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| x Cockatrice |
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A cockatrice is a legendary creature, resembling a large rooster with a lizard-like tail, "an ornament in the drama and poetry of the Elizabethans" Laurence Breiner described it; "the cockatrice, which no one ever saw, was born by accident at the...
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| x Vampire pumpkins and watermelons |
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Vampire pumpkins and watermelons are a folk legend from the Balkans, in southeastern Europe, described by ethnologist Tatomir Vukanović. The story is associated with the Roma people of the region, from whom much of traditional vampire folklore,...
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| x Sphinx |
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A sphinx (Arabic: أبو الهول) is a mythological figure which is depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head. It has its origins in sculpted figures of Old Kingdom Egypt, to which the ancient Greeks applied their own name for a male monster, the ...
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| x Banshee |
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The Banshee (pronounced /ˈbænʃiː/, BAN-shee), from the Irish bean sídhe [bʲæn ˈʃiː] ("woman of the síde" or "woman of the fairy mounds") is a female spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the Otherworld. Her...
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| x Folklore |
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Folklore culture, including stories, music, dance, legends, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, customs, and so forth within a particular population comprising the traditions (including oral traditions) of that culture, subculture, or...
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| x Tree and Leaf |
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Tree and Leaf is a small book published in 1964, containing two works by J. R. R. Tolkien:
The book was originally illustrated by Pauline Baynes.
Mythopoeia was added to the 1988 edition (ISBN 0395502322).
Both pieces were re-issued in the...
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| x 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey |
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13 Alabama ghosts and Jeffrey is a book first published in 1969 by folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh. The book contains thirteen ghost stories from the U.S. state of Alabama. The book was the first in a series of seven...
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| x The Dictionary of Imaginary Places |
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The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (1980, 1987, 1999) is a book written by Alberto Manguel and Gianni Guadalupi. It takes the form of a catalogue of fantasy lands, islands, cities, and other locations from world literature—"a Baedecker or traveller...
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| x Go gator and muddy the water |
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| x Mules and men |
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| x Fabulous Beasts |
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| x Tales of Ancient Egypt |
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| x The vampire book |
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| x Tone the Bell Easy |
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| x Straight Texas |
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| x Rainbow in the morning |
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| x Coffee in the Gourd |
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| x In the shadow of history |
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| x Tales of old-time Texas |
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| x Spur-Of-The-Cock |
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| x The mysterious doom and other ghostly tales of the Pacific Northwest |
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| x From the beast to the blonde |
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| x Passing strange |
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| x Her stories |
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| x The people could fly |
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| x Black folktales |
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| x Werewolf |
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| x Trickster makes this world |
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| x Welsh Walks and Legends |
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| x Heart |
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| x The tale of the four dervishes and other Sufi tales | ||
| x West Irish Folk Tales and Romances |
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| x Nebraska folklore |
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| x The tape-recorded interview |
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| x The world guide to gnomes, fairies, elves, and other little people |
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| x Tales And Popular Fictions |
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| x The Fairy Mythology |
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| x Language of flowers |
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| x The baby train and other lusty urban legends |
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| x The study of American folklore |
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| x The vanishing hitchhiker |
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| x Mexican Pet |
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| x Too good to be true |
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| x Tell me a tale |
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| x Cornish Feasts And Folk-Lore |
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| x Mystic Mandrake |
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| x Long ago by Shannon side |
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| x Meeting the other crowd |
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| x Torching the fink books and other essays on vernacular culture |
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| x Wobblies, pile butts, and other heroes | ||
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| x The faerie kingdom |
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| x Yule-Tide Stories |
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| x Legends of the City of Mexico |
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| x The singer of tales in performance |
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| x Fiesta U.S.A. |
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| x The leaping hare |
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