Paul Bunyan in Michigan: Yooper Logging, Lore & Legends by Jon C. Stott

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

Some of the most fabulous, eclectic thinkers in Victorian England, the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould (1834–1924) was once intrigued by way of the gruesome and sometimes savage heritage of the center a while. The famous writer and folklorist’s fascination with the interval ended in 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 means of early commute writers as old pagan survivals, fairs in Sardinia have lengthy interested either local islanders and outsiders. yet on the sunrise of the twenty-first century, this Mediterranean island has develop into a part of an international economic system, and its fairs allure travelers from worldwide.

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 quarter 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 categorical social and political issues 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 habit. This ebook explores pop culture’s vampires variously as sexual seducers, savage monsters, noble protectors and drainers of human strength.