A fabulously entertaining work with over 100 delightful illustrations--Library Journal calls Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins its "favorite work of 1996." In more than 2,000 alphabetically arranged entries, readers will meet angels, demons, elves, encantados, fairies, familiars, keremets, nats, nymphs, and many other strange beings from around the world. Carol Rose introduces the reader to the little--and not so little--folk, delightfully various and, at the same time, strikingly similar from country to country. Wherever humans have lived, the supernatural beings have dwelt alongside us. People serve to explain the unexplainable--the strange disappearance of a traveler in a dark wood, that odd thumping in the attic, the fresh cream turned sour overnight. Often they reveal the stoic humor with which human societies have faced their difficulties. But whatever their source, our guilts, fears, dreams, or imaginations, the spirits have fascinated and enchanted us through the millennia. Chosen by Library Journal as a Best Reference Source.

Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia

Politics & Social Sciences

Rose, Carol

Social Sciences

W.W.Norton&Company

"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! have nothing on Rose, at home in a thicket of menacing creatures."―Choice We have always conjured up creatures never seen in nature, from flying horses and two-headed birds to fire-breathing dragons and enormous killer skunks, as well as fantastic distortions of our own image, from giants to nubile maidens. In these pages you will meet extraordinary beings from Hindu and Navajo religions, Scandinavian tales, Russian folklore, Lithuanian stories, Irish oral history, American tall tales, and Aztec myth. Just some of the monstrous entourage: • Baku, a benevolent Japanese monster with the body of a horse, the head of a lion, and the legs of a tiger, who helps people by devouring their nightmares. • Kurma, the giant tortoise of Hindu myth, whose upper shell forms the heavens and lower part the earth. • Missipissy, the feared fish serpent of North America's Great Lakes region. This illustrated encyclopedia not only identifies and describes individual beasts in their cultural context but also groups them together across cultures and discusses common mythological strands and conceits. 60 b/w illustrations.

Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Unlike her first book of poetry, Behind the Blue Gate (l997), which used place to access reality, Carol Rose’s From the Dream invites us to draw upon memory, loss, death, friendship and love in an attempt to give shape to our lives. Dreams, like the spiritual realm, shift perspective, urging us to move between the worlds of waking and imaginal realities. In this strangely familiar terrain, perceptions are challenged. We sense the power of images, believing that if we can grab hold of them, wrest meaning from them, then (regardless of how bewildering they may seem) we can be blessed by them. “Carol Rose calls up her spiritual lineages, and dares the reader to go travelling with her, through dream, memory, spirit, and the landed body, toward the wisdom of self-understanding. Her poetic journey spirals back and forth through time, from the ancient path of priestess, to home and family, to her own Jewish heritage and identity.” — Katherine Bitney, author of The Boreal Dragon: Encounters with a Northern Land and Firewalk “In From the Dream, Carol Rose views her life from a mystical perspective. Here there are angels to interact with, the Shekhinah to guide her, and fate and meaning in everything that occurs. Drawing on ‘words/waiting to be exhumed,’ she creates poems that fulfill their ancient role as spells, prophecies, and ‘ancient utterances.’ ” — Howard Schwartz, author of The Library of Dreams: New and Selected Poems 1965-2013

From the Dream

Poetry

Albion-Andalus Books

A good girl takes a walk on the wild side.... Small town mayor's daughter, 26 year-old Emily Loughlin is tired of always pleasing everyone but herself. She packs her bags and heads for the big city of Dallas, determined to embrace life and run wild. She's surprised, though, when she finds romance with an infuriating, gorgeous hunk who 's determined to save her from herself. When his childhood best friend asks Jake Wolf to rescue Emily from herself, he doesn't hesitate. Jake's was a hell-raising bad boy, but he's grown up and now owns a successful motorcycle store. Trying to shepherd Emily through her rough patch, Jake comes face-to-face with his own adolescence and, in the process, he's tempted by the gorgeous, hazel-eyed Emily. He knows he's supposed to send her home where she belongs, but Jake can't help feeling like Emily really belongs right by his side.  How's a guy supposed to stay on the straight-and-narrow when a beautiful woman is determined to find herself and, in the process, is driving him crazy?

Wild Woman (Five Star Standard Print Romance)

United States

Five Star

Always [Mass Market Paperback] [Jan 01, 1998] Rose, Carol

Always

Gems Contemporaries

Anything You Can Do

Zebra Books

Drawing from ancient and modern folklore, myth, and religion, this reference work delves into the social and anthropological significance of supernatural beings such as angels, demons, dwarfs, encantados, fairies, keremets, nats and nymphs.

Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People

ABC-CLIO

A richly illustrated encyclopedia that describes individual beings in their cultural context, grouping them across cultures and explaining common mythological themes.
This illustrated encyclopedia not only identifies and describes individual beasts in their cultural context, but also groups them together across cultures and discusses common mythological strands and conceits. An extensive bibliography and useful appendixes assist further learning for students of all levels.
 • Provides an extensive bibliography
• Includes useful appendixes that encourage further learning for students at all levels
• Fully illustrated

Humor & Satire

Carol Rose's verse shimmers above the landscape of dream and desert, flesh and spirit, revelling in the sensual riches of the Israeli heartland, the body and the thinking heart. Rose exults in the visceral and the verbal, celebrating the resilience of women in Jerusalem and their sisters across faiths and generations. Both brave and brazen, Behind the Blue Gate is a literary manifesto unearthing the voices of those silenced by culture and history and inverting master stories honoured in scripture and myth with startling and liberating imagery - a challenge to both the stereotypical and the sacred. 
In an effort to reaffirm the bonds between religions, sexes, families and nations Rose redeems the ancient/modern Jerusalem, reconstituting a land, a legacy and a language. In five sections: Whenever I Return, The Crones, There's No Telling, Making Love in the Air and Behind the Blue Gate, Rose reveals herself a poet priestess, illuminating, genuflecting and gesturing to worlds real and imagined which envelope us in luminous strands of time and renewal.

Behind the Blue Gate

Dundurn

"pee-a boo into a tinheart" is a collection of poetry written by carol rose, a biopolar woman who has survived her affliction and attributes writing as one of the main reasons she has been able to do so. As well as the excellent care of her doctors and the loving and unfailing support of her husband. carol, who is very sensitive to the color blue, as it disturbs her, and who really has to want to make a point, in order for her to use capital letters, is a very brave soul who is at the same time, very reclusive, prone to extreme emotional swings, and one of the sweetest people you will ever meet in your life. extremely talented as a poet and artist and photographer, she however, writes how she is most comfortable. meaning she spells words the way they sound to her and she articulates her thoughts without care as to how gramatically correct they are. to correct them would be to her, something very hurtful that truly upsets her, and as her publisher and editor, i've had to dip into my reserves of patience time and time again as she is a very fragile spirit, tender and loving and caring and all things sweet. working with her has made me a better man, a better person, and a better human being. in a world filled seemingly more every day, with hate and violence and the unspeakable, we could all learn valuable lessons from someone who truly does wear her heart on her sleeve. i would not hesitate to work with carol again, and have already insured in some way shape or form i will be working with her and i am forever grateful for her allowing me to take a peek, into her tinheart, which isn't really tin at all, but would best be described, as a heart of pure gold. respectfully, chase von editor and publisher of this brave and immensely touching creation by author, artist and photographer and bipolar woman.

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Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Von Chase Publishing Company

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Spirits, Fairies, Leprechauns, and Goblins: An Encyclopedia

Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth

From the Dream

Wild Woman (Five Star Standard Print Romance)

Always

Anything You Can Do

Spirits, Fairies, Gnomes and Goblins: An Encyclopedia of the Little People

Giants, Monsters, and Dragons: An Encyclopedia of Folklore, Legend, and Myth

Behind the Blue Gate

peek a boo into a tinheart