Myths and Folktales From Around the World

Devils in a French convent. Poltergeists in an Egyptian hotel. Vampire demons in the Far East. Banshees on the Emerald Isle. The world is an old, dark house of superstition haunted by the monsters of a hundred nations.Myths and Folktales from Around the World puts those fabulous beings and figments of fancy at your fingertips with a rich and varied sampler of tales told around the world to give shape to the unknown and form to fears. Its coverage is global, and its subjects timeless. Accounts of corpse candles, supernatural hounds, gypsy cures, voodoo curses, evil eyes, corpse-specters, were-vixens, and witch killers are given with an eyewitness authenticity that will raise a shiver in the most skeptical reader. These fanciful folktales are your passport to foreign lands filled with mystery and supernatural thrills.