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Author: Mike Dixon-Kennedy
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Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780874368710
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovers the myths and legends of the Russian Empire at its greatest extent as well as other Slavic people and countries. Includes historical, geographical, and biographical background information.
Author: Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Published: 1998-12-08
Total Pages: 400
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSummary: Covers the myths and legends of the Russian Empire at its greatest extent as well as other Slavic people and countries. Includes historical, geographical, and biographical background information
Author: Mike Dixon-Kennedy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 1998-12-08
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 1576074870
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume offers the first comprehensive guide in English to the myth and legend of the Russian Empire and other Slavic countries and peoples. There are few stories more stirring than those of ancient Russia. Russian and other Slavic beliefs weave a rich tapestry in which real-world elements coexist with those from fantasy, such as dragons, monsters, and shape-changing wolves. Though Russia adopted Christianity as the state religion in A.D. 988, paganism remained popular through the end of the 19th century and survives in isolated pockets even today. In Russian myth and legend, Christian themes are interwoven with pagan ideas: dragons fight priests, saints encounter nymphs, and witches enter the kingdom of heaven. Encyclopedia of Russian and Slavic Myth and Legend includes extensive historical, geographical, and biographical background to deepen the reader's understanding of the myth and legend. Numerous illustrations are included in this fascinating volume, which will be of great interest to students, scholars, and everyone who wishes to explore the cultural heritage of ancient Russia.
Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-05-09
Total Pages: 428
ISBN-13: 0786495057
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Here there be dragons"--this notation was often made on ancient maps to indicate the edges of the known world and what lay beyond. Heroes who ventured there were only as great as the beasts they encountered. This encyclopedia contains more than 2,200 monsters of myth and folklore, who both made life difficult for humans and fought by their side. Entries describe the appearance, behavior, and cultural origin of mythic creatures well-known and obscure, collected from traditions around the world.
Author: Carol Rose
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-12-04
Total Pages: 466
ISBN-13: 9780393322118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains alphabetically arranged entries that describe the imaginary creatures found in legends, religions, folklore, oral history, and theologies around the world.
Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-03-24
Total Pages: 179
ISBN-13: 1476663556
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOf all the anomalous phenomenon reported, ghost sightings are by far the most common. The words "ghost" and "spirit" are used interchangeably in American English but in other cultures the lingering souls of the departed are not to be confused with ancestral spirits, demonic spirits, numens or poltergeists. This encyclopedia lists hundreds of entities of the spirit realm--from aatxe to zuzeca--from world mythology and folklore.
Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2013-09-18
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 0786471115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFairies 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: Walter G. Moss
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2004-10-01
Total Pages: 667
ISBN-13: 0857287397
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMoss has significantly revised his text and bibliography in this second edition to reflect new research findings and controversies on numerous subjects. He has also brought the history up to date by revising the post-Soviet material, which now covers events from the end of 1991 up to the present day. This new edition retains the features of the successful first edition that have made it a popular choice in universities and colleges throughout the US, Canada and around the world.
Author: Patrice Lajoye
Publisher: Lingva
Published: 2019-07-09
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKSlavic mythology is very little known to the Western public. Also a group of researchers from seven different countries (Australia, France, Greece, Poland, Czech Republic, Russia, Ukraine) has made the choice to translate recent works on the subject into English. Eight of the articles in this volume study different aspects of ancient Slavic mythology, while one is a synthesis of the Baltic mythology and religion. With the contributions of Ji
Author: Theresa Bane
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2016-05-26
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 1476663513
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEvery 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.
