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Roaming Gnomes

Author : Don Guthrie

Publisher : Outskirts Press

Page : 190 pages

File Size : 40,83 MB

Release : 2016-04-20

Category : Travel

ISBN : 1478772328

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This book is all about exciting and fun adventures that along the way created many challenges from one extreme to the next. We step into the realm of the unknown not knowing from which direction it will come at you and will or can you survive on a journey through a forest of roads with no end. This book asks the reader as if you were there what and could you do if this was you. It challenges today's mind set and leaves a lot to your imagination as to the endless possibilities and outcomes. This book gives you first hand experiences to give you a clear vision on exactly what fits you and what you become by taking this head on and cause you to run with what is handed to you in this life.



What Happens Next?

Author : Gail de Vos

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 42,23 MB

Release : 2012-06-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN :

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This fascinating book uncovers the history behind urban legends and explains how the contemporary iterations of familiar fictional tales provide a window into the modern concerns—and digital advancements—of our society. What do ghost hunting, legend tripping, and legendary monsters have in common with email hoaxes, chain letters, and horror movies? In this follow-up to Libraries Unlimited's Tales, Rumors, and Gossip: Exploring Contemporary Folk Literature in Grades 7–12, author Gail de Vos revisits popular urban legends, and examines the impact of media—online, social, and broadcast—on their current iterations. What Happens Next? Contemporary Urban Legends and Popular Culture traces the evolution of contemporary legends from the tradition of oral storytelling to the sharing of stories on the Internet and TV. The author examines if the popularity of contemporary legends in the media has changed the form, role, and integrity of familiar legends. In addition to revisiting some of the legends highlighted in her first book, de Vos shares new tales in circulation which she sees as a direct result of technological advancements.



Encyclopedia of Urban Legends [2 volumes]

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 911 pages

File Size : 45,37 MB

Release : 2012-07-16

Category : Social Science

ISBN :

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This revised edition of the original reference standard for urban legends provides an updated anthology of common myths and stories, and presents expanded coverage of international legends and tales shared and popularized online. From roasted babies to vanishing hitchhikers to housewives in football helmets, this exhaustive and highly readable encyclopedia provides descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, examines legend themes, and explains scholarly approaches to the genre. Revised and expanded to include updated versions of the entries from the award-winning first edition, this work provides additional entries on a wide range of new topics that include terrorism, recent political events, and Hurricane Katrina. Entries in Encyclopedia of Urban Legends, Updated and Expanded Edition discuss the presence of urban legends in comic books, literature, film, music, and many other areas of popular culture, as well as the existence of "too good to be true" stories in Argentina, China, Italy, Japan, Mexico, and several other countries. Serving as both an anthology of stories as well as a reference work, this encyclopedia will serve as a valuable resource for students and a source book for journalists, professional folklorists, and others who are researching or interested in urban legends.



Interviews From the Fairy Realm

Author : Natalie Hajjar

Publisher : Wild Wisdom Media

Page : 320 pages

File Size : 48,21 MB

Release : 2022-07-09

Category : Body, Mind & Spirit

ISBN :

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★A BOOK THAT BRINGS YOU CLOSER TO THE REAL WORLD OF FAIRIES★ Since 2004, sisters Natalie and Susan Hajjar have had an extraordinary connection with a group of Elves known as the Elves of Fyn. Growing up, both sisters felt connected to other worlds, but neither gave the fairy realm or Elves much thought until they burst into their lives, making their presence known through a series of showy events and mischief. In this fascinating book, you will learn how the sisters went from not even thinking about fairies, to knowing about them in great detail. You will also get to know Mr. E, the kind and generous spokesperson for the Elves of Fyn, who is an important contributor to the book. After discovering how much misinformation existed about the fairy realm and those who live there, the sisters and Mr. E wanted to let the fae residents speak for themselves through Susan’s ability to channel. In this book, fourteen fae beings from beyond our world came forward to speak of their lives and their people. With the perfect combination of Susan’s channeling, Natalie’s interviews, and Mr. E’s insight, this book creates an amazingly accurate window into their world. It goes beyond all the mystique and falsehoods and offers a rare glimpse into the fascinating world of real fairies!



Curses! Broiled Again!

Author : Jan Harold Brunvand

Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company

Page : 338 pages

File Size : 16,17 MB

Release : 1990-08-17

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 0393346730

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From the master folklorist and sly wit, Jan Brunvand, comes a collection of all-new urban legends. Did your cousin's wife's dentist's daughter go to the tanning parlor once too often and had her insides cooked? Has your husband's brother's nephew teacher try to make a dead rabbit look alive? If so, you've heard—or you yourself may have told—two of the seventy-plus legends in this collection. Urban legends are "those bizarre but believable stories about batter-fried rats, spiders in hairdos, Cabbage Patch dolls that get funerals, and the like that pass by word of mouth as being the gospel truth." But of course, though often told as having happened to a FOAF (friend of a friend), they aren't true. Included in this collection are legends about sex, horror, cars, business, and academia. Among them are "The Bible Student's Exam," "The Pregnant Shoplifter," "The Ice Cream Cone Caper," "Don't Mess with Texas," and "Mrs. Fields' Cookie Recipe."



Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God

Author : Lucky Old Cat

Publisher : Cloudary Holdings Limited (webnovel)

Page : 354 pages

File Size : 24,54 MB

Release : 2019-01-16

Category : Young Adult Fiction

ISBN :

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[Webnovel provides the latest update of Reincarnation Of The Strongest Sword God] Starting over once more, he has entered this “living game” again in order to control his own fate. This time, he will not be controlled by others. Previously the Level 200 Sword King, he will rise to a higher peak in this life. Methods to earn money! Dungeon conquering strategies! Legendary Quests! Equipment drop locations! Undiscovered battle techniques! Even the secrets Beta Testers were unknowledgeable of, he knows of them all. Massive wars, life advancement, entering Godhood, sword reaching to the peak; a legend of a man becoming a Sword God has begun.



Gnome Home Papers

Author : S. Louis King

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 677 pages

File Size : 42,47 MB

Release : 2012-04

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1463433174

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Listen my friends, to your heart. What is it telling you? Go ahead and dream a little dream, see where it takes you. YouÊll be surprised at the turn of events with every page, each new friend or what happens to that nasty evil guy. Take that chance and let your heart take the lead, I dare you. Say those things that burn in your heart, that have on occasion been blurted out. Be that hero and go to places where you fear to tread. Need someone to go with you, thereÊs your buddy right beside you, sometime through thick and thin.



Tales, Rumors, and Gossip

Author : Gail de Vos

Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Page : 426 pages

File Size : 12,89 MB

Release : 1996-04-15

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 0313069875

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Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the tales are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos also discusses film and literary adaptions and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. Explore the stories and themes that capture the imagination of young people today. After a fascinating overview and discussion of contemporary legends (commonly referred to as modern urban legends and often told as true), de Vos examines them in their relationship to rumors and gossip, ostension (acting out the legends), the role of the media in formulation and dissemination, and related tales (e.g., literary horror tales). A sampling of tales is organized into broad subject areas, such as contaminated food, threats to children, and satanic legends, and the legends are analyzed according to function, structure, and international variants. De Vos discusses some of the literary and visual adaptations in popular culture and offers suggestions for adapting tales for the junior high and high school curriculum. A fascinating professional book, this is a great resource to use with young adults.



Folklore Rules

Author : Lynne S. McNeill

Publisher : University Press of Colorado

Page : 114 pages

File Size : 46,39 MB

Release : 2013-09-01

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 087421906X

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Folklore Rules is a brief introduction to the foundational concepts in folklore studies for beginning students. Designed to give essential background on the current study of folklore and some of the basic concepts and questions used when analyzing folklore, this short, coherent, and approachable handbook is divided into five chapters: What Is Folklore?; What Do Folklorists Do?; Types of Folklore; Types of Folk Groups; and, finally, What Do I Do Now? Through these chapters students are guided toward a working understanding of the field, learn basic terms and techniques, and learn to perceive the knowledge base and discourse frame for materials used in folklore courses. Folklore Rules will appeal to instructors and students for a variety of courses, including introductory folklore and comparative studies as well as literature, anthropology, and composition classes that include a folklore component.



Circumnavigating the Globe

Author : Jr. Perkins

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 310 pages

File Size : 25,11 MB

Release : 2009-11

Category :

ISBN : 1449011195

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"Circumnavigating the Globe" highlights international travel in a reality television show competition. This book covers what happened in Amazing Race (AR) 10 to 14 and Amazing Race Asia (ARA) 1 to 3. Many of the analysis chapters also cover AR1 to 9. Included are an Amazing Race Vocabulary and listing of all countries and major cities visited by all amazing races(ARs plus ARAs). There is an analysis chapter on Animals. The author rates the Saddest Elimination of every AR or ARA and Weakest Teams in each AR or ARA. Analyses shows why his Favorite Teams for each AR and ARA merit that distinction and one is selected as the most favorite of all time. The most interesting chapter in this book could be the Most Amazing Moments of each AR and ARA. Following that, every FAST FORWARD ever taken is listed with type of task, the geography and the competition if known. There is a separate classification of all AR teams into categories Female/Female, Male/Male, Couple and Family Relationships with the major reason for elimination listed if that team did not win. There are transportation chapters on travel by air, self-driving, taxis, boats, trains and buses. This book finishes with multiple indexes on Races, Racers, and the most cited Places. If you are a fan of the Amazing Race, this book will help you become a superfan.