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The Water of Life: Spiritual Renewal in the Fairy Tale, Revised Edition

by David L Hart

The intensive study of Jungian psychology was amplified by another subject, taught continuously while I was a student at the Jung Institute in Zurich, Switzerland: the psychology of fairy tales. The study of...


The Gold Seekers: Gold, Ghosts and Legends from Carolina to California

by Nancy Roberts

The first gold rush in the United States did not happen in California, as The Gold Seekers reveals. America's first gold rush was in the South.


Ghosts of the Southern Mountains and Appalachia

by Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

Roberts writes stories from a wide variety of locations: "Night of the Hunt" in Hendersonville, North Carolina; "Return of the Bell Witch" in Adams, Tennessee; "The Shenandoah Stage" in New Market, Virginia;...


South Carolina Ghosts: From the Coast to the Mountains

by Nancy Roberts

Ghosts still walk in South Carolina and unexplained things continue to confound even the most skeptical among us.


North Carolina Ghosts & Legends

by Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

This collection of tales was originally published as An Illustrated Guide to Ghosts and Mysterious Occurences in the Old North State. To her group of classic stories, Mrs. Roberts has added three new tales about...


France - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture

by Barry Tomalin

France has experienced considerable upheaval in recent years. The Eurozone crisis, a new socialist president, rioting by an alienated underclass, a ban on the burqa (full veil) in public places, and an attempt...


Ghosts of the Carolinas

by Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

More spooky tales and folklore from a master storyteller


Civil War Ghost Stories & Legends

by Nancy Roberts & Bruce Roberts

Few events have sparked more legends and stories of the supernatural than America's Civil War. The accounts of gallantry and heroism have spread far and wide. Nancy Roberts grew up listening to her father's...


Suffolk Folk Tales

by Kirsty Hartsiotis

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by Kirsty Hartsiotis. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from Suffolk reflect...


The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception

by Michael Baigent & Richard Leigh

The Dead Sea Scrolls were found in caves 20 miles east of Jerusalem in 1947 and 1956. Now Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, co-authors of The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, have succeeded in uncovering what...


South-African Folk-Tales

by James Albert Honey

The folk tales of South Africa are fascinating and full of beautiful stories of animals, gods and magic.


Eskimo Folk-Tales

by W. W. Worster

The folk tales of the Inuit are some of the most unique in the entire world, completely isolated for thousands of years in the icy, windswept north, they believed they were the only peoples on Earth and this...


Legends of Gods and Ghosts - (Hawaiian Mythology) - Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian

by William Drake Westervelt

A collection of the beautiful and descriptive tales of ghosts and myths from the Hawaiian Islands, complete with a glossary of Hawaiian place names and words. Fans of ghost stories and Hawaiian history will...


The Realm of Faerie - Fairy Life and Legend in Britain (Folklore History Series)

by Wirt Sikes

This fantastic book is a must read for anybody who has an interest in fairy lore and the history of folklore concerning the fairy. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900's and...


Manners and Social Usages

by Mary Elizabeth Sherwood

A manual written for any social scenario that might occur to somebody from the upper-middle classes at the turn of the 20th century. A lot of this book may seem anachronistic in the modern age but it is a fascinating...


Folk Lore in Lowland Scotland

by Eve Blantyre Simpson

The folklore of Scotland is rich and vibrant, this is a classic collection of folk stories with on Beltane and the vanished races, fairies, fisherman's superstitions, witches and wizards and much more.


Maori Tales and Legends

by Kate McCosh Clark

The following tales are an outcome of a long residence in New Zealand, and of many opportunities whilst travelling amongst the Maoris of becoming acquainted with their folk-lore, superstitions, and customs....


The Big Grey Man of Ben Macdhui

by Affleck Gray

In an acclaimed account of the terrifying figure said to haunt the desolate passes and summit of Britain's second highest mountain, this book takes on one of Scotland's most chilling unsolved mysteries. Throughout...


Dancing for Health: Conquering and Preventing Stress

by Judith Lynne Hanna

Dancing for Health explains the cognitive, emotional, and physical dimensions of dance in a spectrum of stress management approaches. Designed for anyone interested in health and healing, this book offers lessons...


Norfolk Folk Tales

by Hugh Lupton

These lively and entertaining folk tales from one of Britain's most ancient counties are vividly retold by local storyteller Hugh Lupton. Their origins lost in the oral tradition, these thirty stories from Norfolk...