Mythology, Legends & Folklore

Good Stories for Great Holidays Arranged for Story-Telling and Reading Aloud and for the Children's Own Reading

Frances Jenkins Olcott

Good Stories for Great Holidays is a curated anthology designed for both children’s independent reading and…

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ

Kersey Graves

The work is a polemical study of comparative religion that sets out to demonstrate that the Christian…

Lyra Celtica: An Anthology of Representative Celtic Poetry

Korean folk tales: Imps, ghosts and fairies

Im, Pang; Yi, Yuk

This volume presents a single, richly detailed Korean folk narrative that intertwines love, duty, and social…

Sagas from the Far East; or, Kalmouk and Mongolian Traditionary Tales

The volume is a scholarly compilation of Kalmyk and Mongolian folklore, presented as a series of mythic…

Thistledown: A Book of Scotch Humour, Character, Folk-lore, Story & Anecdote

Robert Ford

Robert Ford’s Thistledown is a wide‑ranging anthology of Scottish wit, assembled to showcase the nation’s…

An essay towards a natural history of serpents

Charles Owen

Charles Owen’s work is a scholarly compendium on serpents, divided into three distinct sections.

Jaufry the Knight and the Fair Brunissende: A Tale of the Times of King Arthur

Mary-Lafon, Jean Bernard Lafon, called

This work is a medieval Arthurian romance, rendered from a 12th‑century Provençal poem into English prose…

The Light of Asia

Sir Edwin Arnold

The Light of Asia is a poetic retelling of the birth and early life of the Buddha, framed as an epic hymn…

Aladdin and the Magic Lamp

Unknown

The tale begins in a modest Arab town, introducing a lazy youth named Aladdin, the son of a deceased tailor,…

The history and poetry of finger-rings

Charles Edwards

The work is a scholarly survey of finger‑rings that blends historical narrative with occasional verse.

The Iliads of Homer Translated according to the Greek

Homer

This volume presents Homer’s Iliad as rendered in English according to the original Greek text, preserving…

Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of the Brothers Grimm

Grimm, Jacob; Grimm, Wilhelm

I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: A Fragment.

This volume presents the Old English epic Beowulf together with the fragmentary “Fight at Finnsburh,” both…

Atlantis: The Antedeluvian World

Ignatius Donnelly

Ignatius Donnelly’s Atlantis: The Antediluvian World is a nineteenth‑century synthesis that treats the legend…

Stories from the Pentamerone

Giambattista Basile

Stories from the Pentamerone gathers together Giambattista Basile’s early‑modern Italian folktales, a…

The Orkneyinga Saga

Anonymous

The Orkneyinga Saga is a medieval chronicle that records the rise and rule of the Norse earls who founded an…

Error's chains: How forged and broken : A comparative history of the national, social and religious errors that mankind has fallen into and practised from the creation down to the present time.

Frank S. Dobbins

Frank S. Dobbins’s Error’s Chains is an ambitious survey of humanity’s “false gods” from the earliest…

Lancashire Folk-lore Illustrative of the Superstitious Beliefs and Practices, Local Customs and Usages of the People of the County Palatine

Harland, John; Wilkinson, Thomas Turner

Lancashire Folk‑lore is a scholarly compilation of the county’s superstitious beliefs, customs and usages,…

Lancelot of the Laik: A Scottish Metrical Romance (About 1490-1500 A. D.)

Lancelot of the Laik is a Scottish metrical romance composed around the turn of the sixteenth century,…

The Fairy Books of Andrew Lang A Project Gutenberg Linked Index to All Stories in the 12 Volumes

Andrew Lang

True Stories of Wonderful Deeds Pictures and Stories for Little Folk

Anonymous

The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together with Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales

James Grant

The work is an expansive antiquarian survey of superstition, occult belief, and witch‑trial practices across…

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) Based Originally on Bulfinch's "Age of Fable" (1855)

Gayley, Charles Mills; Bulfinch, Thomas

The work is a scholarly guide that links the great myths of antiquity to their treatment in English poetry…