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I write English-language books about German folklore. I primarily read books about folklore & mythology, history, and tabletop role-playing games.
Mastodon profile: @juergen_hubert@mementomori.social
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Jürgen Hubert wants to read Die Ägypter
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Das Alte Ägypten: Reich der Pharaonen by R. Hamilton
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Faszination alter Kulturen: Ägypten by Ania Skliar
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Bildatlas der Weltkulturen: Ägypten by John Baines
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Folk Stories of the Yi Nationality by Yongxiang Zhang
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Ägypten by Jules B. Billard
Noch ein Buch vom Straßenrand...
Ich habe schon so viele Sagensammlungen gelesen, aber noch kaum Sekundärliteratur über die Sagenkunde.
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Andrea Palladio, 1508-1580 by Manfred Wundram
I don't really have the time to learn much about architecture.
Yet somehow, I can never resist taking books on architecture whenever I see one in a Little Free Library... 😅 #Bookstodon
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Das Okkulte by Sabine Doering-Manteuffel
Looking at its table of contents, it seems to focus on "secret practices" rather than folk belief, and thus it's likely to be less useful as research material for my planned book on magic-focused folk tales from German folklore. Still, it should be interesting nonetheless, and it even seems to cover Internet-based occultism (although given that it was published in 2008, it obviously doesn't cover the latest trends).
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Magie und Magier im Mittelalter by Christa Tuczay (Dtv, #34017)
This book about "Magic and Mages in the Middle Ages" contains the following chapters:
- The Heritage of Antiquity
- Christianity
- Magic and the Church
- The Legal Situation
- Oriental Influences and Tradition
- Heathen Europe
- Magic and Science
- Magical Practice
- Shamans and Witches in the Middle Ages
- Magic in Courtly Literature of the Middle Ages
My first impression is that this book is less about folkloric practice and more about the social context of #magic in the Middle Ages. But that, too, should be very useful to know for my planned book on magic-related folk tales from German #folklore .
Jürgen Hubert replied to lieven's status
@thisislieven@c.im To learn more about your own culture, learn about others.
At least, that's one of my goals here.
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Mayan folktales by James D. Sexton
The first entry for my "Comparative Folklore" project. I am looking forward to discovering both the similarities and the differences to German folk tales.
#folklore #Mayans #Bookstodon
tomes.tchncs.de/list/439/s/comparative-folklore-worldwide
Jürgen Hubert wants to read Magie im Mittelalter by Helmut Birkhan (Beck'sche reihe, #1901)
This book on "Magic in the Middle Ages" has the following chapters:
- Definition of "Magic"
- Patterns of thought underlying superstition and magic
- Magic of scholars in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Age
- Magic in folk belief
- Increase in magical practice in the Late Medieval Ages
All of these should be highly relevant and useful for my planned book on tales of #magic from German #folklore.
