Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The Legends of the Jews — Volume 1

Louis Ginzberg

Louis Ginzberg’s The Legends of the Jews is a scholarly compilation that gathers the vast body of narrative…

Just so stories

Rudyard Kipling

Rudyard Kip‑Khan’s Just So Stories is a collection of whimsical animal fables written for children, each…

The Book of the Dead

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

The work is a scholarly survey of the ancient Egyptian “Book of the Dead,” a loose collection of spells,…

Four Plays of Aeschylus

Aeschylus

Four of Aeschylus’s surviving dramas are gathered here, each a fragment of a larger trilogy that once formed…

The Magic of the Horse-shoe, with other folk-lore notes

Robert Means Lawrence

The book is a scholarly yet popular‑style survey of folk beliefs, opening with a broad statement on how the…

The Pink Fairy Book

Andrew Lang

The Pink Fairy Book is a collection of folk narratives gathered from many cultures, assembled by Andrew Lang…

Rumanian Bird and Beast Stories Rendered into English

The book is a collection of Romanian folk narratives that centre on birds, beasts and insects, each presented…

The legend of Perseus, Volume 3 (of 3): Andromeda. Medusa.

Edwin Sidney Hartland

Hartland’s third volume continues the scholarly survey begun in the earlier parts of his three‑volume work on…

Celtic Folk and Fairy Tales

This volume presents a curated selection of Celtic folk‑tales drawn from the rich oral traditions of Ireland,…

The Collected Writings of Dougal Graham, "Skellat" Bellman of Glasgow, Vol. 2 of 2

Dougal Graham

Shadowings

Lafcadio Hearn

The volume is a translation of Japanese folklore and legend, gathered by Lafcadio Hearn under the title…

Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi

P. Polevoi

Russian Fairy Tales from the Skazki of Polevoi is a nineteenth‑century anthology that gathers a selection of…

A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume 1 (of 6)

Jacob Bryant

Jacob Bryant’s A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology is a scholarly treatise that seeks to strip…

Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series

William Bottrell

The third series of William Bottrell’s Stories and Folk‑Lore of West Cornwall gathers a wide assortment of…

The Faerie Queene — Volume 01

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s ambitious early‑modern English poem, conceived as a series of…

Robin Hood

J. Walker McSpadden

This work is a sprawling historical romance that re‑imagines the Robin Hood legend through the eyes of Robert…

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II—Konkan

A. M. T. Jackson

Folk Lore Notes. Vol. II, Konkan is a scholarly survey of the myriad religious customs that animate village…

Béarn and the Pyrenees: A legendary tour to the country of Henri Quatre

Louisa Stuart Costello

Louisa Stuart Costello’s work is a sprawling travelogue that blends personal observation with a catalogue of…

King Arthur in history and legend

William Lewis Jones

William Lewis Jones’s work is a concise scholarly survey that seeks to map the emergence and expansion of…

Fairy Tales, Volume 1 (of 2)

Fairy Tales, Volume 1 is a curated collection of classic Märchen and comic anecdotes that follows directly…

Popular Tales from the Norse

The volume presents a collection of Norwegian folk narratives drawn from Asbjørnsen and Moe’s Norske…

The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 (of 10)

The volume presents a segment of the legendary Arabian night‑tale cycle, continuing the intricate web of…

The Light Princess

George MacDonald

The Light Princess is a whimsical fairy‑tale that begins with a king’s petty frustration over his queen’s…

Flower Fables

Louisa May Alcott

Flower Fables is a whimsical collection of short, fairy‑tale stories that centers on a garden of sentient…