Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, [3 volumes]
Folklore: An Encyclopedia of Beliefs, Customs, Tales, Music, and Art, [3 volumes]

Author: Charlie T. McCormick Ph.D.

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2010-12-13

Total Pages: 1396

ISBN-13: 1598842420

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Written by an international team of acclaimed folklorists, this reference text provides a cross-cultural survey of the major types and methods of inquiry in folklore. Did you know that the tale of Cinderella is over 1,000 years old, and similar versions of this singular story exist in hundreds of cultures around the globe? Have you heard of "deathlore," a subgenre of folklore involving tombstones, coffins, cemeteries, and roadside memorial shrines? Did you realize that UFO sightings and cyber cultures constitute modern folklore? The broad field of folklore studies, developed over the past two centuries, provides significant insights into many aspects of human culture. While the term "folklore" conjures images of ancient practices and beliefs or folk heroes and traditional stories, it also applies to today's ever-changing cultural landscape. Even certain aspects of modern Internet-based popular culture and contemporary rites of passage represent folklore. This encyclopedia covers all the major genres of both ancient and contemporary folklore. This second edition adds more than 100 entries that examine the folklore practices of major ethnic groups, folk heroes, creatures of myth and legend, and emerging areas of interest in folklore studies.

German-American Folklore
German-American Folklore

Author: Mac E. Barrick

Publisher: August House Publishers

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13:

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Describes the folk art, home remedies, proverbs, and games of the Germanic culture in America.

Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life
Godless Citizens in a Godly Republic: Atheists in American Public Life

Author: Isaac Kramnick

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company

Published: 2018-08-21

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 0393254976

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“Illuminating.” —Phil Zuckerman, author of Living the Secular Life If the First Amendment protects the separation of church and state, why have atheists had to fight for their rights? In this valuable work, R. Laurence Moore and Isaac Kramnick reveal the fascinating history of atheism in America and the legal challenges to federal and state laws that made atheists second-class citizens.

Signs, Cures, & Witchery
Signs, Cures, & Witchery

Author: Gerald Milnes

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2007

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9781572335776

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The persecution of Old World German Protestants and Anabaptists in the seventeenth century--following debilitating wars, the Reformation, and the Inquisition-- brought about significant immigration to America. Many of the immigrants, and their progeny, settled in the Appalachian frontier. Here they established a particularly old set of religious beliefs and traditions based on a strong sense of folk spirituality. They practiced astrology, numerology, and other aspects of esoteric thinking and left a legacy that may still be found in Appalachian folklore today. Based in part on the author's extensive collection of oral histories from the remote highlands of West Virginia, Signs, Cures, and Witchery; German Appalachian Folklore describes these various occult practices, symbols, and beliefs; how they evolved within New World religious contexts; how they arrived on the Appalachian frontier; and the prospects of those beliefs continuing in the contemporary world. By concentrating on these inheritances, Gerald C. Milnes draws a larger picture of the German influence on Appalachia. Much has been written about the Anglo-Celtic, Scots-Irish, and English folkways of the Appalachian people, but few studies have addressed their German cultural attributes and sensibilities. Signs, Cures, and Witchery sheds startling light on folk influences from Germany, making it a volume of tremendous value to Appalachian scholars, folklorists, and readers with an interest in Appalachian folklife and German American studies.

Pow-wows Or Long Lost Friend
Pow-wows Or Long Lost Friend

Author: John George Hohman

Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.

Published: 2007-10-01

Total Pages: 101

ISBN-13: 1602067627

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An invaluable relic of early-19th-century Americana, this collection of spells, incantations, and remedies is an example of that fascinating blend of Christian prayer and folk magic known as "hoodoo," which is still practiced in some areas of Pennsylvania Dutch country. In this classic work, first published in the German language in 1820 and translated into English in 1828, folk enchanter JOHN GEORGE HOHMAN-about whom little is known except that he was a German immigrant to America-shares his secret magic for: . curing hysterics. protecting oneself against slander. attaching a dog to a person. making a wand for searching for iron or water. preventing malicious persons from doing injury. curing the poll-evil in horses. mending broken glass. making cattle return home. destroying rats and mice. making a candle wick that is never consumed. charming guns and other arms. and much more.

The Surviving Image
The Surviving Image

Author: Georges Didi-Huberman

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Published: 2018-01-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780271072098

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Originally published in French in 2002, examines the life and work of art historian Aby Warburg. Demonstrates the complexity and importance of Warburg's ideas, addressing broader questions regarding art historians' conceptions of time, memory, symbols, and the relationship between art and the rational and irrational forces of the psyche.