This book is a look at the rich, cultural heritage of Europe as it flourishes today. It covers ritual disguises, European ritual costume, ritual animal disguises, giants &dragons and dancing. A treasury of European custom and rituals!

The essential handbook for anyone interested in our ancient network of green lanes. Valerie shows you how to recognise them on the ground and discover them on antique maps. She also discusses their ecological value and the current disputes over rights of way.

Revised (2006) edition of Janet & Colin Bord's 1995 classic. Fully illustrated, with around 130 photos & illustrations. Explore the rich tapestry of folklore, myth & legend woven around Britain's landscape: hills, rivers, caves, springs, lakes, stones... Includes gazeteer of more than 50 sites to visit.

This book explores aspects of East Anglian local identity; the altering landscape and its dwindling wildlife; patterns on the landscape, real & imagined; the lore of roads & transport; and the characteristic food & drink of East Anglia, with rare recipes for local delicacies to be cooked at the right season and enjoyed anew.

From the earliest humans to the present day, there has always been a compulsion to 'leave one's mark': early cave art includes thousands of hand outlines, while many churches in Britain have foot outlines inscribed in lead and stone. These two extremes span almost 30,000 years during which time all kinds of persons, real and legendary, have left visible traces of themselves. Most of the footprints - and hand-prints, knee-prints, and impressions of other body parts - are clearly not real, having allegedly been impressed into rocks around the world by such high-profile figures as the Buddha, Vishnu, Jesus Christ, and the Virgin Mary, as well as a vast panoply of saints, whose footprint traces and associated stories occupy two chapters. The Devil has a whole chapter to himself - but giants, villains and heroes, such as King Arthur, also feature strongly alongside Witches, fairies, ghosts and assorted spirits. Modern mysterious footprints have been left by monsters such as Bigfoot, or aliens who have briefly stepped out of their spacecraft. Hundreds of imprints are described in this book, which concludes with location details for more than 100 imprint sites all around the world.

The early churchmen saw stained glass as an instrument of God's work on earth, transmuting white light into mystical colours in the same way that the work of God had taken base human nature and turned it into the divine. Medieval craftsmen working in the great cathedrals discovered and perfected techniques of blowing, fusing and painting glass that still amaze us today with the beauty and splendour of the finished work. This book is a simple celebration of the glory of stained glass.

Nigel Pennick has drawn on many sources, from ancient legends to parish maps, old chronicles and surveys. He has gathered together the rare fragments of literary, pictorial and folklore remains detailing information on the remains of lands around the British coasts which have been destroyed by the sea.

A reissue of John Michell's classic work on standing stones, and the extraordinary ideas which surround them, packed with great pictures and originally published by Thames & Hudson. This new edition from the Squeeze Press has all the makings of a bestseller, at a time when interest in ancient mysteries has never been greater, and major questions about our ancient history remain unanswered.

A Misericord (from the Latin words for `pity' and `heart'), is a carved wooden rest designed to give some comfort to the monks during the very long hours of service at many abbeys and cathedrals in Europe. It formed the underneath of the choir seat and, though only seen when tipped up, was often decorated with rich and artistic carvings.

A new introductory guide to traditional design principles. Including the regular and semi-regular tilings of the primary polygons, descriptions of the Golden Section and many other meaningful pattern designs.

Acclaimed psychic explorer Martin Goodman travels the holy mountains of the world, his journey is a compelling account of outstanding landscapes and raw mountain energy. Tune your life to higher powers - open this book and hear the mountains speak.

Trubshaw examines why certain types of prehistoric places are seen as sacred. Includes excellent overviews of the Earth Mysteries movement, and the recent dramatic changes in academic archaeology. Essential reading.

An air of mystery has always surrounded the crudely carved stone heads found at prehistoric sites, on churches and on farmhouses all over the British Isles. Long known as 'Celtic heads', John Billingsley explains why this is a mistaken term as he puts them in a context extending from some of the earliest prehistoric remains to the folk traditions of nineteenth-century and even modern Britain.