Title: Armagh Folk Tales Writer: Frances Quinn Publishing House: THP Ireland Date of Publication: March 3rd 2014 Rating: 3 stars ‘’Like many counties in Ireland, stories are in the DNA of the people. The landscape is the fabric of the stories – what sews us together or unfortunately, at times, rips us apart. Stories are…
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Western Isles Folk Tales
Title: Western Isles Folk Tales Writer: Ian Stephen Publishing House: The History Press Date of Publication: February 1st 2015 (first published October 15th 2014) Rating: 5 stars “Where the Northern Ocean, in vast whirls, Boils round the naked, melancholy isles Of farthest Thule; and the Atlantic surge Pours in among the stormy Hebrides.” Charlotte Bronté…
Ceredigion Folk Tales
Title: Ceredigion Folk Tales Writer: Peter Stevenson Publishing House: The History Press Date of Publication: May 1st 2014 Rating: 5 stars ‘’These stories are of another world, an Otherworld so familiar to the folk of Ceredigion 100 years ago; exotic and enticing, dark and dangerous, curious and comical, a world of the marginalised and misunderstood,…
The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland
Title: The Hellebore Guide to Occult Britain and Northern Ireland Writer: Various edited by Maria J. Perez Cuervo Publishing House: Hellebore Date of Publication: December 2021 Rating: 5 stars This beautiful (BEAUTIFUL, I TELL YOU!!!!) guide is an outstanding journey within the heart of Britain and Northern Ireland and all their magical, witchy, ritualistic, occult…
Midwinter Folk Tales
Title: Midwinter Folk Tales Writer: Taffy Thomas Publishing House: The History Press Date of Publication: February 1st 2015 (first published October 15th 2014) Rating: 5 stars ‘’Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and a talk beside the fore, it is the time for…
Antrim Folk Tales
Title: Antrim Folk Tales Writer: Billy Teare & Kathleen O’Sullivan Publishing House: The History Press Ireland Date of Publication: February 1st 2014 Rating: 5 stars ”Folk tales are not defined by scholars and students of folklore. They are, very simply, the stories that people choose to tell, remember and retell time and again and they…
Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid’s Day
Title: Imbolc: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Brigid’s Day Writer: Carl F. Neal Publishing House: Llewellyn Publications Date of Publication: December 8th 2015 Rating: 4 stars ‘’When the dark days of winter seem to have gone on forever, the first sign of spring refreshes our souls. It is a promise that winter will not last…
Yule: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Winter Solstice
Title: Yule: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Winter Solstice Writer: Susan Pesznecker Publishing House: by Llewellyn Publications Date of Publication: October 1st 2015 Rating: 5 stars ‘’It’s the time when Mother Earth goes quiet, yet if we listen really carefully, we can still hear her heart beating. It’s a profound and important time to…
Light Rains Sometimes Fall
Title: Light Rains Sometimes Fall Writer: Lev Parikian Publishing House: Elliott & Thompson Date of Publication: September 16th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Look beyond and there is a gentle rise, streets populated with lines of houses, a repeating tessellation of London brick. On a good day, with the sun slanting on them from a certain…
Samhain: Rituals, Recipes and Lore for Halloween
Title: Samhain: Rituals, Recipes and Lore for Halloween Writer: Diana Rajchel Publishing House: Llewellyn Publications Date of Publication: September 1st 2015 Rating: 5 stars ‘’At Samhain, the circle of the year has come to its final spoke in the Wheel. At this time, the harvest has finished, the dying god interred, and the goddess has…
Ghost Stories of New York State
Title: Ghost Stories of New York State Writer: Susan Smitten Publishing House: Folklore Publishing Date of Publication: March 1st 2004 Rating: 5 stars ”Whether we accept the possibility of ghosts or reject it, it is clear that our past can haunt our present. Ghosts may be a reminder to make the most of our lives…
Leicestershire and Rutland Folk Tales
Τitle:Leicestershire and Rutland Folk Tales Writer: Leicestershire Guild of Storytelling Publishing House: The History Press Date of Publication: February 28th 2013 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Standing in the Great Hall, with the cold of the flagstoned floor underfoot and the dark timbers of the roof trusses above, the noise of our twenty-first century city is muffled….
Mabon: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Autumn Equinox
Title: Mabon: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for the Autumn Equinox Writer: Diana Rajchel Publishing House: Llewellyn Publications Date of Publication: July 1st 2015 Rating: 4 stars ‘’Harvest festivals celebrated more than finished work for the season; they celebrated the capacity to survive the winter.’’ Mabon is arguably the most obscure tradition of the Old Ways…
Lughnasadh: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Lammas
Title: Lughnasadh: Rituals, Recipes & Lore for Lammas Writer: Melanie Marquis Publishing House: Llewellyn Publications Date of Publication: June 1st 2015 Rating: 4 stars ‘’Like the promise of a rainbow, our first harvest of the season reassures us that if all continues to go well, we can expect more wholesome treasures own the road that…
Into the Tangled Bank
Title: Into the Tangled Bank Writer: Lev Parikian Publishing House: Elliott & Thompson Date of Publication: June 3rd 2021 (first published July 9th 2020) Rating: 5 stars ‘’There is nothing like nature to make you feel inadequate.’’ Nature. One of the most sacred words. Our mother, our home and shelter. And yet, how we abuse…
Treasury of Folklore: Seas and Rivers
Title: Treasury of Folklore: Seas & Rivers Writer: Dee Dee Chainey & Willow Winsham Publishing House: Pavillion Books Date of Publication: March 2nd 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’As people stare off into the curved horizon, disappearing as a watery pathway to the unknown, they dream of far-off shores and distant lands.’’ Water is life. The…
Secret Britain
Title: Secret Britain Writer: Mary-Ann Ochota Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Date of Publication: September 29th 2020 Rated: 5 stars ‘’Every step you take in Britain treads on the past. A street now filled with shops and houses might once have been a royal palace. An anonymous farmer’s field glimpsed from a car window might have…
Thames Mudlarking
Title: Thames Mudlarking Writer: Jason Sandy, Nick Stevens Publishing House: Osprey Publishing Date of Publication: April 20th 2021 Rating: 5 stars ‘’Without the River Thames, London would not exist.’’ Mudlarking and London’s past and present. There is an unbreakable bond between the great metropolis and the mudlarkers who bring the treasures of bygone eras to…
Ernest Shackleton (Little People, Big Dreams)
Title: Ernest Shackleton (Little People, Big Dreams) Writer: Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara (illustrated by Olivia Holden) Publishing House: Frances Lincoln Children’s Books Date of Publication: September 1st 2020 Rating: 5 stars ‘’To be brave cheerily, to be patient with a glad heart, to stand the agonies of thirst with laughter and song, to walk beside…
Ghost Stories of Louisiana
Title: Ghost Stories of Louisiana Writer: Dan Asfar Publishing House: Lone Pine Publishing Date of Publication: September 1st 2007 Rating: 5 stars ”And yet there are other nights – nights when the wind carries something unsettling through the Vieux Carre’s cramped streets. Nights when the black water of the Mississippi whispers something of the past as it crawls bu the…
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