More than 1500 concise and colourful entries that give details on festivals, rites of passage, plant and herblore and theories about folklore are included in this comprehensive dictionary.

Identifies themes, figures of popular tradition, tales, modern myths, folk arts, superstitions, and characters featured in the world's folk heritage.

Idenifies key individuals, events, places, organizations, movements, political parties, and battles

7,500 entries of 50 to 400 words each arranged alphabetically. Current through 1992.

This book includes the myths and legends of a wide variety of world cultures, including Japan, Egypt, Greece, North America, China and India.

Fairies have been revered and feared, sometimes simultaneously, throughout recorded history. This encyclopedia of concise entries, from the A-senee-ki-waku of northeastern North America to the Zips of Central America and Mexico, includes more than 2,500 individual beings and species of fairy and nature spirits from a wide range of mythologies and religions from all over the globe.