Folklore

Senovinės pasakos ir amžina išmintis aidės šiuose puslapiuose, kur dievai vaikšto tarp mirtingųjų, apgavikai apgauna galinguosius, o magiški padarai atskleidžia paslėptas tiesas apie žmogaus prigimtį. Šios knygos nagrinėja mitus, legendas ir tradicines istorijas, kurios formavo kultūras visame pasaulyje, kartu su moksliniais aiškinimais, atskleidžiančiais simbolines prasmes, įaustas į pasakas, epinius poemus ir antgamtines tikybas, perduodamas iš kartos į kartą.

Folklore knygų santraukos

The Living Stones

parašė Ithell Colquhoun • 1957

A surrealist painter flees the Blitz for a Cornish shack. The prehistoric stones are alive.

3.99

167

⛵ Coastal Memoir 🖌️ Artist Memoir 🌿 Animist Nature Writing

The Living Stones

A surrealist painter flees the Blitz for a Cornish shack. The prehistoric stones are alive.

parašė Ithell Colquhoun 1957 204 puslapiai

3.99

167 įvertinimai

⛵ Coastal Memoir 🖌️ Artist Memoir 🌿 Animist Nature Writing

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

parašė Alice Evelyn Yang • 2026

Her father returns after eleven years, carrying wartime horrors and a monster in their blood.

4.13

2 000+

🏠 Generational Saga 🦊 Magical Realism 🔐 Family Secrets

A Beast Slinks Towards Beijing

Her father returns after eleven years, carrying wartime horrors and a monster in their blood.

parašė Alice Evelyn Yang 2026 360 puslapiai

4.13

2 000+ įvertinimai

🏠 Generational Saga 🦊 Magical Realism 🔐 Family Secrets

African American Herbalism

parašė Lucretia VanDyke • 2023

Black herbal tradition, erased from textbooks: rootwork, spiritual baths, kitchen remedies.

4.32

156

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Folk Healing 🖤 Black Folk Medicine

African American Herbalism

Black herbal tradition, erased from textbooks: rootwork, spiritual baths, kitchen remedies.

parašė Lucretia VanDyke 2023 200 puslapiai

4.32

156 įvertinimai

🪴 Herbal Medicine 🌿 Folk Healing 🖤 Black Folk Medicine

Stig of the Dump

parašė Clive King • 1963

Down a chalk pit, Barney finds a wild boy who builds a life from discarded things.

3.91

11 000+

⏳ Time-Slip Fantasy 🌿 Wild Boy 🌳 Pastoral Adventure

Stig of the Dump

Down a chalk pit, Barney finds a wild boy who builds a life from discarded things.

parašė Clive King 1963 176 puslapiai

3.91

11 000+ įvertinimai

⏳ Time-Slip Fantasy 🌿 Wild Boy 🌳 Pastoral Adventure

Summer of the Mariposas

parašė Guadalupe Garcia McCall • 2012

Five sisters smuggle a body into Mexico and stumble into a world of living folklore.

3.50

3 000+

🏛️ Odyssey Retelling 🇲🇽 Mexican Folklore 👯 Sisterly Quest

Summer of the Mariposas

Five sisters smuggle a body into Mexico and stumble into a world of living folklore.

parašė Guadalupe Garcia McCall 2012 352 puslapiai

3.50

3 000+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Odyssey Retelling 🇲🇽 Mexican Folklore 👯 Sisterly Quest

Gods and Robots

parašė Adrienne Mayor • 2018

Ancient Greeks imagined robots, AI, and the ethics we still wrestle with, long before the tech.

3.73

500+

🏛️ Classical Mythology ⚙️ Ancient Technology 🤖 Ancient Robots

Gods and Robots

Ancient Greeks imagined robots, AI, and the ethics we still wrestle with, long before the tech.

parašė Adrienne Mayor 2018 407 puslapiai

3.73

500+ įvertinimai

🏛️ Classical Mythology ⚙️ Ancient Technology 🤖 Ancient Robots

Lives of the Trees

parašė Diana Wells • 2010

Almonds once meant hope, cypresses mourning. A cultural biography of the trees that shaped history.

3.79

287

🌳 Cultural Botany 📖 Tree Lore 🗣️ Plant Folklore

Lives of the Trees

Almonds once meant hope, cypresses mourning. A cultural biography of the trees that shaped history.

parašė Diana Wells 2010 369 puslapiai

3.79

287 įvertinimai

🌳 Cultural Botany 📖 Tree Lore 🗣️ Plant Folklore

Tar Baby

parašė Toni Morrison • 1981

A shipwrecked man draws a glamorous model into a love pitting her ambition against his roots.

4.00

24 000+

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 🔮 Modern Folktale 👻 Haunted By Ancestors

Tar Baby

A shipwrecked man draws a glamorous model into a love pitting her ambition against his roots.

parašė Toni Morrison 1981 305 puslapiai

4.00

24 000+ įvertinimai

🏚️ Caribbean Gothic 🔮 Modern Folktale 👻 Haunted By Ancestors

Princess Bari

parašė Hwang Sok-yong • 2007

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

3.72

1 000+

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma

Princess Bari

Abandoned at birth, a seventh daughter carries a shaman's gift from famine to London's margins.

parašė Hwang Sok-yong 2007 305 puslapiai

3.72

1 000+ įvertinimai

📜 Mythic Retelling 🌀 Shamanic Journey 💔 Generational Trauma

American Aloha

parašė Heather A. Diamond • 2008

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

4.20

🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies

American Aloha

A hula stage on the National Mall: how festivals manufacture tradition and erase a colonial past.

parašė Heather A. Diamond 2008 280 puslapiai

4.20

10 įvertinimai

🏛️ Public Folklore 🧳 Cultural Tourism 🎪 Festival Studies

Ark of bones and other stories

parašė Henry Dumas • 1970

A soulboat carries ancestral bones down the Mississippi. A jazz horn kills. Cotton fields ignite.

4.34

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🦴 Ancestral Memory 🌑 Racial Terror

Ark of bones and other stories

A soulboat carries ancestral bones down the Mississippi. A jazz horn kills. Cotton fields ignite.

parašė Henry Dumas 1970 139 puslapiai

4.34

59 įvertinimai

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🦴 Ancestral Memory 🌑 Racial Terror

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