Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Japan: From the Japanese Government History

The work is a revised edition of a government‑commissioned history of Japan, originally compiled in 1893 for…

Alaeddin und die Wunderlampe aus Tausend und eine Nacht

Curt Moreck

Der Text ist ein Märchen für Kinder, das die Geschichte des jungen Alaeddin erzählt, eines verwahrlosten…

Myths of the Norsemen: From the Eddas and Sagas

H. A. Guerber

The work is a scholarly anthology that gathers the surviving Norse myths from the Elder Edda and the…

West African Folk-Tales

This volume is a scholarly collection of West African folk‑tales gathered during the early twentieth‑century…

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 2 (of 2)

William Crooke

The volume is a scholarly survey of the popular religious beliefs and folk customs of northern India,…

九尾狐

Pinghuazhuren

The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria

W. Scott-Elliot

The work is a theosophical treatise that seeks to reconstruct the lost continents of Atlantis and Lemuria by…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 07 of 12)

James George Frazer

The third volume of James George Frazer’s monumental study continues the comparative survey of the “dying and…

水滸傳

Nai'an Shi

The House of the Wolfings A Tale of the House of the Wolfings and All the Kindreds of the Mark Written in Prose and in Verse

William Morris

The work is a sprawling fantasy epic that opens with a detailed chronicle of a people who have settled beside…

Legends of Old Testament characters, from the Talmud and other sources

S. Baring-Gould

The volume is a scholarly compilation of Jewish legends that expand the biblical narratives of the Old…

Folk-Tales of Bengal

Lal Behari Day

Lal Behari Day’s Folk‑Tales of Bengal is a collection of narrative folklore gathered from the oral tradition…

The coasts of illusion: A study of travel tales

Clark B. Firestone

The work is a scholarly survey of the legendary geography that once filled maps and travelers’ imaginations.

English Fairy Tales

This volume presents a curated selection of English folk narratives, drawn from a broader corpus of roughly…

The Wendigo

Algernon Blackwood

The Wendigo is a late‑Victorian horror tale that begins with a hunting party stranded in the desolate…

Critias

Plato

Plato’s Critias is a fragmentary dialogue that was meant to be the second part of an unfinished trilogy,…

Greek Lands and Letters

Allinson, Francis Greenleaf; Allinson, Anne C. E.

Greek Lands and Letters is a scholarly guide that pairs the geography of Greece with its literary heritage.

Grimm's Fairy Stories

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

The volume is a compilation of German folk tales collected by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm, and it opens with a…

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas

Various

Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas is a collection of juvenile tales set in the American South, drawn…

Folk-lore of Shakespeare

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

This work is a scholarly survey of the folklore that underlies Shakespeare’s drama.

The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Song of Hiawatha is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetic rendering of North‑American Indian legends,…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 04 of 12)

James George Frazer

The third volume of James George Frazer’s monumental study in religion, magic and superstition opens with a…

The Myths of the New World A Treatise on the Symbolism and Mythology of the Red Race of America

Daniel G. Brinton

Daniel G. Brinton’s The Myths of the New World is a scholarly treatise that seeks to explain the symbolic…

Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse