Legends -- Hawaii books

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 1 (of 3): The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources

The volume presents a scholarly compilation of Hawaiian mythology, legends, genealogies and traditional…

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 2 (of 3): The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources

The volume presents a sprawling Hawaiian oral narrative collected by the 19th‑century scholar Fornander, who…

Hawaiian folk tales: A Collection of Native Legends

This volume is a curated anthology of Hawaiian legends assembled in the early twentieth century, presented as…

Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii

Nathaniel Bright Emerson

Nathaniel Bright Emerson’s “Pele and Hiiaka: A Myth From Hawaii” is a scholarly retelling of one of the chief…

The Legends and Myths of Hawaii: The fables and folk-lore of a strange people

Kalakaua, David, King of Hawaii

The work is a nineteenth‑century collection of Hawaiian legends compiled by King David Kalākaua, who…

Hawaiian Historical Legends

W. D. Westervelt

Hawaiian Legends of Volcanoes (mythology) Collected and translated from the Hawaiian

W. D. Westervelt

Fornander collection of Hawaiian antiquities and folk-lore, Volume 3 (of 3): The Hawaiians' account of the formation of their islands and origin of their race, with the traditions of their migrations, etc., as gathered from original sources

Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina

W. D. Westervelt

At the gateways of the day

Padraic Colum

Legends of Gods and Ghosts (Hawaiian Mythology) Collected and Translated from the Hawaiian

W. D. Westervelt

Legends of the Wailuku

Charlotte Hapai