Here--culled from mythology, literature, and folk tales--is the mystical realm that has populated humanity's imagination for centuries. Over 400 entries, engagingly written and organized by type of entity, make this a complete source of information and a visual feast. Among the entries are: from "The Cosmos," Quetzalcoatl and Scorpio; from "The Ground and Underground," centaurs, elves, and unicorns; from "Wonderland," Atlantis and El Dorado; from "Magic, Science, and Invention," flying carpets and the Trojan horse; from "Water, Sky, and Air," Pegasus and Moby-Dick; and from "The Night," a host of shuddersome creatures from vampires to the golem. This is a wild and wondrous gift for any visionary.

    A mountain standing alone in the middle of a desert plain asks a small bird named Joy to stay when she stops to rest. Joy promises that she and her descendants will return each spring, and over time, they transform the mountain into the perfect home.

    Now years later, another girl discovers the quilt and makes it her own, relying on its warmth to help her feel secure in a new home. "A quilt that provides warmth, fun and comfort to two different generations is the star of this rich picture book . . . dePaola provides a warm, dignified interpretation of Johnston's stroy."--Booklist, starred review. Full color.

    Includes the work of many of Japan's most brilliant artists, including Hiroshige, Hokusai, and Yoshitoshi.

    Provides a unique insight into the initiatory path of Western esoteric system.

    Outside of that form of life is the 'wilderness': the outer wilderness of untamed nature and the inner psychological wilderness of areas of personality hidden in everyday life. Only by stepping outside his culture can man understand his cultural self. Only by experiencing the wilderness outside our normal system of living can we understand what we are as civilised beings within our form of life. He suggests that primitive peoples have a better understanding than modern scientific man of this need to step outside the cultural order in order to understand what is inside it.

    An illustrated collection of thirty-three traditional tales from Russia.

    Each brain-teasing tale is followed by a simple explanation of the solution, while notes at the back of the book describe the origins of these classic mysteries.

    Stories about the birth and boyhood deeds of the great mythical hero, Finn, are among the longest-lived Fenian tales.Joseph Nagy's book illumines for the reader the meanings of the tales and the body of traditional story to which these tales belong, the Fenian (or Ossianic) cycle.

    It is true? The hair on their chins is hair of the people they used to eat ... It is Terrible to think about those times... But the Creator saw the people's distress and decreed that a contest be held between all the two-legged and four-legged creatures. Who would win, thundering Buffalo or fleet-footed Man? None of the other animals was fast enough, ... The winner was decided long ago, in Sioux and Cheyenne legend. Buffalo -- who lost -- agreed to give up eating men for dinner, and thanks to the cunning of a single magpie, Man became the guardian of the natural world.

    

    

    Legends, folktales and traditions are set in the context of the individual locations from which they spring.The book details how the myths came into being, how they changed in the telling over generations, and how finally they came to form such an important part of Britain's heritage.

    Contents include: I Will Now Tell a Story / The Coming of Legends / The Creation / The Two Brothers / The Boy Who Lived With the Bears / How Bear Lost His Tail / Chipmunk and Bear / The Gifts of the Little People / Three Tales about Turtle / Turtle's Race with Beaver / Turtle's Race with Bear / Turtle Makes War on Men / How Buzzard Got His Feathers / Rabbit and the Willow Tree / Raccoon and the Crayfish / Rabbit and Fox / The Hungry Fox and the Boastful Suitor / The Dogs Who Saved Their Master / Battle with the Snakes / The Two-Headed Snake / The Story of Okteondon or the Workers of Evil / The Two Daughters / The Girl Who Was Not Satisfied With Simple Things / The Vampire Skeleton / The Stone Coat Woman / The Wife of Thunderer / Four Iroquois Hunters / Skunny-Wundy and the Stone Giant / Hodadenon: the Last One Left and the Chesnut Tree / The Brave Woman and the Flying Head / The Hunting of the Great Bear / Naho.

    Until the 1980s, however, there was a distinct lack of scholarship in the area, so in 1985, Carol J. Clover and John Lindow brought together some of the most ambitious and distinguished Old Norse scholars to contribute essays for a collection that would finally fill the void of a comprehensive guide to the field.The contributors summarize and comment on scholarly work in the major branches of the field: eddic and skaldic poetry, family and kings' sagas, courtly writing, and mythology. Taken together, their judicious and well-written essays, each with a full bibliography, make up this vital survey of Old Norse literature in English - a basic reference work that has stimulated much research and helped to open up the field to a wider academic readership.This volume has become an essential text for instructors, and twenty years later, is now being republished as part of the Medieval Academy Reprints for Teaching (MART) series with a new preface that discusses more recent contributions to the field.

    Twenty fairy tales from a variety of sources, including Grimm, Perrault, Andersen, and Wilde.

    “The poems are nicely balanced in tone, from humor to horror to scared-of-the-dark, from straightforward narrative to lyrical mood.”-Booklist Index.

    Drawing on the evidence of public art, especially sculpture, and painting, poetry, and classical mythology, she ranges over the allegorical presence of the woman in the Western tradition with a sharply observant eye and a piquant and engaging style.