Comparative Mythology books

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The Power of Myth
The Power of Myth 4.26 avg rating β€” 53,108 ratings
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The Hero with a Thousand Faces
The Hero with a Thousand Faces 4.13 avg rating β€” 44,166 ratings
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Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race
Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race 4.24 avg rating β€” 55 ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 1: Primitive Mythology 4.27 avg rating β€” 4,288 ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 4: Creative Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 4: Creative Mythology 4.29 avg rating β€” 1,740 ratings
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Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale
Once Upon a Time: A Short History of Fairy Tale 3.71 avg rating β€” 1,208 ratings
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Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal
Much Depends on Dinner: The Extraordinary History and Mythology, Allure and Obsessions, Perils and Taboos of an Ordinary Meal 3.88 avg rating β€” 846 ratings
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Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art
Trickster Makes This World: Mischief, Myth, and Art 4.18 avg rating β€” 1,980 ratings
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The Masonic Myth: Unlocking the Truth About the Symbols, the Secret Rites, and the History of Freemasonry
The Masonic Myth: Unlocking the Truth About the Symbols, the Secret Rites, and the History of Freemasonry 3.53 avg rating β€” 231 ratings
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The New Golden Bough
The New Golden Bough 4.17 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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From Ritual to Romance
From Ritual to Romance 3.73 avg rating β€” 653 ratings
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The Myth of the Eternal Return
The Myth of the Eternal Return 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,272 ratings
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The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life (Learning to Live, #2)
The Wisdom of the Myths: How Greek Mythology Can Change Your Life (Learning to Live, #2)
by: Luc Ferry
3.87 avg rating β€” 498 ratings
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The Discovery of King Arthur
The Discovery of King Arthur 3.79 avg rating β€” 605 ratings
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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies
by: C.G. Jung
3.76 avg rating β€” 650 ratings
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Goddess of the North
Goddess of the North 3.43 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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Good and Evil In Myth and Legend
Good and Evil In Myth and Legend 3.55 avg rating β€” 40 ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 2: Oriental Mythology 4.28 avg rating β€” 2,428 ratings
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The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
The Mythology Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained
by: Various
4.06 avg rating β€” 1,236 ratings
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Guinevere
Guinevere 3.58 avg rating β€” 124 ratings
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The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology
The Masks of God, Volume 3: Occidental Mythology 4.33 avg rating β€” 1,851 ratings
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The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother
The Goddess: Myths of the Great Mother 2.92 avg rating β€” 12 ratings
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Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Weefolk
Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows & Weefolk 3.37 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance
The Ecstasy of Being: Mythology and Dance 3.96 avg rating β€” 74 ratings
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Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star
Heroines: Demigoddess, Prima Donna, Movie Star really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 23 ratings
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Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya
Breath on the Mirror: Mythic Voices and Visions of the Living Maya 4.03 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Parallel Myths
Parallel Myths 3.78 avg rating β€” 1,002 ratings
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Transformations of Myth Through Time
Transformations of Myth Through Time 4.21 avg rating β€” 736 ratings
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Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
Seduction and the Secret Power of Women: The Lure of Sirens and Mermaids
by: Meri Lao
3.84 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
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Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth
Sacred Narrative: Readings in the Theory of Myth 3.77 avg rating β€” 104 ratings
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The Story of World Mythologies: From Indigenous Tales to Classical Legends
The Story of World Mythologies: From Indigenous Tales to Classical Legends 3.33 avg rating β€” 60 ratings
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Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth
Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth 3.72 avg rating β€” 300 ratings
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The Sun Goddess: Myth, Legend and History
The Sun Goddess: Myth, Legend and History 4.23 avg rating β€” 13 ratings
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A Short History of Myth
A Short History of Myth 3.69 avg rating β€” 6,355 ratings
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Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women from the Ancient Celtic Tradition
Women in Celtic Myth: Tales of Extraordinary Women from the Ancient Celtic Tradition 3.94 avg rating β€” 266 ratings
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Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time
Time’s Arrow, Time’s Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time 3.90 avg rating β€” 457 ratings
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No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock
No Go, the Bogeyman: Scaring, Lulling, and Making Mock 4.03 avg rating β€” 257 ratings
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Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists. TWO VOLUMES
Peasant Customs and Savage Myths: Selections from the British Folklorists. TWO VOLUMES really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood
Off with Their Heads! Fairy Tales and the Culture of Childhood 3.99 avg rating β€” 273 ratings
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The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion
The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion 4.19 avg rating β€” 1,301 ratings
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Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth
Hamlet's Mill: An Essay Investigating the Origins of Human Knowledge and Its Transmission Through Myth 4.22 avg rating β€” 832 ratings
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When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition
When Dreams Came True: Classical Fairy Tales and Their Tradition 3.93 avg rating β€” 90 ratings
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Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture 3.76 avg rating β€” 2,499 ratings
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The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales
The Witch Must Die: The Hidden Meaning of Fairy Tales 3.91 avg rating β€” 700 ratings
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The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History
The Myth of the Eternal Return or, Cosmos and History 4.22 avg rating β€” 3,272 ratings
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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology
Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology 3.71 avg rating β€” 667 ratings
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The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth
The Age of Homespun: Objects and Stories in the Creation of an American Myth 4.02 avg rating β€” 611 ratings
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The White Goddess
The White Goddess 4.02 avg rating β€” 3,613 ratings
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The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series
The Myths and Gods of India: The Classic Work on Hindu Polytheism from the Princeton Bollingen Series really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 135 ratings
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Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization
Myths and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilization 4.26 avg rating β€” 393 ratings
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John Brown in Memory and Myth
John Brown in Memory and Myth 4.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Mythic Image
The Mythic Image 4.39 avg rating β€” 504 ratings
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The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature
The Search for the Giant Squid: The Biology and Mythology of the World's Most Elusive Sea Creature 3.70 avg rating β€” 620 ratings
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The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture
The Time Falling Bodies Take To Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture 4.33 avg rating β€” 174 ratings
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Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse
Western Rivermen, 1763–1861: Ohio and Mississippi Boatmen and the Myth of the Alligator Horse really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 6 ratings
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The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge
The Earth: From Myths to Knowledge 3.77 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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Greek Mythic History
Greek Mythic History 4.12 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India's Mythological Art
Gods in Print: Masterpieces of India's Mythological Art 4.75 avg rating β€” 16 ratings
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Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction
Egyptian Myth: A Very Short Introduction 3.66 avg rating β€” 346 ratings
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The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism
The Wild Man: Medieval Myth and Symbolism 3.71 avg rating β€” 7 ratings
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The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science
The Griffin and the Dinosaur: How Adrienne Mayor Discovered a Fascinating Link Between Myth and Science 4.02 avg rating β€” 229 ratings
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Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth
Romance of the Grail: The Magic and Mystery of Arthurian Myth 4.09 avg rating β€” 388 ratings
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The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast
The Phoenix: An Unnatural Biography of a Mythical Beast 3.52 avg rating β€” 31 ratings
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β€œAll the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans
β€œAll the Real Indians Died Off”: And 20 Other Myths About Native Americans 4.11 avg rating β€” 1,927 ratings
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Myths and Modern Man
Myths and Modern Man 3.44 avg rating β€” 18 ratings
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Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology
Ink-Stained Amazons and Cinematic Warriors: Superwomen in Modern Mythology 3.92 avg rating β€” 169 ratings
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Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology
Souvenirs of the Old South: Northern Tourism and Southern Mythology really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 3 ratings
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Bear: Myth, Animal, Icon
Bear: Myth, Animal, Icon 3.93 avg rating β€” 57 ratings
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The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History
The Myth of the Lost Cause and Civil War History 3.90 avg rating β€” 343 ratings
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Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story
Johnny Appleseed: The Man, the Myth, the American Story 3.23 avg rating β€” 248 ratings
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The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy
The Forge and the Crucible: The Origins and Structure of Alchemy 4.16 avg rating β€” 758 ratings
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The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion
The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion 4.11 avg rating β€” 8,892 ratings
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Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy
Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy 4.21 avg rating β€” 2,630 ratings
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Siva: The Erotic Ascetic (Galaxy Books)
Siva: The Erotic Ascetic (Galaxy Books) 3.84 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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The Implied Spider: Politics & Theology in Myth
The Implied Spider: Politics & Theology in Myth 3.62 avg rating β€” 120 ratings
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Erotic Spirituality and the Kamasutra
Erotic Spirituality and the Kamasutra 3.72 avg rating β€” 54 ratings
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Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes
Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes 3.72 avg rating β€” 80 ratings
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The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation
The Woman Who Pretended to Be Who She Was: Myths of Self-Imitation 3.76 avg rating β€” 38 ratings
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Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India
Splitting the Difference: Gender and Myth in Ancient Greece and India 3.32 avg rating β€” 53 ratings
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Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities
Dreams, Illusion, and Other Realities 3.61 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions) (Volume 6)
The Origins of Evil in Hindu Mythology (Hermeneutics (Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions) (Volume 6) 3.32 avg rating β€” 41 ratings
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The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry
The Ring of Truth: And Other Myths of Sex and Jewelry 3.30 avg rating β€” 47 ratings
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Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts
Women, Androgynes, and Other Mythical Beasts 3.75 avg rating β€” 51 ratings
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Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Śiva
Asceticism and Eroticism in the Mythology of Śiva 3.84 avg rating β€” 115 ratings
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What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History
What Reason Promises: Essays on Reason, Nature and History 1.40 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics
Beyond Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics 3.05 avg rating β€” 19 ratings
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Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics (The Terry Lectures Series)
Against Dharma: Dissent in the Ancient Indian Sciences of Sex and Politics (The Terry Lectures Series) 2.33 avg rating β€” 9 ratings
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Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana
Tales of Sex and Violence: Folklore, Sacrifice, and Danger in the Jaiminiya Brahmana 2.87 avg rating β€” 15 ratings
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Notes from a Mandala: Essays in the History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger
Notes from a Mandala: Essays in the History of Indian Religions in Honor of Wendy Doniger 3.50 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions
Karma and Rebirth in Classical Indian Traditions 2.80 avg rating β€” 20 ratings
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Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India
Jewels of Authority: Women and Textual Tradition in Hindu India really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 8 ratings
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Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice
Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice 3.20 avg rating β€” 5 ratings
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Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation
Authority, Anxiety, and Canon: Essays in Vedic Interpretation really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 4 ratings
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Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary
Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary it was ok 2.00 avg rating β€” 2 ratings
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The Vampire: A Casebook
The Vampire: A Casebook 3.77 avg rating β€” 206 ratings
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Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore
Holy Writ as Oral Lit: The Bible as Folklore 3.73 avg rating β€” 103 ratings
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Cinderella: A Casebook
Cinderella: A Casebook 3.97 avg rating β€” 88 ratings
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Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook
Little Red Riding Hood: A Casebook 3.71 avg rating β€” 59 ratings
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Interpreting Folklore
Interpreting Folklore really liked it 4.00 avg rating β€” 70 ratings
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International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore
International Folkloristics: Classic Contributions by the Founders of Folklore 3.92 avg rating β€” 24 ratings
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