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Where do the urban legends, conspiracy theories, and old wives' tales we hear every day really originate? Jack explores the best, strangest, and funniest of the tales so many of us take for gospel, and uncovers some eye-popping true stories that are even more far-fetched than their mythical counterparts.
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Here is a rich compendium of hundreds of legends, stories, beliefs, and magic collected from oral sources in preindustrial Scandinavia. In this rural society, the people lived close to nature and believed themselves an integral part of it. This volume focuses on beliefs that illustrate the central aspects of a traditional worldview, rather than on prose narratives considered for their literary value.
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In this lively compendium, travelers of the armchair variety will find assembled the best travel tales from cultures around the world and through the centuries. Focusing on journeys for purposes of trade, diplomacy, religion, or pleasure, the encyclopedia surveys the persons, animals, events, places, and institutions associated with travel legend from antiquity to 1900. With an informative introduction, nearly 200 cross referenced A-to-Z entries,...
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Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Iseult) remains one of the most popular medieval romances ever written. The tales originated in Germany, but bards in France and Britain composed their own versions of the story, a tale of adultery, betrayal, mistaken identity, and thwarted love. Eisner's The Tristan Legend offers a study of the sources of the Tristan romance, tracing them through the various versions of the legend.
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This marvelous collection brings together the great myths and legends of the United States-from the creation stories of the first inhabitants, to the tall tales of the Western frontier, to the legendary outlaws of the 1920s, and beyond. This thoroughly engaging anthology is sweeping in its scope, embracing Big Foot and Windigo, Hiawatha and Uncle Sam, Paul Revere and Billy the Kid, and even the Iroquois Flying Head and Elvis. In the book's section...
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