Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-08-28
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1476612420
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.
Author: John Bell
Publisher: London : Printed by and for J. Bell
Published: 1790
Total Pages: 480
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-05-12
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1476663513
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Every culture has in its folklore and mythology beings of immense size and strength, as well as other preternatural humanoids great or small who walk among us, serving the divine or fulfilling their own agendas. This book catalogs the lore and legends of more than 1,000 different humanoid species and individual beings, including the Titans, Valkyries, Jotnar, yōkai, biblical giants, elves, ogres, trolls and many more.
Author: Bohemian Club (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher:
Published: 1918
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Peter Heslin
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0199541574
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This strikingly innovative account of Propertius' relationship with Virgil paints a remarkable picture of poetic rivals. Examination of their use of Greek mythology uncovers sustained polemics concealed and couched in meta-literary allusions, forcing a reshaping of our understanding of poetic interaction within the circle of Maecenas" -- source : éditeur.
Author: George Newlin
Publisher: M.E. Sharpe
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 788
ISBN-13: 9780765624451
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Includes a thematic concordance of various aspects of life written about by George Eliot. Using Eliot's own words, this work presents all the characters in the novels and other fiction, as well as useful plot and content summaries, and bibliographic data. It presents seven Eliot novels, three novellas, and two short stories.
Author: Ailsa Hunt
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2016-09-12
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1107153549
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Argues that thinking about sacred trees in Roman culture forces us to rethink how we understand Roman religion.