Mythology, Legends & Folklore

The story of Burnt Njal: From the Icelandic of the Njals Saga

Sir George Dasent’s translation of the Icelandic Njál’s Saga appears here under the evocative title The Story…

Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales. First Series

H. C. Andersen

Hans Andersen’s Fairy Tales, First Series, gathers a selection of the Danish author’s most celebrated…

Dimasalang Kalendariong Tagalog (1922)

Honorio López

The work is a 1922 Tagalog calendar compiled by Honorio Lopez, a former revolutionary officer, agronomist,…

The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Vana Parva, Part 2

The volume presents the Vana Parva, Part 2 of the Mahābhārata as rendered into English prose by the ancient…

Cinderella; Or, The Little Glass Slipper, and Other Stories

Anonymous

This volume presents a familiar fairy‑tale in a single, continuous narrative, beginning with a brief…

Favorite Fairy Tales

This volume is a retelling of the familiar tale of a princess whose skin is as white as snow, whose cheeks…

斬鬼傳

Zhang Liu

The lost Atlantis, and other ethnographic studies

Sir Daniel Wilson

The work is a scholarly miscellany assembled by Daniel Wilson Sir after his death in 1892, presented as his…

Viking Tales

Jennie Hall

The book is a collection of short stories that re‑imagine Viking sagas, beginning with a vivid portrait of…

The high deeds of Finn, and other bardic romances of ancient Ireland

T. W. Rolleston

The volume is a literary retelling of the bardic romances that once flourished in ancient Ireland, gathered…

Traditions of the Arikara

George A. Dorsey

The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and wonder tales

The Junior Classics, Volume 1: Fairy and Wonder Tales is a curated anthology that gathers a wide range of…

Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 3

Viktor Rydberg

Viktor Rydberg’s Teutonic Mythology offers a scholarly survey of Germanic and Norse legend, and Volume III…

History of Egypt, Chaldæa, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 3 (of 12)

G. Maspero

The work is a scholarly survey of ancient Near Eastern history, written by the French Egyptologist Gaston…

A Wonder Book for Girls & Boys

Nathaniel Hawthorne

This work is a collection of six Greek myths reshaped for a youthful audience, presented as a series of…

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

L. Frank Baum

The work is a fanciful juvenile fantasy that recounts the origins of Santa Claus as a mythic saga.

National Epics

Kate Milner Rabb

National Epics is a scholarly anthology that seeks to make the great narrative poems of world literature…

Teutonic Mythology: Gods and Goddesses of the Northland, Vol. 1

Viktor Rydberg

The work is a scholarly survey of the mythic and linguistic heritage of the peoples the author calls…

Chitra, a Play in One Act

Rabindranath Tagore

The work is a one‑act dramatic poem by Rabindranath Tagore that retells the mythic episode of Chitrangada,…

五色石

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Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk

Robert Ford

Robert Ford’s compilation presents a sweeping survey of Scotland’s children’s folklore, gathered from “wide…

El Payador, Vol. I Hijo de la Pampa

Leopoldo Lugones

Este libro es una reflexión erudita sobre el papel del cantautor ambulante –el payador– en la gestación de la…

Heathen mythology, Illustrated by extracts from the most celebrated writers, both ancient and modern

Various

Heathen Mythology is a compendium that weaves together the legends of the ancient gods with excerpts from the…

The Folk-lore of Plants

T. F. Thiselton-Dyer

The work is a scholarly survey of the folklore surrounding plants, tracing how diverse cultures have imagined…