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Lady Glenconner turns her inimitable eye to the habits and eccentricities she loves most about the people and places she has had the good fortune to explore. From grand houses and embassies to modest huts and idyllic beaches, Anne Glenconner reveals youthful exploits on sailing boats, surprising...

Brought to you by Altrusian Grace Media (altrusiangrace.com) and human-narrated by Matthew Schmitz. Plant Lore, Legends, and Lyrics by Richard Folkard is an expansive compendium of the myths, customs, superstitions, symbolism, medicinal beliefs, religious associations, and traditional stories connected with plants across many cultures. Moving from flowers, trees, herbs, and fruits to sacred, magical, and ominous vegetation, Folkard traces how the plant kingdom has shaped folklore, poetry, ritual, healing, divination, and everyday life.

21st-Century Yokel explores the way we can be tied inescapably to landscape, whether we like it or not, often through our family and our past. It's not quite a nature book, not quite a humour book, not quite a family memoir, not quite folklore, not quite social history, not quite a collection of...

In this beautifully illustrated guide, bring the power of ancient tradition to the modern world, and reconnect with nature and yourself through traditional folk wisdom. Organized around the pagan wheel of the year, The Ancient Ways introduces readers to the natural rhythms that governed our...

Korean culture is exploding worldwide—from K-pop and K-dramas to Squid Game and KPop Demon Hunters. And now with The Book of Korean Mythology, the folklore of the gods, monsters, and heroes that shape culture are brought together in this beautifully illustrated collection. From the beautiful...

An inspiriting guide for relaxing your nervous system, sourcing true resilience, and finding your center in an anxious age. In an era of dumpster fires and doomscrolling, is there any such thing as a healthy relationship with our stress response? While we can’t avoid crisis, we can learn to...

Foreword by Paul Giamatti An exploration of the enduring worldview that has inspired individuals across time, from Ancient Greece to modern Hollywood—a sustained combination of magic, mysticism, and animism. We are experiencing a crisis of meaning. Instead of deepening our lives, religion...

¿POR QUÉ EL VERANO SIGUE TIRANDO DE NOSOTROS COMO UNA PROMESA QUE NUNCA TERMINA DE CUMPLIRSE? En Melón con jamón, Enrique Rey explora la época que España convirtió en religión: un paisaje de chiringuitos, urbanizaciones imposibles, canciones virales y recuerdos que ya no sabemos si son...

At festive gatherings celebrating summer's peak, in reflective moments as winter gave way, Rebecca Tamás began to hear another rhythm. A faint hint that, underneath the rush of clocks and calendars, another, richer kind of time might exist. As she suffered from grief and burnout, Tamás sought a deeper connection to the movement of the seasons through an immersion in old folkways. She set out on a journey across the UK guided by the Pagan wheel of the year, marking each solstice, equinox and the midpoints between them with a ritual drawn from ancient traditions.

Mediante amenos relatos, el audiolibro El libro de la mitología aporta una nueva mirada sobre los mitos y su significado para las culturas que los crearon

Embrace the changing seasons with this beautifully illustrated collection of folkore and myths of The North. From joyous tales of renewal and transformation for Spring, to hushed stories for long Winter nights, each season has a particular spirit which is celebrated in folktales from across the...

Author Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore, and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region. The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generations. Locals spin age-old yarns of legends like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone, and Dragging Canoe...

»Alles, was wir über Weihnachten wissen, ist falsch. Eine großartige Lektüre.« Matthew Parris Wer hat den Adventskalender erfunden? Und wer verschickte die erste Weihnachtskarte? Erfolgsautor Mark Forsyth liefert eine launige Geschichtensammlung über die Ursprünge unserer liebsten Weihnachtsbräuche. Humorvoll und kenntnisreich werden wir mit skurrilen und überraschenden Geschichten rund um das Weihnachtsfest beglückt. Obwohl wir jedes Jahr Weihnachten feiern, wissen wir wenig über die Herkunft unserer Festtagstraditionen.

In this cultural and historical guide, award-winning authors Julie Barlow and Jean-Benoît Nadeau reveal the mysteries behind French culture and answer the question: What makes the French so French? Why must you always say bonjour when entering a store in France? What gives the French people...

रथ नगर से बहुत दूर, वन के मध्य जा कर ठहर गया| दमकती हुई सीता, वृक्षों की ओर जाने को तत्पर हुईं| सारथी लक्ष्मण अपने...

‘Shane is the Indiana Jones of the running world’ - Damian Hall, ultra marathon runner Rejuvenate your mindset and unlock your running potential In The Lost Art of Running, Shane Benzie discovered how reconnecting with the human body can revolutionise our running and how we live our lives...

The Real Norse Myths—Simplified, Structured, and Stranger Than You Think. Think Norse mythology is just Thor’s hammer, Valhalla, and horned helmets? That’s the Hollywood version. The real myths are darker. Bloodier. Stranger. And far more unforgettable. Most people encounter Norse mythology in fragments—Marvel movies, random podcasts, half-remembered classroom lectures. The result? A confusing blur of gods, giants, monsters, and names you can’t pronounce. This audiobook fixes that.

Step into the Alpine Regions of Austria for a complete introduction to the local traditions, beliefs, and folklore surrounding the dark half of the year. Within these pages you will come face-to-face with the ghostly procession of otherworldly beings called the Wild Hunt, the goddess Percht who...

How do humans stop fighting? Where do the gods of myth come from? What does it mean to go mad? Mark R. Anspach tackles these and other conundrums as he draws on ethnography, literature, psychotherapy, and the theory of René Girard to explore some of the fundamental mechanisms of human interaction. Likening gift exchange to vengeance in reverse, the first part of the book outlines a fresh approach to reciprocity, while the second part traces the emergence of transcendence in collective myths and individual delusions.

Filled with examples of ritual, symbolism and an extensive collection of Artemis myths and folklore, this work is a comprehensive compilation of all things Artemis, and her fundamental role in the communal, political and ritual development of the Greco-Roman world. The goddess of the hunt is more than just a virgin in the woods. Her worship can be traced to a time before the Minoans, and her rituals include all facets of the human experience, starting from birth rituals to rites of passage, to death and beyond.