Mythology, Legends and Folklore of the Americas

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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4.06 avg rating β€” 71,344 ratings
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More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark 4.11 avg rating β€” 20,125 ratings
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More Tales to Chill Your Bones
More Tales to Chill Your Bones 4.15 avg rating β€” 17,587 ratings
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The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology
The Trickster: A Study in American Indian Mythology 3.84 avg rating β€” 255 ratings
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Gods of Jade and Shadow
Gods of Jade and Shadow 3.88 avg rating β€” 74,721 ratings
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The Rough-Face Girl
The Rough-Face Girl 4.39 avg rating β€” 12,602 ratings
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Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales
Her Stories: African American Folktales, Fairy Tales, and True Tales 4.39 avg rating β€” 619 ratings
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American Indian Trickster Tales
American Indian Trickster Tales 3.85 avg rating β€” 301 ratings
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Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories
Rip Van Winkle and Other Stories 3.53 avg rating β€” 805 ratings
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Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection
Trickster: Native American Tales, A Graphic Collection 3.55 avg rating β€” 2,605 ratings
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales
The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales 4.30 avg rating β€” 1,674 ratings
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In the Kingdom of Mescal
In the Kingdom of Mescal 4.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Afro-American Folktales
Afro-American Folktales 3.97 avg rating β€” 117 ratings
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Latin American Folktales
Latin American Folktales 3.75 avg rating β€” 241 ratings
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American Writings
American Writings really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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American Indian Myths and Legends
American Indian Myths and Legends 4.08 avg rating β€” 5,376 ratings
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Arrow to the Sun
Arrow to the Sun 3.90 avg rating β€” 6,067 ratings
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Folk Tales of the North American Indians: Selected and Annotated
Folk Tales of the North American Indians: Selected and Annotated 4.19 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man
Treasury of Railroad Folklore: The Stories, Tall Tales, Traditions, Ballads and Songs of the American Railroad Man 4.23 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies )
Indian Legends from the Northern Rockies ) 3.85 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Native American Animal Stories
Native American Animal Stories 4.17 avg rating β€” 175 ratings
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston 3.71 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett
American Legend: The Real-Life Adventures of David Crockett 3.88 avg rating β€” 314 ratings
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American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings
American Indian Stories, Legends, and Other Writings 3.89 avg rating β€” 755 ratings
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The Piasa or the Devil Among the Indians
The Piasa or the Devil Among the Indians 4.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America
Coyote Stories for Children: Tales from Native America 4.18 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition
Folk Nation: Folklore in the Creation of American Tradition 4.31 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition
Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me: African American Narrative Poetry from Oral Tradition 4.37 avg rating β€” 30 ratings
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Folktales of Mexico
Folktales of Mexico 4.06 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Tales From the Smokehouse
Tales From the Smokehouse 3.80 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Tales of the North American Indians
Tales of the North American Indians 3.58 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter
The Bedbugs' Night Dance and Other Hopi Tales of Sexual Encounter 4.18 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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Pecos Bill Finds a Horse
Pecos Bill Finds a Horse 3.33 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area: Introduction, Notes, and Classification (American Folklore Society Memoir nΒΊ 56) (Spanish Edition)
Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area: Introduction, Notes, and Classification (American Folklore Society Memoir nΒΊ 56) (Spanish Edition) 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Once Upon A Time, In Arkansas...: Tales of encounters with the Little People in Arkansas and neighboring regions
Once Upon A Time, In Arkansas...: Tales of encounters with the Little People in Arkansas and neighboring regions really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales
Grandfather Tales: American-English Folk Tales 4.18 avg rating β€” 128 ratings
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Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, #1)
Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky (Tristan Strong, #1) 4.17 avg rating β€” 10,513 ratings
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The Complete Illustrated History of the Inca Empire: A comprehensive encyclopedia of the Incas and other ancient peoples of South America, with more than 1000 photographs
The Complete Illustrated History of the Inca Empire: A comprehensive encyclopedia of the Incas and other ancient peoples of South America, with more than 1000 photographs 3.64 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The Angry Moon
The Angry Moon 3.49 avg rating β€” 160 ratings
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Storytellers at the Columbia River
Storytellers at the Columbia River 4.07 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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The Ancient
The Ancient 3.56 avg rating β€” 180 ratings
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El Guahaihoque: El horror de un secuestro, la oscuridad de su libertad
El Guahaihoque: El horror de un secuestro, la oscuridad de su libertad 4.81 avg rating β€” 21 ratings
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An Author's Guide to Monsters
An Author's Guide to Monsters it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Annotated African American Folktales
The Annotated African American Folktales 4.55 avg rating β€” 155 ratings
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Paul Bunyan and His Blue Ox
Paul Bunyan and His Blue Ox 3.56 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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One Potato, Two Potato: The Folklore of American Children
One Potato, Two Potato: The Folklore of American Children 3.97 avg rating β€” 33 ratings
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American Elves: An Encyclopedia of Little People from the Lore of 380 Ethnic Groups of the Western Hemisphere
American Elves: An Encyclopedia of Little People from the Lore of 380 Ethnic Groups of the Western Hemisphere it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Jack Tales
The Jack Tales 4.21 avg rating β€” 403 ratings
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Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire
Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire 4.57 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Eye of the Needle: Based on a Yupik Tale
The Eye of the Needle: Based on a Yupik Tale really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 63 ratings
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12.21.12: The Vessel
12.21.12: The Vessel 3.60 avg rating β€” 660 ratings
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Through Dry Places
Through Dry Places 4.17 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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Popular beliefs and superstitions: A compendium of American folklore : from the Ohio Collection of Newbell Niles Puckett
Popular beliefs and superstitions: A compendium of American folklore : from the Ohio Collection of Newbell Niles Puckett it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Rootabaga Stories
Rootabaga Stories 4.06 avg rating β€” 749 ratings
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Snowbear Whittington: An Appalachian Beauty and the Beast
Snowbear Whittington: An Appalachian Beauty and the Beast 3.97 avg rating β€” 172 ratings
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Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire Part 1
Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire Part 1 4.67 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Buffalo Woman
Buffalo Woman 4.05 avg rating β€” 304 ratings
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The Hungry Woman: Myths and Legends of the Aztecs
The Hungry Woman: Myths and Legends of the Aztecs 3.58 avg rating β€” 43 ratings
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New England's Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries
New England's Gothic Literature: History and Folklore of the Supernatural from the Seventeenth Through the Twentieth Centuries 4.43 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman
The Legend of the White Buffalo Woman 4.08 avg rating β€” 181 ratings
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Mirror of Lida Sal: Tales Based on Mayan Myths and Guatemalan Legends
Mirror of Lida Sal: Tales Based on Mayan Myths and Guatemalan Legends 3.54 avg rating β€” 188 ratings
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Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books)
Step It Down: Games, Plays, Songs, and Stories from the Afro-American Heritage (Brown Thrasher Books) 4.27 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale
Little Gold Star: A Spanish American Cinderella Tale 3.87 avg rating β€” 349 ratings
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The Great Race of the Birds and Animals
The Great Race of the Birds and Animals 4.11 avg rating β€” 98 ratings
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To See a Witch
To See a Witch it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Ghosts! Ghostly Tales from Folklore
Ghosts! Ghostly Tales from Folklore 3.88 avg rating β€” 392 ratings
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Form and Fable in American Fiction
Form and Fable in American Fiction 3.75 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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In the Land of the Micmacs: of Elves and Indians
In the Land of the Micmacs: of Elves and Indians 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Cendrillon : A Caribbean Cinderella
Cendrillon : A Caribbean Cinderella 4.06 avg rating β€” 1,831 ratings
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Close to the Rising Sun: Algonquin Indian Legends
Close to the Rising Sun: Algonquin Indian Legends 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Why the North Star Stands Still
Why the North Star Stands Still 4.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Native American Myths & Legends
Native American Myths & Legends 3.60 avg rating β€” 25 ratings
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Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El TajΓ­n (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies)
Lightning Gods and Feathered Serpents: The Public Sculpture of El TajΓ­n (The Linda Schele Series in Maya and Pre-Columbian Studies) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Manabozho's Gifts: Three Chippewa Tales
Manabozho's Gifts: Three Chippewa Tales 3.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Native American Myths
Native American Myths 3.84 avg rating β€” 50 ratings
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Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South
Singing the Master: The Emergence of African-American Culture in the Plantation South 3.86 avg rating β€” 22 ratings
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The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural
The Dark-Thirty: Southern Tales of the Supernatural 3.92 avg rating β€” 2,180 ratings
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Daniel Boone: Man of the Forests
Daniel Boone: Man of the Forests 3.33 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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The Mythology of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Mythical Places from North, South and Central America
The Mythology of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Gods, Goddesses, Monsters and Mythical Places from North, South and Central America 3.83 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Readings in American Folklore
Readings in American Folklore 3.25 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition: Sacred Texts and Images from Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America
The Flayed God: The Mesoamerican Mythological Tradition: Sacred Texts and Images from Pre-Columbian Mexico and Central America 4.20 avg rating β€” 45 ratings
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Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story
Sootface: An Ojibwa Cinderella Story 4.07 avg rating β€” 479 ratings
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John Chapman: The Man Who Was Johnny Appleseed
John Chapman: The Man Who Was Johnny Appleseed really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 11 ratings
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The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Indian Mythology: Legends, Gods and Spirits of North, Central and South America
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of American Indian Mythology: Legends, Gods and Spirits of North, Central and South America 3.64 avg rating β€” 14 ratings
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The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings
The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings 3.72 avg rating β€” 1,020 ratings
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Treasury of American Tall Tales: Volume 1: Davy Crockett, Rip Van Winkle, Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan
Treasury of American Tall Tales: Volume 1: Davy Crockett, Rip Van Winkle, Johnny Appleseed, Paul Bunyan 3.82 avg rating β€” 39 ratings
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Ole Time Sayin's: Proverbs of the West Indies
Ole Time Sayin's: Proverbs of the West Indies 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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Fairy Tales of Mexico
Fairy Tales of Mexico really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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Land of the Five Suns
Land of the Five Suns 2.50 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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American Folklore
American Folklore 3.48 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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In the Seven Mountains: Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania
In the Seven Mountains: Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania 3.58 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Moss Gown
Moss Gown 4.07 avg rating β€” 363 ratings
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Tales from the First Americans
Tales from the First Americans 0.00 avg rating β€” 0 ratings
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The Marvelous Adventures of Johnny Caesar Cicero Darling
The Marvelous Adventures of Johnny Caesar Cicero Darling liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 1 rating
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Dreamcatcher
Dreamcatcher 3.48 avg rating β€” 77 ratings
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Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies
Shingling the Fog and Other Plains Lies 3.82 avg rating β€” 17 ratings
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Sand In the Bag and Other Folk Stories of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois
Sand In the Bag and Other Folk Stories of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois liked it 3.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend
Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry: the Untold Story of an American Legend 3.76 avg rating β€” 368 ratings
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American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends
American Indian Stories and Old Indian Legends 4.01 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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The Sacred Mountain of Colombia's Kogi Indians (Iconography of Religions)
The Sacred Mountain of Colombia's Kogi Indians (Iconography of Religions) 3.67 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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