Folklore History

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    • Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore
    • By: Michael Dylan Foster
    • Narrated by: Tim Campbell
    • Length: 8 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 25-12-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Drawing on years of research in Japan, Michael Dylan Foster unpacks the history and cultural context of yokai, tracing their roots, interpreting their meanings, and introducing people who have hunted them through the ages....

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    • Constellation Mythology of the Greeks
    • By: David Weston Marshall
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 4 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 07-08-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The stars and constellations are among the few remaining objects that appear to us just as they appeared to our distant ancestors. This nonfiction narrative presents the tales of the 48 classical constellations, compiled from literature spanning a thousand years....

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    • The Hidden Queer History of Myths and Monsters
    • By: Sacha Coward
    • Narrated by: Will Watt
    • Length: 11 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 29-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Join any Pride march and you are likely to see a glorious display of papier-mâché unicorn heads trailing sequins, drag queens wearing mermaid tails and more fairy wings than you can shake a trident at. But these are not just accessories: they are queer symbols with historic roots.

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    • By: Mary Midgley
    • Narrated by: Hillary Huber
    • Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 23-10-2017
    • Language: English
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    • Myths, as Mary Midgley argues in this powerful audiobook, are everywhere. In political thought they sit at the heart of theories of human nature and the social contract....

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    • Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World
    • By: Adrienne Mayor
    • Narrated by: Fran Tunno
    • Length: 16 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 21-09-2014
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Driven by a detective's curiosity, Mayor unearths long-buried evidence and sifts fact from fiction to show how flesh-and-blood women of the Eurasian steppes were mythologized as Amazons, the equals of men....

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    • An Anthropologist on the Trail of a Hidden Hominoid
    • By: Gregory Forth
    • Narrated by: Mike Cooper
    • Length: 8 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 23-08-2022
    • Language: English
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    • While doing fieldwork on the remote Indonesian island of Flores, anthropologist Gregory Forth came across people talking about half-apelike, half-humanlike creatures that once lived in a cave on the slopes of a nearby volcano....

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    • A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt
    • By: Geraldine Pinch
    • Narrated by: TJ Johnson
    • Length: 7 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From stories of resurrected mummies and thousand-year-old curses to powerful pharaohs and the coveted treasures of the Great Pyramids, ancient Egypt has had an unfaltering grip on the modern imagination....

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    • By: Hannah Kent
    • Narrated by: Caroline Lennon
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 13-10-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 704 ratings
    • Inspired by a true story. In 1825, in a remote Irish valley lying between the mountains and Flesk River of Killarney, three women are brought together by strange and troubling events....

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    • The Women of the Viking World
    • By: Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir
    • Narrated by: Ann Richardson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-06-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Valkyries: the female supernatural beings that choose who dies and who lives on the battlefield. They protect some, but guide spears, arrows, and sword blades into the bodies of others. Viking myths about valkyries attempt to elevate the banality of war....

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    • The Gods, Goddesses, and Heroes Handbook: From Aphrodite to Zeus, a Profile of Who's Who in Greek Mythology
    • By: Liv Albert
    • Narrated by: Liv Albert
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Finally sort out who’s who in Greek mythology - from gods, goddesses, heroes, monsters, and everyone in between....

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    • Adventures in the Machinery of the Popular Imagination
    • By: Philip Ball
    • Narrated by: Gabriel Vaughan
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 19-07-2022
    • Language: English
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    • In The Modern Myths, Ball takes us on a wide-ranging tour of our collective imagination, asking what some of its most popular stories reveal about the nature of being human in the modern age....

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    • Goddesses in Greek Myth
    • By: Natalie Haynes
    • Narrated by: Natalie Haynes
    • Length: 9 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 28-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Natalie Haynes, author of the bestselling Pandora’s Jar, returns to the world of Greek myth and this time she examines the role of the goddesses....

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    • 12 Traditional Stories from Indigenous Tribes Across North America
    • By: Tom Pecore Weso
    • Narrated by: Shaun Taylor-Corbett
    • Length: 1 hr
    • Release date: 10-09-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Native Americans have a long tradition of storytelling. Now, you can easily introduce your children to these rich cultures with a compilation of powerful tales from multiple tribes like the Cheyenne and the Lenape.

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    • Captivating Dreamtime Stories of Indigenous Australians
    • By: Matt Clayton
    • Narrated by: Mike Reaves
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Stories of how the world came to be the way it is, stories of heroism and perfidy, stories about animals and birds, and stories about love and hate all have parts to play in the wide array of myths, legends, and tales created by Indigenous Australians....

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    • By: Jasmine Elmer
    • Narrated by: Jasmine Elmer, Nerissa Bradley
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 17-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • Goddess with a Thousand Faces blends historical research with mythological retelling, taking an inspirational, enlightening and fiercely feminist deep dive into ancient goddesses to explore the modern concept of femininity....

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