Download or read book Fiery Spirits written by Ayanna Black and published by Harper Perennial. This book was released on 1994 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent was published in 1992, it offered a forum for an immensely talented group of Canadian writers. Such emerging writers as Lawrence Hill, Rozena Maart, George Elliott Clarke and Cecil Foster joined company with internationally renowned writers Daffy Laferriere and Austin Clarke.Fiery Spirits, published two years later, presented another gathering of gifted Canadian Writers of African descent, including Dionne Brand, Dee September, Martha Kumsa and Gerard Etienne. Now married in one seminal volume, Fiery spirits & Voices is a rich and vibrant celebration of the colorful quilt that is Canadian-African literature -- and an opportunity to explore some of the earlier work of this evolving and vital part of our literary community.These are short fiction pieces and poems that often push hard at the literary traditions that sometimes confine them. There are Works of romantic love and sexual abuse; of feminism and racism; of belonging and displacement. Bringing together shared history and a diversity of contemporary experience, Fiery Spirits & Voices is a powerful and often moving compilation.
Download or read book Fiery Spirits Voices written by Ayanna Black and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2000 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Voices: Canadian Writers of African Descent was published in 1992, it offered a forum for an immensely talented group of Canadian writers. Such emerging writers as Lawrence Hill, Rozena Maart, George Elliott Clarke and Cecil Foster joined company with internationally renowned writers Daffy Laferriere and Austin Clarke. Fiery Spirits, published two years later, presented another gathering of gifted Canadian Writers of African descent, including Dionne Brand, Dee September, Martha Kumsa and Gerard Etienne. Now married in one seminal volume, Fiery spirits & Voices is a rich and vibrant celebration of the colorful quilt that is Canadian-African literature -- and an opportunity to explore some of the earlier work of this evolving and vital part of our literary community. These are short fiction pieces and poems that often push hard at the literary traditions that sometimes confine them. There are Works of romantic love and sexual abuse; of feminism and racism; of belonging and displacement. Bringing together shared history and a diversity of contemporary experience, Fiery Spirits & Voices is a powerful and often moving compilation.
Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert Lebling and published by Tauris Parke. This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world. According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Believed in by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and from all faiths, jinn have played a particularly central role in the literature, culture and belief systems of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Legends of the Fire Spirits explores through time and across nations the enduring phenomenon of the jinn. From North Africa to Central Asia, from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, this riveting, often chilling, yet reasoned book draws on ancient testimonies, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist's reports and traveller's tales to explore the different types of jinn, their behaviour, society, culture and long history of contact with humankind. It documents their links with famous figures in history such as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and illustrates the varied and vivid portrayals of jinn in world literature. In essence, Legends of the Fire Spirits demonstrates the colourful diversity of human culture and the durability of faith and is a magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world.
Download or read book Legends of the Fire Spirits written by Robert Lebling and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-30 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An energy, a pulse form of quantum physics perhaps, alive at the margins of sleep or madness, and more often in the whispering of a single unwelcome thought.' The Economist According to Islamic tradition, Allah created three types of beings: angels, made of light; humans, made of earth; and jinn, made of smokeless fire. Supernatural, shape-shifting, intelligent and blessed with free will and remarkable powers, jinn have over the ages been given many names - demon, spirit, ghoul, genie, ifrit and shaitan. Neither human nor immortal, they roam the earth inhabiting dark and empty places, luring humans to their deaths or demonically possessing them if harmed or offended. Despite the fact they cannot be seen, jinn are said to be strangely human-like - marrying, bearing children, forming communities and tribes, eating, sleeping, playing and facing judgement like any other human. They are ever-present partners in the human experience, causing endless mischief, providing amazing services and sometimes inducing sheer terror. Believed in by hundreds of millions of people throughout the world and from all faiths, jinn have played a particularly central role in the literature, culture and belief systems of the Middle East and the Islamic world. Legends of the Fire Spirits explores through time and across nations the enduring phenomenon of the jinn. From North Africa to Central Asia, from the Mediterranean to sub-Saharan Africa and beyond, this riveting, often chilling, yet reasoned book draws on long-forgotten ancient testimonies, medieval histories, colonial records, anthropologist's reports and traveller's tales to explore the different types of jinn, their behaviour, society, culture and long history of contact with humankind. It documents their links with famous figures in history such as King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba and illustrates the varied and vivid portrayals of jinn in world literature. In essence Legends of the Fire Spirits demonstrates the colourful diversity of human culture and the durability of faith and is a magnificent and indispensable portrayal of the rich folklore of the Islamic world.
Download or read book The Magitians Discovered Volume 1 written by John S. Madziarczyk and published by Topaz House Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1665 an anonymous treatise was added to a book skeptical of witchcraft. That book, "The Discoverie of Witchcraft", compiled by Reginald Scot and published in 1584, defended those accused of witchcraft. It also included so many examples of rituals and charms that it became popular with magical practitioners themselves. Although the"Discoverie" has since been reprinted several times, the anonymous material has not been available for over a hundred years. This material features a combination of ceremonial magic, Paracelsian thought, pagan folk rituals, and spirits from John Dee's "A True & Faithful Relation", all mixed into a synthetic whole. "The Magitians Discovered" Volume I is an analysis of who the authors of the anonymous material were, what their worldview was, and what their motivations may have been in assembling and inserting the anonymous material.
Download or read book Fire Tales of Elemental Spirits written by Robin McKinley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storytellers Robin McKinley and Peter Dickinson, the team behind Water: Tales of Elemental Spirits, collaborate again to create five captivating tales incorporating the element of fire. In McKinley?s ?First Flight,? a boy and his pet foogit unexpectedly take a dangerous ride on a dragon, and her ?Hellhound? stars a mysterious dog as a key player in an eerie graveyard showdown. Dickinson introduces a young man who must defeat the creature threatening his clan in ?Fireworm,? a slave who saves his village with a fiery magic spell in ?Salamander Man,? and a girl whose new friend, the guardian of a mystical bird, is much older than he appears in ?Phoenix.? With time periods ranging from prehistoric to present day, and settings as varied as a graveyard, a medieval marketplace and a dragon academy, these stories are sure to intrigue and delight the authors? longtime fans and newcomers alike.
Download or read book The White King written by William Henry Davenport Adams and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Discoverie of Witchcraft In Two Volumes written by Reginald Scot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-22 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Download or read book Classical Arabic Humanities in Their Own Terms written by Beatrice Gruendler and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The volume brings together approaches to different elements of Arabic-Islamic civilization, mainly in the areas of linguistics, literature, literary theory, and prosody, but also including religion, ritual, economics, and zoology. Contributions also touch upon the adjacent areas of the Old Iranian, Persian, Greek and Byzantine written traditions. Some take as their points of departure specific Arabic words (cat, giraffe) or morphemes; others explore literary genres, subgenres (oration, ode, macaronic poem, travel narrative) or figures within them (the trickster, the devil). Cultural concepts such as wishing, gift-giving or discourse are treated, as are aspects of broader phenomena, such as the role of gender in dream interpretation or the relative merits of luxury goods and mass-produced commodities.
Download or read book The Rostical Users Sceldrant s Comet written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-12-12 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written like it's a script from a video game, a manga and RPG inspired story follows unlikely 'heroes' to stop the Consultant's wicked plans!Our heroes explore uncharted sanctums known as the Unknown Territories, each with an ancient glyph at the end.The Consultants have been activating these glyphs, one by one. The secret behind the glyphs are currently unknown.Help our heroes discover the meaning behind the glyphs and its secrets!Writer: "The Rostical Users is about several teenagers who all work in the Fast Food industry, they have plain ordinary lives until the arrival of 'Sceldrant's Comet'."Reader: "Sceldrant's Comet?"Writer: "After a strange reaction to a crystal Lance picked up, they suddenly found themselves in a strange world."Reader: "Sounds boring!"Writer: "After encountering frightening Scoldrants and enemies with magical powers, they set off to try and find a way home. Little did they know the Consultants won't let them."
Download or read book The Fairy Mythology written by Thomas Keightley and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An Industrious Mind written by J. Sears McGee and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-18 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first biography of Sir Simonds D'Ewes, a member of England's Long Parliament, Puritan, historian and antiquarian who lived from 1602–1650. D'Ewes took the Puritan side against the supporters of King Charles I in the English Civil War, and his extensive journal of the Long Parliament, together with his autobiography and correspondence, offer a uniquely comprehensive view of the life of a seventeenth-century English gentleman, his opinions, thoughts and prejudices during this tumultuous time. D'Ewes left the most extensive archive of personal papers of any individual in early modern Europe. His life and thought before the Long Parliament are carefully analyzed, so that the mind of one of the Parliamentarian opponents of King Charles I's policies can be understood more fully than that of any other Member of Parliament. Although conservative in social and political terms, D'Ewes's Puritanism prevented him from joining his Royalist younger brother Richard during the civil war that began in 1642. D'Ewes collected one of the largest private libraries of books and manuscripts in England in his era and used them to pursue historical and antiquarian research. He followed news of national and international events voraciously and conveyed his opinions of them to his friends in many hundreds of letters. McGee's biography is the first thorough exploration of the life and ideas of this extraordinary observer, offering fresh insight into this pivotal time in European history.
Download or read book Tales Of written by Michael Rogers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the final and epic installment, our guild members transition from heroes to saviours and end the world's calamity and disease. As our heroes' tale reaches its conclusion, what will happen to the yellow-eyed disease? What will happen to the racism, sexism and discrimination? From rebuilding cities, hilarious plays, a singing performance, heartwarming confessions, powers that transcend our dimension and awfully bad puns, The Rostical Guild has everything one could ask for in the final season of the series! The entire guild hopes you have enjoyed over thirty hours of projected game time and if you laughed and cried with them! Thank you for saving the world with us!
Download or read book Radical Human Ecology written by Rose Roberts and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Human ecology - the study and practice of relationships between the natural and the social environment - has gained prominence as scholars seek more effectively to engage with pressing global concerns. In the past seventy years most human ecology has skirted the fringes of geography, sociology and biology. This volume pioneers radical new directions. In particular, it explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Aimed at an international readership, its contributors show that an inter-cultural and transdisciplinary approach is required. The demands of our era require a scholarship of ontological depth: an approach that can not just debate issues, but also address questions of practice and meaning. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand - this volume covers the following key research areas: Theories of Human Ecology Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology Research practice in Human Ecology The researcher-researched relationship Research priorities for a holistic world With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.
