Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Story-teller

Maud Lindsay

The Story‑teller is a collection of fairy‑tale‑like narratives aimed at children, framed by a warm domestic…

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844

Various

Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume 55, number 344, is a mid‑Victorian periodical that gathers a…

The Epic of Gilgamish A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform

Stephen Langdon

Stephen Langdon’s work presents a scholarly fragment of the Gilgamesh legend drawn from an Old‑Babylonian…

Siegfried, der Held

Rudolf Herzog

Der Roman „Siegfried, der Held“ von Rudolf Herzog ist ein episches Märchen, das im sagenhaften Niederrhein…

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

James George Frazer

The Golden Bough is James George Frazer’s exhaustive comparative study of religion, magic and superstition,…

Dick and his cat: An Old Tale in a New Garb

Mary Ellis

The story is a modestly lengthened fairy‑tale aimed at younger readers, opening with a bleak scene of a…

Vice in its Proper Shape Or, The Wonderful and Melancholy Transformation of Several Naughty Masters and Misses Into Those Contemptible Animals Which They Most Resemble In Disposition.

Anonymous

This work is a moral‑instructional tale aimed at young readers, presented as a series of cautionary episodes…

The Story of Beowulf, Translated from Anglo-Saxon into Modern English Prose

This edition presents the Anglo‑Saxon epic Beowulf rendered into modern English prose, accompanied by…

The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion is a collection of medieval Welsh romances that bridges the world of chivalric adventure with…

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan

Clement A. Miles

Clement A. Miles’s work is a scholarly survey of the customs that surround the Christmas season, divided into…

The Round Towers of Ireland; or, The History of the Tuath-De-Danaans

Henry O'Brien

The work is a nineteenth‑century scholarly treatise that sets out to solve the long‑standing puzzle of…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 3 (of 6)

This volume is the third of a six‑part supplement to the classic Arabian Nights, gathering together a dozen…

Filipino Popular Tales

This volume presents a collection of Filipino folk‑tales gathered between 1908 and 1914, many of which have…

The Literature of the Ancient Egyptians

Sir E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis) Budge

This work is a concise survey of Egyptian literature, compiled by Sir E. A.

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 1 (of 6)

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights, Volume 1, is a sprawling anthology that…

Hindu gods and heroes: studies in the history of the religion of India

Lionel D. Barnett

Lionel D. Barnett’s work is a scholarly lecture‑derived study that traces Hindu mythology from its earliest…

Medea of Euripides

Euripides

The play Medea by Euripides is a Greek tragedy that opens not with the heroic exploits of the Argonauts but…

Pausanias' description of Greece, Volume I.

active approximately 150-175 Pausanias

Pausanias’ Description of Greece, Volume I, is a first‑hand travelogue from the Roman‑era scholar who roamed…

Supplemental Nights to the Book of the Thousand and One Nights — Volume 4 (of 6)

This volume is a supplemental collection drawn from the Edward Wortley Montague manuscript of the Arabian…

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2

Young, Ella Flagg; Field, Walter Taylor

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 is a classroom‑style anthology that mixes familiar verse with a…

Norse mythology; or, The religion of our forefathers, containing all the myths of the Eddas, systematized and interpreted

Rasmus Björn Anderson

Rasmus Björn Anderson’s work is a scholarly attempt to assemble a complete, systematic account of Norse…

The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré

Jean de La Fontaine

The volume presents Jean de La Fontaine’s celebrated fables in English verse, rendered by Walter Thornbury…

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

The Young Folks’ Treasury, Volume 1 is a curated anthology that sets out to fill a home with the literary…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 10 of 12)

James George Frazer

James George Frazer’s third‑edition volume concludes the monumental comparative study of myth, magic and…