World Myths

Die Welt der Menschen ist aus den Fugen geraten. Eine mysteriöse Organisation hat es auf die uralten Kräfte der Windpferde abgesehen – mächtige Wesen, die das Gleichgewicht der Natur bewahren. Als Silberfeder, eines der letzten Windpferde, auf Sophie trifft, ein Mädchen mit einer seltenen Gabe, beginnt ein Abenteuer voller Gefahren, Geheimnisse und Mut. Gemeinsam mit ihren Freunden Max und Erika aus dem Märchenwald macht sich Sophie auf den Weg, um die Pläne der Organisation zu durchkreuzen.

This is a story from the Tales from the Greek Legends collection.

What if a single story could bring a forgotten world back to life? When Lily discovers a hidden door in her grandmother’s attic, she never expects it to lead to an enchanted realm—a world where mythical creatures still exist, waiting to be remembered. A centaur, a fairy, and a dragonet reveal a painful truth: magic is fading, disappearing as belief in their world vanishes. Determined to save what remains, Lily captures their stories in her journal, hoping to restore the connection between their world and hers.

Teacher Patrick Healy traveled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around half a thousand myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable. This is the fourth volume of his work, 30 Grimm's fairy tales, in his words. He retold the stories with his own opinions and approaches to them.

Eight fantastic stories, brilliantly retold, reaching from Africa to the United Kingdom. Hours of audio fun to keep children entertained while on the move! Introduce your children to a selection of folk tales from around the world, written especially for children. Filled with sound effects and fun, these stories will introduce your children to a wider world of classic stories....

Jae Hwa Lee spent her 16th year in Seoul, trying to destroy the evil immortals who had been torturing her family for centuries. The last thing she expected was to be forced to become their assassin. Trapped in the darkest part of the Spirit World as a servant to the Korean god Kud, fighting to keep her humanity, and unable to contact her loved ones, Jae Hwa is slowly losing hope.

Discover what Prince Dredge's life is like before he meets the cursed Princess Eleanor as he meets several characters who take him under his care, as well as those who wish to oppose him in his life.

Discover the tale of the Rat Prince as he was once known as Prince William the I. He was once a wealthy prince who was transformed into a rat after making a mistake with a sorceress and this story tells his journey of how he came to be the Rat Prince.

Contos de guerreiros japoneses revelará aos seus ouvintes os mais preciosos valores japoneses: disciplina, lealdade, dedicação, perseverança, auto sacrifício, humildade e devoção. Tal arcabouço ético e narrativas envolventes recebem a ilustração de Shusui Okakura e outros artistas, fazendo ecoar da forma mais bela o passado e a memória japonesa.

Focusing on contemporary practices, The Culinary Imagination traces the social, aesthetic, and political history of food from myth to modernity, from ancient sources to our current wave of food mania. What does it mean to transform raw stuff into cooked dishes, which then become part of our own bodies; to savor festive meals yet resolve to renounce gluttony; to act as predators where in another life we might have become prey?

What started the war between the sexes? When two artists, Becca Tzigany and James Bertrand, began a worldwide investigation into the forbidden history of humanity, they could not have predicted the clues they would uncover across cultures to what holds us back from deep intimacy and spiritual sex. Venus and Her Lover is their long-awaited opus. Accompany Becca and James behind veils, deep into shadow realms, and through the pleasures of liberation beyond our dominator society.

Patrick Healy, a teacher, traveled around the world, talked with people in different places, and collected around 500 myths, legends, and folktales and their several alternative versions. His opinion and comments (directly or indirectly) are inevitable. This is the sixth volume of his work, 61 Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Books 1 and 2, in his words. He retold the stories with his opinion and approach to them. Patrick is an Australian writer who has an abiding interest in the folklore of different cultures. He has lived and worked in Hong Kong for over 25 years as a high school teacher.

Anthropologist Susan Johnston turns a scholarly eye on one of humankind's primary interests throughout history: the spiritual belief system. Beginning her lectures with an attempt to define religion, Professor Johnston continues this intriguing study with an examination of mythology and symbols, rituals and witchcraft, gender, politics, and religion's place in the many customs surrounding death.

In this book, the third in the series, you will find a selection of 16 legends, each of which relates to a particular place in Central Wales. Black Bart the Pirate, Owain Glyndwr, the Red Dragon of Wales, the Five Saints, and the Red Bandits of Mawddwy are just a few of the characters you will meet in this audiobook.

Terra and his mate Fienna have begun to raise their firstborn child, as a dark force from beyond the Barrier Mountains threatens all life on their world. Terra must first return to his long-forgotten past life to determine if the humans can or will help in the struggle to come. He then needs to find and convince the remaining land nymphs and elves to join in the dangerous fight. Can one man, even a man as powerful as Terra, unite all on Tone to save their world?

La mitología clásica es una herencia de gran belleza que ha conseguido sobrevivir durante cientos y miles de años para enriquecernos, no solo con su fuerza literaria, sino también con su enorme potencial para transmitir conocimiento y valores. Los personajes y sus mitos están ahí, con su real y aparente sencillez para sembrar en nosotros las semillas de su magia. ¿Hasta dónde nos llevará esa magia? Solo depende de nosotros.

Is the five-second rule for real? Will eating carrots improve your eyesight? Is your cookware a health hazard? Do spicy foods cool you down? Has your grandmother been lying to you all these years? No, no, no, no, and...probably. In this entertaining and informative reference guide, award-winning cookbook authors Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough take on more than 100 popular kitchen myths and dish up answers to all your burning questions about food science and lore.

3,000 years ago, a war began between the immortals and the mortals. It's a war that continues to this day.... Before history began, a legendary queen battled a foreign army, braved the death of her husband, and faced betrayal at the hand of someone she trusted. This is the story of Eire, Queen of the Faeries, the Immortal One, and the leader of the Tuatha de Danann. This is the story of the war that drove the Immortal Ones into exile.

La misteriosa y fascinante cultura de Egipto tiene en sus mitos un canal de expresión que nos lleva a un mundo mágico indescriptible. Este mundo nos permite introducirnos en los misterios del origen del universo, los misterios de la vida y de la muerte y de las fuerzas que habitan en nuestro propio inconsciente. Si buscas viajar a una realidad paralela, si quieres verte envuelto en la magia y entrar en contacto con la infinita belleza de la cultura egipcia... Este es el libro que buscabas.

Six Gaelic tales of wonder and adventure, read in an authentic brogue by actor Des Keogh, transport wee listeners to a magic world of leprechauns and giants.