Cut your kids some slack and lead them to an adventure-filled destination that is the Norse Folktales. Although reality is better than dreams, it’s not so much of a harm to look at where magic and mysteries thrive. This shall add more knowledge and expand your kids’ horizons once again. Get it here. ...
Aren’t mermaids fascinating? They are beautiful nymphs with tails of fish. Meanwhile, witches are scary especially how they’re depicted in Norse folktales. But these mythical creatures are reflective of the belief systems proliferating in early times. Would you like to know more about them and what they mean? Then open this book today! ...
River monsters are part of modern folklore. Those who believe that myths are something that exist only in the far distant path are incorrect. Anyone who knows a little bit about modern river monsters knows they are the root of 20th and even 21st century cryptozoology myths. For children, reading about these amazing creatures, both ones we know exist and those that are pure fantasy, opens many doors of imagination. The sense of wonder gained help ...
During the archaic and classical periods, Greek ideas about the dead evolved in response to changing social and cultural conditions—most notably changes associated with the development of the polis, such as funerary legislation, and changes due to increased contacts with cultures of the ancient Near East. In <i>Restless Dead</i>, Sarah Iles Johnston presents and interprets these changes, using them to build a complex picture of the w ...
In <i>Haiti, History, and the Gods,</i> Joan Dayan charts the cultural imagination of Haiti not only by reconstructing the island's history but by highlighting ambiguities and complexities that have been ignored. She investigates the confrontational space in which Haiti is created and recreated in fiction and fact, text and ritual, discourse and practice. Dayan's ambitious project is a research tour de force that gives huma ...
Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as «brain dead» are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocativ ...
Learning Love from a Tiger explores the vibrancy and variety of humans’ sacred encounters with the natural world, gathering a range of stories culled from Christian, Muslim, Hindu, Mayan, Himalayan, Buddhist, and Chinese shamanic traditions. Readers will delight in tales of house cats who teach monks how to meditate, shamans who shape-shift into jaguars, crickets who perform Catholic mass, rivers that grant salvation, and many others. ...
