Download or read book Faith and Folklore of the British Isles written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles written by W. Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faith and Folklore of the British Isles written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mythology of the British Isles written by Geoffrey Ashe and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the 9th century AD, Ashe shows how they interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaeological research.
Download or read book Faiths Folklore of the British Isles written by William C. Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1972-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Faiths and Folklore of the British Isles written by William Carew Hazlitt and published by . This book was released on 1972-08 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gods Heroes Kings written by Christopher R. Fee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2004-03-18 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The islands of Britain have been a crossroads of gods, heroes, and kings-those of flesh as well as those of myth-for thousands of years. Successive waves of invasion brought distinctive legends, rites, and beliefs. The ancient Celts displaced earlier indigenous peoples, only to find themselves displaced in turn by the Romans, who then abandoned the islands to Germanic tribes, a people themselves nearly overcome in time by an influx of Scandinavians. With each wave of invaders came a battle for the mythic mind of the Isles as the newcomer's belief system met with the existing systems of gods, legends, and myths. In Gods, Heroes, and Kings, medievalist Christopher Fee and veteran myth scholar David Leeming unearth the layers of the British Isles' unique folkloric tradition to discover how this body of seemingly disparate tales developed. The authors find a virtual battlefield of myths in which pagan and Judeo-Christian beliefs fought for dominance, and classical, Anglo-Saxon, Germanic, and Celtic narrative threads became tangled together. The resulting body of legends became a strange but coherent hybrid, so that by the time Chaucer wrote "The Wife of Bath's Tale" in the fourteenth century, a Christian theme of redemption fought for prominence with a tripartite Celtic goddess and the Arthurian legends of Sir Gawain-itself a hybrid mythology. Without a guide, the corpus of British mythology can seem impenetrable. Taking advantage of the latest research, Fee and Leeming employ a unique comparative approach to map the origins and development of one of the richest folkloric traditions. Copiously illustrated with excerpts in translation from the original sources,Gods, Heroes, and Kings provides a fascinating and accessible new perspective on the history of British mythology.
Download or read book The Fairy faith in Celtic Countries written by Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1911 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study, which is first of all a folk-lore study, we pursue principally an anthropo-psychological method of interpreting the Celtic belief in fairies, though we do not hesitate now and then to call in the aid of philology; and we make good use of the evidence offered by mythologies, religions, metaphysics, and physical sciences.
Download or read book The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles written by Ronald Hutton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1991 with total page 397 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Stone Age to the coming of Christianity. Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data to reveal some important rethinking about Christianization and the decline of paganism.
Download or read book Folklore of the British Isles written by Eleanor Hull and published by London, Methuen. This book was released on 1928 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Pagan Religions of the Ancient British Isles written by Ronald Hutton and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1993-12-08 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first survey of religious beliefs in the British Isles from the Old Stone Age to the coming of Christianity, one of the least familiar periods in Britain's history. Ronald Hutton draws upon a wealth of new data, much of it archaeological, that has transformed interpretation over the past decade. Giving more or less equal weight to all periods, from the Neolithic to the Middle Ages, he examines a fascinating range of evidence for Celtic and Romano-British paganism, from burial sites, cairns, megaliths and causeways, to carvings, figurines, jewellery, weapons, votive objects, literary texts and folklore.
Download or read book The Vanishing People a Study of Traditional Fairy Beliefs written by Katharine Mary Briggs and published by B. T. Batsford Limited. This book was released on 1978 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studie van de hoofdfiguren in sprookjes/volksverhalen van Groot-Brittannië en Ierland, waarbij bovennatuurlijke vermogens beschreven worden
Download or read book The Sacred Isle written by Dáithí Ó hÓgáin and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 1999 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ancient monuments, legends and folklore interpreted to illuminate the realities of prehistoric Irish belief. The myths and legends of prehistoric Ireland have inspired writers through the ages, down to W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in our own century, but what do we know of the realities of ancient Irish belief? Daithi O hOgain's book approaches the question by studying archaeological remains such as tumuli, stone henges and circular enclosures and analysing the rich materials that have been handed down both in the great cycles of Irish heroic tales and the humblebut significant survivals of modern folklore, for instance the traditions associated with wells and springs. Drawing evidence from these varied sources, he arrives at a balanced picture of a society and its beliefs which have alltoo often been the subject of conjecture and fancy. CONTENTS Pre-Celtic Cultures . Basic Tenets in the Iron Age . The Druids and their Practices . The Teachings of the Druids . The Society of the Gods . The Rites of Sovereignty . The Triumph of Christianity. DAITHI O HOGAIN was Professor of Folklore at University College Dublin.
Download or read book Mythology of the British Isles written by Geoffrey Ashe and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries written by W. Y. Evans-Wentz and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries is a study by W. Y. Evans-Wentz, American anthropologist who studied Celtic mythology and folklore. He performed ethnographic fieldwork collecting fairy folklore in Wales, Scotland, Ireland, Cornwall, Brittany, and the Isle of Man, and in this book he published his degree thesis. His goal was to elucidate the phenomenon of the Celtic belief in fairies. Some of the theories he came across are that the fairies were a cloistered race of dwarfs, that they are a product of our imagination, or that they are incorporeal spirits.
Download or read book The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland written by Charles Squire and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Mythology of Ancient Britain and Ireland" is one of the finest titles within the early 20th century creation series, penned by Charles Squire, and somewhat refining the same ideas in Anwyl's "Celtic Religion."It traces the linguistic and mythological development of Arthurian and similar folklore and pseudohistory in the British Isles from their ancient ancestry many, many centuries prior, with Celtic deities and forces which were transmogrified over time in accordance with the adopting of Christianity, and changing political and social tides.
