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Tales Until Dawn | |||
| The World of a Cape breton Gaelic Story-Teller | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| Joe Neil MacNeil | ||||
| Birlinn 2005 270p | ||||
| Paperback 1841583332 | ||||
| Published Price £12.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Joe Neil MacNeil, lifelong resident of the Canadian Gaelic-speaking community of Cape Breton, held in his memory a priceless wealth of lore learned in his youth during the early 20th century. Folklorist John Shaw's translations of these tales, proverbs, rhymes, superstitions and games, along with MacNeil's own reminiscences, form a fascinating overview of the traditions of a community where story-telling was a basic element of life. | ||||
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Songs Remembered in Exile | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| John Lorne Campbell | ||||
| Birlinn 1999 232 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1841580104 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £3.99 | |||
| Collected in Nova Scotia in the 1930s, these Gaelic songs were preserved by the descendants of emigrants from the Scottish Highlands and Hebrides. With English translations, explanatory notes and tunes. | ||||
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Folksong and Folklore of South Uist | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Margaret Fay Shaw | ||||
| Birlinn 1999 306 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 1841580082 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| This classic compendium of photographs, stories, folklore and songs evokes the vibrant life and history of the Hebridean island of South Uist. Gaelic lyrics, with English prose translations. | ||||
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Brigh An Orain | |||
| A Story in Every Song: The Songs and Tales of Lauchie | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| John Shaw (Edited by) | ||||
| McGill-Queen's UP 2000 432 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0773520635 | ||||
| Published Price £14.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Lauchie MacLellan, who died in 1991, was a Gaelic singer-storyteller from Nova Scotia; he spent many hours in his later years discussing with John Shaw the background to his songs, the difficulties of transcription and the more obscure Gaelic words and expressions. This book includes the Gaelic text and English translation of MacLellan's autobiography, together with 48 songs and nine folktales, centuries old but presented as he performed them. | ||||
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A Dictionary of Superstitions | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Iona Opie; Moira Tatem | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2005 496 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0192806645 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Black cats and white heather, four-leaf clovers and Friday the 13th: this book collects for the first time hundreds of superstitions, spells, signs, omens and taboos which survived into the 19th and 20th centuries in Great Britain and Eire. Each entry explores the origins and history of each superstition by means of quotations from literary works and oral traditions. | ||||
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Handbook of Hindu Mythology | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| George M Williams | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2008 394 pages | ||||
| Paperback 019533261X | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Unlike many other ancient mythologies, Hindu myth thrives in the modern world. One billion followers and countless others have been captivated by its representations of love, karma and reincarnation. Williams, an historian of Indian religion, offers the general reader an introduction to Hindu mythology and its concepts of mythic time, space and causality, followed by an A-Z of entries on characters, themes and concepts. With a list of resources, glossary and index. | ||||
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Handbook of Chinese Mythology | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Lihui Yang; Deming An | ||||
| Oxford University Press 2005 298 pages | ||||
| Paperback Illustrated 0195332636 | ||||
| Published Price £15.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| Written by two Chinese scholars, the Handbook offers a comprehensive account of China's folklore and mythology, focusing on the Han people but ranging across the full spectrum of ancient and modern China and showing how key myths endured and evolved over time. The introduction and a 'timeline' of the Chinese mythological universe are followed by encyclopedia-style entries on deities, themes and concepts, each with a list of references and further reading. Plus an annotated list of resources, glossary and index. | ||||
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A Short History of Myth | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Karen Armstrong | ||||
| Canongate 2005 160 pages | ||||
| Hardback 184195716X | ||||
| Published Price $18.00 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Why have humans always created myths? Why do we continue to need them? Karen Armstrong discusses the history of myths in the broadest sense, showing that an understanding of mythology can help us to understand ourselves, our history and the universe around us. Arguing that we still cannot afford to ignore myth, she reflects on the 'Great Western Transformation' of the past 500 years, which has brought different understandings of myth in the face of its discrediting by science. | ||||
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The Story of Bacchus | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Andrew Dalby | ||||
| British Museum 2005 168 pages | ||||
| Paperback 0714122556 | ||||
| Published Price £10.99 | Our Price £4.99 | |||
| Andrew Dalby retells the Greeks' many myths about Bacchus: his birth from the thigh of Zeus and youth among nymphs and Satyrs on Mount Nysa, his victory over India, and the gift of wine to humanity. It is a sometimes disturbing tale - Bacchus also brought about the dismemberment of Pentheus by his own mother and fellow Maenads. This biography of the god includes a discussion of the ancient sources and suggestions for further reading. | ||||
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World of Myths | |||
| Volume Two | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| Felipe Fernandez-Armesto | ||||
| British Museum 2004 410 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 0714150185 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £6.99 | |||
| This compilation of five books covers Mesopotamian, Persian, Chinese, Aztec, Maya and Inca myths, retold and translated from the original languages. Each author describes the cultural background, sources and legacy of these tales of heroic adventures and tragic destinies, while illustrations of artistic and archaeological evidence help to recreate their world. The volume's thought-provoking introduction, by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, identifies the themes which unite the mythologies of the world and discusses their moral and ecological messages. | ||||
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The Lore of Ireland | |||
| An Encyclopedia of Myth, Legend and Romance | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| Daithi O Hogain | ||||
| Boydell 2006 552 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1843832151 | ||||
| Published Price £25.00 | Our Price £7.99 | |||
| From the misty lore of Tuatha De Danann, through saints and scholars to larger-than-life figures such as Daniel O'Connell and Michael Collins, this volume combines the many strands of Ireland's traditional culture: folklore, myth, legend and romance. It comprises an A-Z of 250 substantial entries, all with references to sources, a synopsis of relevant stories and discussion of their origin, nature and development. With a guide to Irish patronymics and pronunciation. | ||||
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The Legend of the Grail | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| Nigel Bryant (Compiled by) | ||||
| DS Brewer 2006 262 pages | ||||
| Paperback 1843840839 | ||||
| Published Price £9.99 | Our Price £2.99 | |||
| Composed by several different writers and replete with bewildering contradictions, the original Grail legends dazzle with the sheer wealth of their conflicting imagination. Nigel Bryant joins the ranks of those writers who have appropriated the myths - Umberto Eco, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Dan Brown to name but a few - to present a consistent version of the Grail story based on the original, timeless and extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad. | ||||
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Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles | |||
| or, The Book of Galehaut Retold | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| Patricia Terry; Samuel N Rosenberg | ||||
| David R Godine 2006 228 pages | ||||
| Hardback 1567923240 | ||||
| Published Price £21.95 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Most readers familiar with Arthurian legend today will have learned it from Malory or TH White. But the saga of Arthur and his kingdom is told in many books of Old French romance, among them The Book of Galehaut. Complemented with engravings by acclaimed Arthurian illustrator Judith Jaidinger, this is a translation of the 13th century text and the double love story it tells: of Lancelot's love for Guinevere, and of Galehaut's for Lancelot. | ||||
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Songs on Bronze | |||
| The Greek Myths Made Real | Mind, Body & Spirit | |||
| Nigel Spivey | ||||
| Faber 2005 242 pages | ||||
| Hardback 0571215416 | ||||
| Published Price £16.99 | Our Price £5.99 | |||
| Presenting 'a single, organic narrative of as much Greek mythology as most people want or need to know', Spivey retells the Greeks' accounts of the creation of the world, the heroes Herakles, Theseus, Perseus and Jason, the Trojan War, Odysseus' return home, the house of Atreus and Oedipus. His vigorous modern versions preserve the tales' raw violence and sensuality as well as the ancient authors' often wry picture of the Olympian gods. | ||||
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The Oxford Illustrated Companion to World Mythology | |||
| Mind, Body & Spirit | ||||
| David Leeming | ||||
| Tess 2008 352 pages | ||||
| Hardback Illustrated 1603760350 | ||||
| Published Price | Slightly off-mint | Our Price £9.99 | ||
| In this authoritative and richly illustrated reference work David Leeming, a noted scholar of world mythology, provides substantial articles on the major religion-based and ethnicity-based mythologies as well as entries on mythological characters and themes, written works and other topics related to mythology. A cultural listing of entries precedes the A-Z and an index follows, making it simple to locate the all the gods, heroes and themes of a given tradition. Plus a bibliography and index. Slightly off-mint. | ||||
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