his warriors continue to be told by storytellers in Ireland and in Gaelic Scotland to this day. This book traces the development of Fionn's persona in Irish and Scottish texts and constructs a heroic biography of him. As aspects of the hero are borrowed into English and later world literature, his personality undergoes several changes. Seen as less than admirable, he may become either a buffoon or a blackguard. Somehow these contradictions exist side by side. Among the writers in English most interested in Fionn are James Macpherson, the "translator" of The Poems of Ossian ( 17601, William Carleton, the first great fiction writer of nineteenth-century Ireland, and Fiann O'Brien, the multifaceted author of At Swim-Two-Birds. Aspects of Fiann appear as far apart as Mendelssohn's "Hebrides (or Fingal 's Cave) Overture" and a contemporary rock opera. But the most complex use of Fionn's story in modern literature is James Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Author : Ontario Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 774 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Selected List of Books written by Ontario Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ontario Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Selected List of Books Recommended by the Ontario Library Association for Purchase by the Public Libraries of this Province ... written by Ontario Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book International Index to Periodicals written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An author and subject index to publications in fields of anthropology, archaeology and classical studies, economics, folklore, geography, history, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, religion and theology, sociology and theatre arts.
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Total Pages : 1274 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 1274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author and subject index to a selected list of periodicals not included in the Reader's guide.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Social Sciences and Humanities Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Milne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Book Monthly written by James Milne and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
