Lore of the Stars: Folklore and Wisdom from the Skies Above

Look up at the skies in wonder with this mystically illustrated treasury of folklore from above and beyond.
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Did you know that people used to read the future in the flight of birds? That the constellations were thought to be mythological beings set in the sky? And that eclipses were seen as demonic omens?

For millennia, humans have looked to the heavens to explain the world around and above them. The myths, folktales, and lore that hav...