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Curious Myths of the Middle Ages: The Sangreal, Pope Joan, The Wandering Jew, and Others (Dover Books on Anthropology and Folklore)

Essentially the most exceptional, eclectic thinkers in Victorian England, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was once intrigued via the gruesome and sometimes savage historical past of the center a while. The famous writer and folklorist’s fascination with the interval led to this soaking up compilation of classic stories surrounding such figures as William inform and the guy within the Moon.

The Two Madonnas: The Politics of Festival in a Sardinian Community

Portrayed by way of early shuttle writers as historic pagan survivals, fairs in Sardinia have lengthy involved either local islanders and outsiders. yet on the sunrise of the twenty-first century, this Mediterranean island has develop into a part of a world economic system, and its gala's allure travelers from all over the world.

Blood on the Tides: The Ozidi Saga and Oral Epic Narratology (Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora)

The Ozidi Saga is one in every of Africa's top recognized prosimetric epics, set within the Delta sector of Nigeria. Blood at the Tides examines the epic -- a story of a warrior and his sorcerer grandmother's revenge upon the assassins who killed her son -- either as an instance of oral literature and as a mirrored image of the explicit social and political matters of the Nigerian Delta and the rustic as awhole.

Loving Vampires: Our Undead Obsession

Vampire characters are ubiquitous in pop culture, serving as metaphors for society’s so much delicate subjects—sexuality, gender roles, race, ethnicity, class—and usually channeling frequent fears of immigration, crime, terrorism and dependancy. This e-book explores pop culture’s vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human strength.