MARK NORMAN

Pulpos, calamares, sepias y sus parientes ("cefalópodos") son algunas de las muchas criaturas todavía desconocidas en la Tierra. Tienen comportamientos complejos y muchos son expertos en realizar espectaculares cambias de forma y color. Aparecen en este libro de todas las formas y tamaños desde las muy pequeños a los de proporciones gigantes ( 15 m. de largo), que aparecen no solo en arrecifes poco profundos sino tambien a grandes prafundidades (7.500 m. de profundidad). Esta guia incluye informacion e imagenes de especies de todo el mundo asi como historias de su anecdotica vida y de sus raros comportamientos.

As featured in The New York Times...Throughout the history of civilisation, traditional crafts have been passed down from hand to skilled hand. Blacksmithing, brewing, beekeeping, baking, milling, spinning, knitting and weaving: these skills held societies together, and so too shaped their folklore and mythology.Exploring the folklore connected with these rural crafts, Telling the Bees examines the customs, superstitions and stories woven into some of the worlds oldest trades. From the spinning of the Fates to the blacksmiths relationship with the devil, and the symbolism of John Barleycorn to a ritual to create bees from the corpse of a cow these are the traditions upon which our modern world was built.

How did our ancestors use the concept of demons to explain sleep paralysis? Is that carving in the porch of your local church really what you think it is? And whats that tapping noise on the roof of your car..? The fields of folklore have never been more popular a recent resurgence of interest in traditional beliefs and customs, coupled with morbid curiosities in folk horror, historic witchcraft cases and our superstitious past, have led to an intersection of ideas that is driving people to seek out more information.Tracey Norman (author of the acclaimed play WITCH) and Mark Norman (creator of The Folklore Podcast) lead you on an exploration of those more salubrious facets of our past, highlighting those aspects of our cultural beliefs and social history that are less wicker basket and more Wicker Man.

Witchcraft and witches throughout history have long captured the imagination, yet hidden away in archives are records of long forgotten cases. Many of these are tragic, some are unusual perhaps even inexplicable but all are fascinating in their own right.Devons Forgotten Witches 18601910 takes a deep dive through these records, bringing to the surface accusations of witchcraft in the county that have languished, unacknowledged, in the British Newspaper Archive for decades. These are the stories of ordinary people whose lives were touched in some way by witchcraft.Tracey Norman and Mark Norman examine these cases within their historical context, pulling together details from various news reports to explore what might really have happened. This work provides an intriguing snapshot of press coverage in the Victorian and Edwardian eras, showing how the public were urged to view those who still put their faith in incredible superstition. Most importantly, the retelling of these stories gives a new voice to those whom the historical record has silenced.