Leonard R. N. Ashley Livres

Do you want to cast a spell on a suitor, banish a ghost, cure a toothache, or harvest protective herbs? If so, this is the book for you. The Complete Book of Spells, Curses, and Magical Recipes explains how men and women throughout history have invoked the supernatural for specific uses and provides information about the history of witchcraft, magical recipes, and occult practices from ancient to modern times. Here is a comprehensive and enlightening guide to the rites, rituals, and magic of cultures throughout time.

The definitive guide that tells readers all they want to know about werewolves - facts, fiction, folklore and popular culture from around the world.

Provides a description and historical background of place and people names in Mexico.

The Last Days: The Messiah, The Apocalypse, The Rapture, The Last Judgment This concise but large book (over 500 pages) on a large topic starts with the Judeo-Christian tradition with chapters on the Jewish religion and prophecy and Christian eschatology, then broadens out to detail the Last Days beliefs of other religions worldwide. Then come fact-filled chapters on End Times in art and science and literature and the media. The final chapter offers comment on hundreds of apocalyptic and disaster films, revealing the modern mindset. Belief in The End, from early prophets to current believers in the Rapture, has always dominated theology, philosophy and daily life. Here is here reference to hundreds of sources plus penetrating and personal opinion, the wisdom and speculation from the world's cultures through the ages on where humanity comes from and what its final fate may be. The subject is complex but the book's style is not dryly professorial but clever, concrete and accessible to any reader, and the cast of characters in this long drama runs from saints and sinners to kooks and catastrophists. On a subject so popular now, information needs to be handled with precision but made readable for all, whatever their views on contentious creeds and people's faiths or imaginations. The study is respectful of all beliefs but ventures to make decisions. And to call on the reader to make decisions also.

More than two decades in preparation, Nordic Folklore and Traditions is an extremely erudite and unique international contribution to linguistics (with all its philology from many languages) and to the science of folklore and to popular culture of the northern countries, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland and The Faroes, etc, with ancient and modern "deep roots of custom and belief". Here is the history of and examples of the work of Asbjørnsen & Moe and their followers right up to date. Here are the literary tales and fairytales and folklore all newly translated from original languages by the authors, the characters connected with the farm and the sea, the trolls and other fantastic creatures, magic and sorcery and witchcraft and charms, the whole story of runes (with the Kensington Stone, etc), the sagas and other poetry (with translations), the story and mythology of the Northland. There are a great many well chosen and extraordinary illustrations, literary quotations in both original language and English, and detailed Nordic Glossary and Names as well as other features.

Sigmund Freud said that dreams are a window into the subconscious. This book is not only a valuable guide to the interpretation of dreams, but also goes much further than typical dream books to include a vast array of literature, folklore and film references about dreams, proving that while dreams may be a window on the soul, they are also a lens through which we can understand society and culture as well. This marvelously researched illustrated volume contains sections covering: a sampler of dreams and dreaming; dreams and science: religion, magic and dreams: dreams in art, literature and folklore: dreams and cinema: a treasury of short stories about dreams: and a section on the interpretation of dreams. As always Dr. Ashley s unique prose style will appeal to both scholarly and popular audiences alike."