Cistercian Legends of the 13th Century: Now Available!

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The Cistercian order is one of great importance within the history of Catholicism. Their focus on hard work tended to uplift adjacent communities more than similarly constructed groups. The Cistercians, it seems, also had a very early hearty sense of humor (by the standards of the 13th century!) for some of their legends and tales involve tricking Satan, upstanding bishops and priests, and generally demonstrate their ascetic piety and charity.

This book relates a large number of tales, ranging from the humorous to the serious, and from the believable to the outright bizarre.

174 pages.

Symbolic Mythology: Now Available!

 

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The author of this present work is notable for stream of consciousness style digests containing highly compressed information on spiritual subjects. This particular book is perhaps most useful for those interested in details about the symbolism of animals as applied to Judaism, early Christianity, and also, of course, Norse and Greek/Roman pagan systems. It contains as well a section on the use of rings as a symbol which seems to have spawned a full length title by the same author.

156 pages.

A Book of Giants: Now Available!

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Mythology and legend is a great component of the occult and the study of the same arguably one of the more enjoyable. What could be better than tales of Norse giants? Tales of Norse giants alongside tales of giants in Homers' works and in the middle ages, twain with a short but sweet section at the end of this work on "real" giants (some lore of which is perfectly accurate!)

Technically speaking this work is fiction, but the recounting it does spills over into the specifically occult in its then-modern musings about the subject matter, and primarily comes from works either explicitly or implicitly religious in nature and overtone.

252 pages.

Ancient Cures, Charms, and Usages of Ireland: Now Available!

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This particular book is an interesting combination of work that delves into folklore, civics, and what might be considered, beyond the strictly folkloric, spook stories, some of which are fairly fantastical in nature. Crafted at the end of the 19th century, it encourages the invasion of Ireland by the United States to liberate the island from British tyranny, and at great length condemns the English almost in entirety.

For occult purposes the lore of interest here is threefold; first, a treatment of simple remedies, often herbal or in the form of Christianized incantations. Second, fairy lore, significant in bulk. Third, folk stories involving both the dead and witches in a great deal of sometimes quite morbid detail. I must admit several of the stories about dead brides were bizarre even by my standards. It caps itself off with a nice little series of proverbs, which are sometimes religious.

186 pages.

Folklore, Cryptozoology, and Mythology Books for Sale

The following is a continuously edited list of books about folklore, cryptids, and mythology which I have edited and released. All links are to Amazon, where I have self published my works.

THE BOOK OF WEREWOLVES
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A fine work by Baring-Gould on lycanthropes, cannibalism, and berserkers. 

LORE OF THE UNICORN
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Shepard's great work on the history, symbolism, and legend of the unicorn.

THE MAGIC OF THE HORSE SHOE
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An interesting folkloric look at the use of horse shoes, salt, and animals in superstition.

DRAGONS AND DRAGON LORE
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An extremely good look at Chinese, Hindu, and European dragon lore.

THE BOOK OF HALLOWEEN
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A good compilation of history and folklore related to Halloween and its prior counterparts.

MAGIC OF THE MIDDLE AGES
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A good look at the witch trials, cryptids, and ritual magick by Rydberg.

MESMERISM, SPIRITUALISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND MIRACLES
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A nice work by Putnam on spirits, Salem, mesmerism, and other related paranormal topics from a dedicated spiritualist perspective.

ANIMISM THE SEED OF RELIGION
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An interesting booklet categorizing the evolution of folklore and spiritual systems.

GHOSTLY PHENOMENA
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A collection of ghostly reports by the author and others, with some opinions about psychic and spiritual phenomena like mediums and automatic writing.

WERWOLVES
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A lengthy work containing dozens of folk tales on the topic of lycanthropes.

FLOWER LORE
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An excellent work showing the use of flowers in folklore and religious myth.

SCOTTISH FOLKLORE
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A collection of stories from the authors' childhood in Scotland, some with a religious or cryptozoological bent.

THE DWARFS OF MOUNT ATLAS
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A short work dealing with reports of pygmies with magical properties in mountains central Morocco.

ANCIENT CURES, CHARMS, AND USAGES OF IRELAND
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A rabidly pro-Irish nationalist text that contains spooky stories, proverbs, herbal remedies, and more.

SUPERSTITIONS ABOUT ANIMALS
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A mixture of stories, poetry, and more, regarding animals often in supernaturalmanners, as well as some cryptids.

CELTIC RELIGION
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A short work on the basics of the Celtic religion including the Druids.

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY
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A somewhat linguistic work on Celtic spiritual systems.

APPARITIONS GHOSTS HOBGOBLINS AND HAUNTED HOUSES
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An obtusely titled but excellent series of short tales involving various paranormal misidentifications and hoaxes.

SIGNS, OMENS, AND SUPERSTITIONS
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A compilation of divination, simple folklore, good and bad luck charms, and much more.

MAGIC AND MYSTERY
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A skeptics' look at homeopathy, fairies, and various superstitions.

THE VEIL OF ISIS
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A lengthy expose on the Druids, Isis worship, Phallism and folklore from ancient and then-modern times.

THE FAIRY MYTHOLOGY OF SHAKESPEARE
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A short work detailing the history of fairy lore as applied to Shakespeares' works.

THE POWER OF GEMS AND CHARMS
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A laundry list of charms, talismans, and good luck symbols, and their usages.

A BOOK OF GIANTS
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A work on giants in mythology from the Norse, Homer, the middle ages, and more.

THE SUPERNATURAL IN ROMANTIC FICTION
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A very dense compilation of folklore, including Arthurian and ancient as well as then-modern.

POEMS OF PAGANISM
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A compilation of poetry with a pagan twist. Mostly romantic and quasi-folkloric.

BIRDS IN LEGEND AND FOLKLORE
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A long work compiling centuries of avian folklore from a hundred or more cultures.

POPULAR HOME REMEDIES AND SUPERSTITIONS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS
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A dense collection of superstition, some derived from Hohmans' "Pow Wows" and the "Egyptian Secrets" of Albertus Magnus.

FOLKLORE, SUPERSTITION, AND CHARMS
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A compilation of material from dozens of sources covering folk rites, hexes, talismans, folklore about luck and prognostication, and more.

SYMBOLIC MYTHOLOGY
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A work on symbol usage in religion and spiritual systems, including lore about animals, pillars, rings, etc.

IN GHOSTLY JAPAN
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A collection of folk tales, mythology, and proverbs from pre-modern Japanese culture.

A WORLD OF WONDERS
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A compilation of folklore and myth ranging from alchemy to lycanthropy, from astrology to pseudoscience.

POPULAR SUPERSTITIONS OF THE HIGHLANDERS OF SCOTLAND
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A compilation of Scottish ghost stories, cryptozoology, and superstitions.

ENGLISH FOLKLORE
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A collection of folk tales and superstitions, plus ghost stories and more, from peasant England.

FAIRIES
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A slightly romanticist compilation of poetry and prose involving fairies, but also elves and other such beings.

BEGINNINGS: OR GLIMPSES OF VANISHED CIVILIZATIONS
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A collection of lore from Greece, Rome, Egypt, Vedic writings, and the work of Donnelly, heavily related to Atlantis and seeking to describe the origins of civilization.

CONTENTIONS WITH GOD
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A compilation of mostly humorous examples of people suing the Jewish god or complaining of contradictions in Torah and similar law.

AMERICAN INDIAN FREEMASONRY
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A short booklet relating some native myths and their spiritual overlap with Masonic concepts.

ENGLISH FAIRY TALES
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A work containing an anthropological dissertation on fairy folklore and etymology, plus some classic fairy tales.

FISHES OF FANCY
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A compilation of aquatic folklore, from fishes and crabs to dolphins and more.

JEWISH FOLKLORE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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A short work by Moses Gaster. One part short folk tales, one part analysis of the same.

CISTERCIAN LEGENDS OF THE 13TH CENTURY
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A fine collection of Cistercian folk tales ranging from the pedestrian to the supernatural.

CURIOSITIES OF OLDEN TIMES
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A large collection of interesting and strange folklore, by Sabine Baring-Gould.

HISTORIC GHOSTS AND GHOST HUNTERS
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A compilation of spirits and ghosts in folklore. Strange stories.