A Year of Folkore, Myth and Magic
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A Treasury of British Folklore : Maypoles, Mandrakes and Mistletoe
An entertaining and engrossing collection of British customs, superstitions and legends from past and present. Did you know, in Cumbria it was believed a person lying on a pillow stuffed with pigeon's feathers could not die? Or that green is an unlucky colour for...- £12.99
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Cloven Country : The Devil and the English Landscape
According to legend, the English landscape �_" so calm on the surface �_" is really the Devil�_Ts work. Cloven Country tells of rocks hurled into place and valleys carved out by infernal labour. The Devil�_Ts hideous strength laid down great roads in one night,...- £20.00
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Collected Folk Tales
From the author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Treacle Walker and the Carnegie Medal and Guardian Children's Fiction Prize-winning classic, The Owl Service The definitive collection of traditional folk tales, selected and retold by the renowned Alan Garner. A collection of Alan's folk tales, told...- £9.99
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Cornish Horrors : Tales from the Land's End
A mariner inherits a skull that screams incessantly along with the roar of the sea; a phantom hare stalks the moors to deliver justice for a crime long dead; a man witnesses a murder in the woods near St. Ives, only to wonder whether...- £9.99
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Fearsome Fairies : Haunting Tales of the Fae
You see - no, you do not, but I see - such curious faces: and the people to whom they belong flit about so oddly, often at your elbow when you least expect it, and looking close into your face, as if they were...- £16.99
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Folk Tales of the Night : Stories for Campfires, Bedtime and Nocturnal Adventures
An enchanting treasury of magical tales handed down through the ages. Infectious and soul-stirring, these are stories crying out to be shared.' - Ben Hoare, award winning wildlife journalist and nature nerdHave you heard the tale of Black Annis, the witch-demon that lurks beneath...- £14.99
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Ghostland : In Search of a Haunted Country
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE 2020 `A uniquely strange and wonderful work of literature' Philip Hoare `An exciting new voice' Mark Cocker, author of Crow Country In his late thirties, Edward Parnell found himself trapped in the recurring nightmare of a family tragedy....- £12.99
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Hollow Places : An Unusual History of Land and Legend
`Impossible to summarise and delightfully absorbing, Hadley's book is comfortably the most unexpected history book of the year'�Sunday Times A luminous journey through a thousand years of folklore and English history. Once upon a time in a Hertfordshire field, an ancient yew tree hid...- £12.99
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Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER, January 2022A TIMES HISTORICAL FICTION BOOK OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR WATERSTONES BOOK OF THE YEARA BBC HISTORY MAG BOOK OF THE YEARA DAILY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEAR'Expressive, bold and quite beautiful' The Lady'[a] delight of a book' Antonia Senior,...- £12.99
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The Anthology of Scottish Folk Tales
This enchanting collection of stories gathers together legends from across Scotland in one special volume. Drawn from The History Press' popular Folk Tales series, herein lies a treasure trove of tales from a wealth of talented storytellers. From the Spaeman's peculiar advice and a...- £12.99
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The Fairy Tellers : A Journey into the Secret History of Fairy Tales
His cornucopia of tellers and tales is a delight, a riveting celebration of a genre that revels in its own hybridity and the imaginative riches produced by the crossing of cultural and literary borders' Financial Times'Like a child after the Pied Piper I pursued...- £12.99
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Weird Woods : Tales from the Haunted Forests of Britain
Woods play an important and recurring role in horror, fantasy, the gothic and the weird. They are places in which strange things happen, where you often can't see where you are or what is around you. Supernatural creatures thrive in the thickets. Trees reach...- £9.99
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