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Reprint of the book on fairy tales and mythology by Thomas Keightly. ... Read more

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Read the amazing collection of 24 magical mythological stories of all nations. Fascinating and adventurous stories like Jason and the Golden Fleece, Prometheus Friend of Man, The Good King Arthur, The Great Knight Siegfried, Beowolf and the Fire Dragon, The Cyclops, Oedipus and the Sphinx, Lohengrin and Elsa the Beautiful, Count Roland, the Sack of Troy,and many more... Clearly written short classics that everyone should know. Read the ancient legends from nations and countries like Greece, Italy, Britain, Germany, Scandinavia and France in this comprehensive 1914 bestselling book that tells the wonderful mythological stories of all nations. Magical stories that everyone should know! ... Read more

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Reprint of the 1910 collection of illustrated British folk tales.I. Beowulf II. The Dream of Maxen Wledig III. The Story of Constantine and Elene IV. The Compassion of Constantine V. Havelok the Dane VI. Howard the Halt VII. Roland, the Hero of Early France VIII. The Countess Cathleen IX. Cuchulain, the Champion of Ireland X. The Tale of Gamelyn XI. William of Cloudeslee XII. Black Colin of Loch Awe XIII. The Marriage of Sir Gawayne XIV. King Horn XV. Robin Hood XVI. Hereward the Wake ... Read more

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Both a professional academic researcher and practising magician, Dr Dave Evans delves deeply into modern British history to present a serious, but accessible and fascinating work, based on his recent and unique PhD, on developments in British magic after Aleister Crowley died. Not just the result of extensive book-research, this project involved attending rituals and having meetings with some quite remarkable men and women, who are examined and given a voice in these pages, some of them for the first time. Topics covered include Aleister Crowley and Thelema, How many magicians there actually are in Britain, The claims of Amado Crowley to be Aleister's son, the work of Austin Osman Spare, Kenneth Grant and the Typhonian OTO, Blasphemy, Chaos Magick, Gerald Gardner, Ramsey Dukes, Alex Sanders, HP Lovecraft, Satanism, Cursing, The Left-Hand Path, creating the Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, plus the work of Ronald Hutton, Dennis Wheatley, Dion Fortune, HP Blavatsky and others, all meshed into a broader philosophical, cognitive-psychological and moral-history framework of the broader Twentieth Century.Also includes how Academia deals with studying 'the Weird', and how Academia deals with having Magicians in their ranks in the first place (aka 'Reflexivity'), plus a host of tangential issues including Satan in advertising, Drugs, the Millennium Bug and 'End-Times Fever', Andrew Chumbley, Sex Magick, Inversion and Carnival, Witchcraft, neoPaganism and Wicca, Harry Potter, Breaking Taboos, Sigmund Freud, the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament, the madness of Montague Summers, Black and White magic, Censorship, how Tolkien and CS Lewis made magical belief the majority view in Britain, Genesis P Orridge, Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, Thatcherite Politics and Magic, Oscar Wilde and homosexual moral panics, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Satanic Ritual Abuse, Bela Lugosi, messages decoded from a dead squid and the cabbalistic importance of a cat called Tibbles.Not just a book about the history of magic, this research places magicians and their work into the broader society that we all live in, and shows how that magic has always been a part of our culture. ... Read more

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A Disappointment
I was really disappointed when I got this book. I was looking forward to reading about Kenneth Grant, the Typhonian Current, and other developments after Crowley:
what I got was a very dry, boring read on topics like ethics and anthropology... and less than 40 pages on Magick after Crowley. I would not recommend this book to anyone who is looking for an informative read...it's a waste of money.

A good book, possibly the only one of its kind
Evans makes a valiant attempt at taking an academic and historical look at the modern history of the occult in england.About half of the book is centered around an examination of morality and magick. Evans debunks the idea that magicians (even followers of the so-called "left hand path") are in some way evil or malicious.The rest of the book is divided into a review of the lives of Amado Crowley and Kenneth Grant (along with some debunking of the stories these men have created around themselves) and a brief look at chaos magick.I really enjoyed this book, but it does have its weaknesses.For example, I was disappointed at times with Evans citation of wikipedia as a source of information, and his tendency to cite other unacademic sources as fact when they supported his conclusions.I recommend the book especially for people with a passing interest in the beliefs and (to a lesser extent)the practices of the modern occultist. ... Read more

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Chinese myths were primarily a diffuse and fragmentary oral tradition, eventually preserved in writing only in a piecemeal fashion. Many classical texts are unavailable in translation, and the stories have been unknown to Western readers. Anne Birrell here introduces the general reader to a selection of narratives organized by themes and motifs that help set Chinese myths in the context of world mythology. The contents include:o Origin and creation mythso Myths of the floodo The divine cosmoso Gender in mytho Metamorphoseso Mythic heroes and heroineso Fabled plants and animalso Major sources of myth ... Read more

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This is NOT an introduction to Chinese mythological literature
Which I was expecting. If you are looking for something along the lines of the "poetic edda", "the tain" or "metamorphosis" then look elsewhere.

This effort, at best, is a textbook presentation of chinese mythology lumped by subject matter.At worst,imagine someone taking a heavily annotated version of Ovid's "metamorpohsis", rearranging the text by topic, excising all extraneous text other than what specifically represents the topic, and then printing the annotations with this remainder tagged at the end of chapter. This is essentiall what you get. For each "subject" listed in the editioral review Anne Birrel gives us 2 to 5 pages of her analysis and interpretation of the text sources as well as comparisions to other mythological systems and then we get 2-4 paragraphs of the original text.

It is commented in the introduction that Chinese mythology is hampered by the source material being fragementary, but this presentation's limited text of the source material is so sterile, so minimal that one has to wonder why any attempt to include the original material was made.

If you are looking for an introduction and comparative analysis of Chinese Mythology as it relates to other better known western mythologies then this is an interesting book. If you are looking for an introduction to the literature that preserves Chinese mythology, fragmentary though it may be --- there has to be a better selection somewhere.

Good Transaction
This was a good transaction.Delivery was slow, but not terrible.Thanks a lot! ... Read more