San Antonio College Library

Meet yesteryear's hardbitten pioneers, hostile Indians, and chilling supernatural beings in the Piney Woods. As you listen with awe to the whisperings of the huge pines, this book peoples the forests with faces and figures of those who lived there long ago ... whose voices still live in the murmurings of the winds and the trees. Relive vivid violence of the 1842 Shelby County war between Moderators and Regulators, as both factions vie for control...

"In late May, a Pennsylvania high school hums with the rumor that a Satanic cult plans on killing the first four couples through the door on prom night." "A horror writer in the Catskills is overcome with grief, alienated from his wife, unable to write, and suffering from recurring thoughts of physical and sexual indignities he has no words to describe. He concludes he has been abducted by aliens." "In a Pizza Hut in Ohio, employees refuse to close...

A fabulously entertaining book from the ultimate authority on those almost believable tales that always happen to a "friend of a friend." Alligators in the sewers? A pet in the microwave? A tragic misunderstanding of the function of cruise control? No, it didn't really happen to your friend's sister's neighbor: it's an urban legend. And no matter how savvy you think you are, you are sure to find in this collection of over 200 tales at least one story...

"This collection of interrelated stories about a sixteenth-century Prague rabbi and the golem he created became an immediate best-seller upon its publication in 1909. So widely popular and influential was Yudl Rosenberg's book, it is no exaggeration to claim that the author transformed the centuries-old understanding of the creature of clay and single-handedly created the myth of the golem as protector of the Jewish people during times of persecution."...

Wisconsin is one truly haunted state. Some experts have suggessted that it might very well be the most hanted state in the union. A.S. Mott takes a fun and quirky look at this spirit friendly locale.

Presents a collection of more than 150 folktales culled primarily from the Swedish National Folklore Archives and private collections.

Legends and myths are at the heart of human culture. If we would understand the religion or literature of a people, we must first understand their myths and legends. Sometimes, the myths and legends, as sacred stories, embody the entire religious tradition of a people. Sometimes, as in Judaism and Christianity, the stories are both the origins of the religious tradition and also a later expression of their ethical message and messianic hopes. Now...

"Legend and Belief is a descriptive and analytical study of the legend, the most prolific and characteristic form of folklore in contemporary Western civilization. Not that the legend does not have ancient roots; like the tale, the joke, the ballad, the proverb, or mummery, it was part of an archaic, preindustrial tradition. But the legends - as old as conversation and debate about problems of the human condition - has been able to survive the technological...