Contains over 200 entries covering broad definitions and concepts, case studies from five continents, themes and issues, objects in the sky as the focus of myth, basic concepts, and influential people...

Collection of essays and shorter entries on the collection of tales known as the Arabian Nights "The first section...

Online encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, legends, and related subjects...

Descriptions of 366 heroes from world folklore, along with illustrations and a timeline...

Contains more than 200 entries on the practices of folk medicine in Great Britain and North America from the 17th century to the present...

Contains entries on the authors, characters, themes, works, and movements associated with folklore and literature from around the world...

Contains entries on the names and results of medicine ceremonies, renowned shamans famous for their powers, techniques used by shamans to acquire and control the power of sacred ceremonies, technical terms used by anthropologists, biographies of anthropologists who research these ceremonies, cross-cultural symbolic motifs, plants and sacred paraphernalia associated with ceremonies, and recurring themes that structure these ceremonies...

"Entries examine topical essays, recent phenomena, concepts, cults, prominent individuals and personalities, organizations and publications, as well as providing entries tracing the development of occultism and parapsychology in particular countries...

Contains more than 120 articles on "religious beliefs expressed through ritualized behavior and festivals...

Contains brief entries on major characters and themes in Russian folklore and mythology from the 9th century to the early 20th century...

Contains "alphabetical entries on every aspect of the subject, including descriptions of hundreds of individual legends and their variations, legend themes, and scholarly approaches to the genre...

This encyclopedia is primarily a collection of entries concerning supposed historical encounters with life beyond that on Earth...

Contains hundreds of entries on human encounters with otherworldly beings, personalities, and events...

Contains 670 entries which cover folk and fairy tales around the world and from ancient times to the present...

Contains 145 entries covering major Western figures, events, and places as they have been portrayed in folk legends, art, literature, and popular culture...

Contains entries on the properties and uses of food by both mortals and immortals as represented in the world's myths and legends...

Contains more than 1700 "essays on the world's major mythological traditions (Greek, Native American, Indian, Japanese, Sumerian, Egyptian), along with retellings of better-known myths, and entries on mythological types, motifs, and figures (such as the Descent to the Underworld, the Hero, Creation, Odysseus, Spider Woman, and Inanna), and related subjects (such as fairly tales and legends)...

Contains nearly 300 entries on Satan depicted throughout traditional theology, mythology, art and literature, and popular culture...

Contains nearly 200 entries on shamanic belief systems, practices, rituals, and related phenomena...

Contains entries on the UFO phenomenon, as reflected in religious beliefs and legends, movies and TV shows, from advertising and celebrities to Internet sites and photo ops...