April's Batch of Folklore Books
Here it is, a hotly anticipated list of books coming out this month. It's a mad mad mad folklore world.
- Weird Virginia - Loren Coleman, Jeffrey Bahr, et al. Funny series of regional humor, this time in my adopted homestate.
- Book of South Wales, a Book of North Wales - S. Baring-Gould. Very expensive reprint of a turn-of-the-century collection. Free Baring-Gould books can be found at Project Gutenberg.
- Cantemos Al Alba: Origins of Songs, Sounds, and Liturgical Drama of Hispanic New Mexico - Tomas Lozano.
- Essential Charles Eastman (Ohiyesa): Light on the Indian World - Charles Eastman, edited by Micahel Oren Fitzgerald.
- Golem and the Wondrous Deeds of the Maharal of Prague- Yudi Rosenberg.
- Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles: Or, the Tale of Galehaut RetoldPatricia Terry
- Mystical and Mythological Explanatory Works of Assyrian and Babylonian Scholars - Alasdair Livingstone
- Sacred Angkor: Carved Reliefs of Angkor Wat - Vitorrio Roveda. Photographs by Jaroslav Poncar
- Spiritual Legacy of the American Indian - Joseph Epes Brown.
- Teller Tales - Jo Carson.
- Urban Legends: A Collection of International Tall Tales and Terrors - Gillian Bennett
- Walking with the Green Man - Bob Curran.
- When Dreams Came True - Jack Zipes. Second edition. Any new Jack Zipes book is a reason to celebrate.
- The High Book of the Grail: A Translation of the 13th Century Romance of Perlesvaus - Translated by Nigel Bryant
- Legend and Lore of the Guadalupe Mountains - W. C. Jameson.
- Signs, Cures and Witchery: German Appalachian Folklore - Gerald Milnes. This is my most anticipated title, having an interest in both German and Appalachian folkways.
- Kokopelli: Trickster, Trader and Troubadour of the Ancient Southwest - Dennis Slifer.
- Black Cats and April Fools: Origins of Old Wives Tales and Superstitions in Our Daily Lives Harry Oliver
- Canadian Folk-Life and Folk-Lore - William Parker Greenough. I love when the word folklore is hyphenated.
- Flowers and Fables: A Welsh Herbal Jocelyne Lawton.
- Tashi and The baba Yaga - Anna Fienberg. Children's book that looks fun.
- Unicorns acs, Figures & Fun - Nigel Suckling. Unicorns are huge now. Especially in the five and under set. I just went to a unicorn party, where, my daughter asserts, a real-live magical unicorn showed up.
- Washaka: The Bear Dreamer - Jamie Lee
- Woodcraft and Indian Lore - Ernest Thompson Seton