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Published in 1994 with writers Robert Boyd, Jan Harold Brunvand, and Robert Loren Fleming, [4] The Big Book of Urban Legends won the 1995 Eisner Award for Best Anthology. [5] Collected by Brunvand, the two hundred tales in this volume are folklore for our times.
Sefer HaAggadah (The Book of Legends) is a compilation of Aggadot (singular Aggadah; Aramaic אַגָּדָה: "tales, lore") that was compiled and edited by Hayim Nahman Bialik and Yehoshua Hana Rawnitzki starting from 1903. Most of the sources included in Sefer HaAggadah come from the period of the Tannaim and the Amoraim.
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In the 2006 book Steel Drivin' Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of an American Legend, historian Scott Reynolds Nelson detailed his discovering documentation of a 19-year-old African-American man alternately referred to as John Henry, John W. Henry, or John William Henry in previously unexplored prison records of the Virginia Penitentiary. At ...
The three Big Secrets books are: Big Secrets (1983; ISBN 0-688-04830-7) Bigger Secrets (1989; ISBN 0-395-53008-3) Biggest Secrets (1994; ISBN 0-688-13792-X) Big Secrets and Biggest Secrets were later re-released in a joint volume called The Big Book of Big Secrets
The book has been printed in several formats. The original release on 6 November 1997 was a large-format hardback with a predominantly white cover. This led to the book being dubbed 'The Big White Book' by fans. Some additional fans, citing poor quality of the internal illustrations, have dubbed the volume "The Big Book With Bad Art". [2]
Siobhan Fallon Hogan, who was a cast member from 1991 to 1992 and went on to star in popular films such as Forrest Gump and Men in Black, remarked on how the internet and social media have given ...
The Legends of the Jews is a chronological compilation of aggadah from hundreds of biblical legends in Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash.The compilation consists of seven volumes (four volumes of narrative texts and two volumes of footnotes with a volume of index) synthesized by Louis Ginzberg in a manuscript written in the German language.