Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

The volume is a survey of the fairy and folk traditions that survive among Ireland’s rural people, framed by…

The Folk-Tales of the Magyars Collected by Kriza, Erdélyi, Pap, and Others

The volume presents a scholarly compilation of Magyar folk‑tales, drawn from the collections of Kriza,…

The Book of Mormon: an account written by the hand of Mormon, upon plates taken from the plates of Nephi

Smith, Joseph, Jr.; Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

The Book of Mormon presents itself as a sacred record claimed to be translated from ancient gold plates, a…

The Substance of a Dream

F. W. Bain

The work presents itself as a self‑conscious fantasy, introduced not with a conventional scene but with a…

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (Third Edition, Vol. 05 of 12)

James George Frazer

The work is a scholarly expansion of James George Frazer’s monumental study of myth, magic and religion,…

Korean Fairy Tales

William Elliot Griffis

William Elliot Griffis’s Korean Fairy Tales gathers a dozen short narratives drawn from Korean folklore, each…

Indian Story and Song, from North America

Alice C. Fletcher

Stories of Siegfried, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor

Mary Macgregor’s work is a retelling of the Siegfried legend aimed at younger readers, as indicated by its…

Legends of Texas

The work is a scholarly compilation of Texas folklore, assembled by J.

The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

Charles Perrault

The volume presents the fairy‑tale collection that made Charles Perrault a lasting favorite of readers,…

Japanese Fairy Tales

Yei Theodora Ozaki

This volume presents a selection of Japanese fairy tales gathered by Yei Theodora Ozaki and rendered into…

The Initiates of the Flame

Manly P. Hall

The work is an occult treatise that frames human history as a series of cycles in which a spiritual fire,…

Bantu Beliefs and Magic With particular reference to the Kikuyu and Kamba tribes of Kenya Colony; together with some reflections on East Africa after the war

C. W. Hobley

This work is a scholarly ethnographic study by C. W. Hobley, a long‑serving provincial commissioner in…

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules Translated into English rhyme and blank verse; with a dissertation on the life and æra, the poems and mythology of Hesiod, and copious notes.

Hesiod

The volume presents a nineteenth‑century English rendering of Hesiod’s Theogony and the fragmentary “Shield…

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

The volume is a nineteenth‑century anthology assembled by James Henry Dixon for the Percy Society, presenting…

Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings

John H. Huddilston

The work is a scholarly survey that brings together Greek vase‑painting and the extant tragedies of…

醒世恆言

Menglong Feng

Stories from the Ballads, Told to the Children

Mary Macgregor

This volume is a collection of traditional ballads reshaped for young readers, gathered by Mary Macgregor…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 (of 10)

This volume presents a newly assembled English rendering of the Arabian Nights, a sprawling collection of…

補紅樓夢

active 18th century-19th century Langhuanshanqiao

The Red Fairy Book

The Red Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives gathered from a variety of European sources, each…

The Popular Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India, Vol. 1 (of 2)

William Crooke

The work is a scholarly survey of the everyday religious practices that animate the lives of peasants in…

The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems

Homer

The volume gathers Homer’s two great epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with a selection of his shorter…

聊齋志異

Songling Pu