Tuesday, June 30, 2009

CFZ PEOPLE: LINDSAY SELBY WITH A USEFUL RESOURCE

Lindsay Selby writes: 'The site below has lots of the old cryptozoological texts no longer available that you can read online for free. People might like to know about it.
http://www.sacred-texts.com/index.htm

Also some good news, my daughter Naomi, who has ADHD and an autistic spectrum disorder, has just passed her MSC by research in plant science. I was told when she was 6 she would never come to anything and to put her in a special school but I didn't listen and even though there have been lots of tears on the way, she has made it and is looking to do a Phd. So I may have had to give up my masters degree but one of the family has succeeded. The university have said I can go back and finish my studies anytime I feel able to, but whether I will I don't know. It was mainly to keep me sane whilst unable to work. Now I have to decide what I can feasibly do and go for it.'

Thanks hun

'Legendary creatures play important roles in many ancient texts. Sometimes they are symbols of the hermetic processes of alchemy; in other cases they crop up in antique accounts of natural history. No doubt, these beings haunt our dreams and nightmares to this day. These are some of the books on dragons, were-wolves, unicorns, mermaids, giants and other elusive creatures at this site.

Abominable Snowmen: Legend Come to Life by Ivan T. Sanderson [1961] The Bigfoot researchers' Bible, by the writer who coined the term cryptozoology.
The Book of Were-Wolves by Sabine Baring-Gould. [1865] All killer, some filler.
The Unicorn: A Mythological Investigation by Robert Brown [1881] Explore the deep mythological significance of the unicorn.
Mythical Monsters by Charles Gould [1886] Dragons, Sea-serpents, Unicorns: fact or fiction?
The Seven Tablets of Creation by L.W. King [1902] The Babylonian creation saga, including the battle between Marduk and Tiamat, a very angry goddess taking the form of a dragon.
Fictitious and Symbolic Creatures in Art by John Vinycomb [1909] Lore of the fantastic beasts of English Heraldry.
The Celtic Dragon Myth by J. F. Campbell and George Henderson [1911] The ur-myth of the struggle with the dragon, told in fine Celtic form with giants, mermaids and sidhe. (English and Gaelic)
The Evolution of the Dragon by Grafton Elliot Smith [1919] The dragon: a neolithic symbol of the goddess, mutating into the prototype of the devil.
Dragons and Dragon Lore by Ernest Ingersoll [1928] [EY]
Lore of the Unicorn by Odell Shepard [1930] [EY] What is the reality of the myth of the unicorn?

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