Legendary Creatures

158 pages

• Abominable Snowmen Index

  | | Abominable Snowmen, Legend Come to Life by Ivan T. Sanderson [1961] | One day this fall, my sister-in-law visited me. We were exploring…

• Abominable Snowmen: 1. A Certain Unpleasantness

  *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson is a non-fiction investigation into the historical and cross-cultural evidence for large…

• Abominable Snowmen: 10. The East—the “Mysterious”

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological survey *Abominable Snowmen*, a work of popular science that attempts to…

• Abominable Snowmen: 11. The Great Mix-Up

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological survey *Abominable Snowmen*, which attempts to apply rigorous naturalist…

• Abominable Snowmen: 12. Anyone for Everest?

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological survey *Abominable Snowmen*, a work in the tradition of popular…

• Abominable Snowmen: 13. The Western Approaches

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoology book *Abominable Snowmen*, a work of popular science/naturalist investigation…

• Abominable Snowmen: 14. The Eastern Horizon

  14. The Eastern Horizon Russian scientists appear to have been just as stunned as those of the West about a decade ago when they were…

• Abominable Snowmen: 15. Some Obnoxious Items

  15. Some Obnoxious Items You now have before you an over-all picture, and also some considerable separate details, of the statements made…

• Abominable Snowmen: 16. Our Revered Ancestors

  This is a chapter from *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson, a work of popular cryptozoology that attempts to mount a…

• Abominable Snowmen: 17. In the Beginning …

  17. In the Beginning … In almost every book that I have written, I have found myself, sooner or later, disposed to interject a remark…

• Abominable Snowmen: 18. Some Basic Facts

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological study arguing that the popular conception of "Abominable Snowmen" is built…

• Abominable Snowmen: 19. Sundry Objectionable Facts

  19. Sundry Objectionable Facts It will by now be obvious to anyone that facts such as those already given, even if scattered piecemeal…

• Abominable Snowmen: 2. Ubiquitous Woodsmen

  *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson is a nonfiction investigative work in the cryptozoology tradition, cataloguing reports of…

• Abominable Snowmen: 20. Certain Abominable Conclusions

  *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) is Ivan T. Sanderson's nonfiction cryptozoological investigation into reported sightings of large, unidentified…

• Abominable Snowmen: 3. Further Sasquatchery

  Just because I have skipped over some 60 years by the recounting of only 8 stories, is not to be taken to mean that these were the only…

• Abominable Snowmen: 4. The Appearance of Bigfeet

  This is a chapter excerpt from Ivan T. Sanderson's *Abominable Snowmen* (1961), a work of investigative cryptozoology that sits in the…

• Abominable Snowmen: 5. Footprints on the Sands of …

  If you look out of your window one morning to find that it has snowed during the night, you may be happy or you may be sad. If then, while…

• Abominable Snowmen: 6. In Our Own Back Yard

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoology book arguing for the existence of large, unknown hominids ("ABSMs" —…

• Abominable Snowmen: 7. Late North Americans

  This is a chapter from *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson, a nonfiction cryptozoological survey in the tradition of…

• Abominable Snowmen: 8. On the Tracks of …

  This is a chapter from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological non-fiction book *Abominable Snowmen*, in which he investigates reports of…

• Abominable Snowmen: 9. Africa—the “Darkest...

  This is a chapter from *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson, a work of cryptozoology that surveys global evidence for…

• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Appendix A. ABSMal Connotations

  This is an appendix from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoological survey *Abominable Snowmen*, focused entirely on the linguistics and…

• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Appendix B. The Importance of Feet

  Appendix B The Importance of Feet The study of footprints and foot-tracks—the difference between which was discussed earlier in this…

• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Appendix C. Where We Come In
• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Appendix D. Others Involved

  Appendix D Others Involved The known mammalian fauna of the Tibetan Plateau, the Pamirs, and the Himalayan ranges is very extensive. In the…

• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Appendix E. Sir Edmund Hi...

  Appendix E Sir Edmund Hillary's Scalp— A News Story from Nepal This is, as of the time of writing, the most recent and the most outstanding…

• Abominable Snowmen: Appendices: Contents of Appendices
• Abominable Snowmen: Bibliography

  This is the bibliography of Ivan T. Sanderson's *Abominable Snowmen* (1961), a work of cryptozoology — the study of creatures unknown to…

• Abominable Snowmen: Contents

  *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) by Ivan T. Sanderson is a work of cryptozoology — a systematic, quasi-scientific survey of reported sightings…

• Abominable Snowmen: Dedication

  *Abominable Snowmen* (1961) is a nonfiction cryptozoological survey by naturalist Ivan T. Sanderson, belonging to the early tradition of…

• Abominable Snowmen: Foreword

  This is a foreword or introductory essay to Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoology book *Abominable Snowmen*, written by a contributor who…

• Abominable Snowmen: Plates

  This is not a narrative or argumentative text but a captioned plate listing from Ivan T. Sanderson's 1961 cryptozoology book *Abominable…

• Abominable Snowmen: Title Page

  Abominable Snowmen: LEGEND COME TO LIFE OTHER BOOKS BY IVAN T. SANDERSON Animal Treasure Living Treasure Caribbean Treasure Follow the…

• Evolution of the Dragon Index

  | The Dragon on Ishtar's Gate | The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith [1919] | This is a set of three connected essays on the…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Advertisements
• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  This is a scholarly chapter from G. Elliot Smith's 1919 comparative religion study *Evolution of the Dragon*, working within the…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  This is an early twentieth-century academic lecture in the tradition of comparative religion and diffusionist anthropology, drawing on…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  I have already explained 2 how the increased importance that came to be attached to the corpse as the means of securing a continuance of…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  This is a chapter from a scholarly work of Egyptological anthropology by G. Elliot Smith, tracing the origins and development of funerary…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  Intimately linked with the subjects I have been discussing is the worship of the cow. It would lead me too far afield to enter into the…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  Although the pouring of libations and the burning of incense played so prominent a part in the ritual of animating the statue or the mummy…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  During the last few years I have repeatedly had occasion to point out the fundamental fallacy underlying much of the modern speculation in…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  Prof. Barton's statement (supra, p. 64) is typical of a widespread misapprehension, resulting from the confusion between sexual relations…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations...

  This is a scholarly note from G. Elliot Smith's 1919 anthropological work *Evolution of the Dragon*, belonging to the diffusionist…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: Appendix A

  On re-reading the discussion of the significance of the ka I realize that, in striving after brevity and conciseness—to keep the size of my…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: Early Biological Theories

  This is a chapter of scholarly anthropology/comparative religion from G. Elliot Smith's 1919 book, working in the diffusionist tradition…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: Introduction

  This is a chapter from G. Elliot Smith's 1919 work of comparative anthropology/ethnology, written in the tradition of early diffusionist…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: Summary

  This is the prefatory and concluding framing of a 1919 scholarly work in the tradition of cultural diffusionism, tracing the origins of…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: The Diffusion of Culture

  This is a chapter from G. Elliot Smith's 1919 scholarly work *Evolution of the Dragon*, a comparative religion and archaeology text…

• Evolution of the Dragon: Chapter I. Incense and Libations: The Moon and the Sky-World

  There are reasons for believing that the chief episodes in Aphrodite's past point to the Red Sea for their inspiration, though many other…

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