The people of a village perform their annual lottery, with startling consequences for the recipient of the one paper with the black spot. Includes background information about the story and the author.
Explores initiation rites, wedding feasts, harvest celebrations, religious rituals, and many other customs used around the world to mark all kinds of special occasions.
Kelsey, Ren, and Kishan race against time and the evil sorcerer Lokesh on the Andaman Islands in the Bay of Bengal as they seek Durga's final gift, the Rope of Fire, that will finally break the tiger's curse.
Looks at how maturation from childhood to adulthood is confirmed and celebrated through rituals, religious ceremonies, and other traditions in societies around the world.
Reporter Carl Streator teams up with real estate broker Helen Hoover Boyle in an attempt to find and destroy all copies of the anthology "Poems and Rhymes Around the World, " which contains an African lullaby Streator believes has the power to kill when spoken or thought, and is apparently the cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.
A foundling, no longer able to endure the abuse of the villagers, leaves at age fifteen and is drawn to three mysterious strangers who help her discover her true self and where her destiny lies.
