From gadgets that give superheroes incredible powers to the enduring controversy over the NASA moon landing, the MythBusters have a great time testing out urban legends, exposing fakery and trying TV and movie tricks themselves.

The "MythBusters," test various urban legends, folk stories, and popular beliefs in the laboratory, often with humorous results.

This book describes the history of bad clowns, why clowns go bad, and why many people fear them.

Through the lens of expressive culture, Performing Folklore tracks Portugal's transition from fascism to democracy, and from imperial metropole to EEC member state. Kimberly DaCosta Holton examines the evolution and significance of ranchos folclóricos, groups of amateur musicians and dancers who perform turn-of-the-century popular tradition and have acted as cultural barometers of change throughout 20th-century Portugal. She investigates the role...

This exquisite anthology welcomes you into an enchanted realm rich with  myth, mystery, romance, and abounding natural beauty. Gorgeous fine art and photographs, literature, essays, do-it-yourself projects, and recipes provide hours of reading, viewing, and dreaming pleasure along with a multitude of ideas for modern-day living and entertaining with a distrinctive fairy touch.

Ce livre met en lumière le cté sociologique de l'art. L'art est social à trois points de vue différents, par son origine, par son but, enfin par son essence même ou sa loi interne. L'art est social non pas seulement parce qu'il a son origine et son but dans la société réelle dont il subit l'action et sur laquelle il réagit, mais parce qu'il « porte en lui-même », parce qu'il « crée une société idéale », o la vie atteint son maximum...

Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonization and, more recently, through the increasing globalization of media products and outlets. Scaled for Success offers the first detailed overview of the mermaid's dispersal outside Europe. Complementing...

"….this book is stunning and packed full of mermaid mythology, history and fun fashion and recipes! You will want this fun and stunning book on your shelf." - Seeing Double in Neverland As the editor of Faerie magazine, Carolyn Turgeon is fluent in fairy tales and myths and suggests that even with the occasional kitsch, mermaids have become an empowering symbol for women. - The Globe and Mail A comprehensive, lavishly illustrated and intricately...

Medium Concetta Bertoldi answers all your questions about life after life . . . from the irreverent: (If the dead are always with us, do they have a XXX view of my bedroom?) . . . to the poignant: (Will my deceased father be with me when I walk down the aisle on my wedding day?) . . . to the heartfelt: (When loved ones leave this life too early or under tragic circumstances, are they eternally heartbroken or can they find peace in heaven?) Concetta...

Our enduring love of vampires - the bad boys (and girls) of paranormal fantasy - has persisted for centuries. Despite being bloodthirsty, heartless killers, vampire stories commonly carry erotic overtones that are missing from other paranormal or horror stories. Even when monstrous teeth are sinking into pale, helpless throats - especially then - vampires are sexy. But why? In A History Of The Vampire In Popular Culture, author Violet Fenn takes the...