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Mythology, Legends & Folklore — page 4
164 public-domain mythology, legends & folklore books, summarised. Page 4 of 4.
Irish Fairy Tales
Unknown
This collection serves as a portal into a vanishing landscape, where the boundary between the mundane world and a mischievous, often perilous, supernatural realm remains dangerously thin. It gathers the voices of Ireland’s oral tradition, preserving tales that feel less like bedtime stories and more like warnings…
The Golden Maiden, and other folk tales and fairy stories told in Armenia
A. G. (Apraham Garabed) Seklemian
The mountains of Armenia whisper secrets of ancient giants, magic eagles, and the unpredictable whims of fate. These folk tales capture the soul of a people through legends that endure as long as the snows on Ararat.
Tales From Jókai
Mór Jókai
A Hungarian master of the romantic tradition spins tales that bridge the gap between historical gravity and the surreal, offering a vivid window into a world of vanished empires and enduring human folly.
The Lilac Fairy Book
Andrew Lang
These are stories gathered from across the globe, whispered through generations and finally captured on the page. They serve as a vast, enchanted map of the human imagination, where the ordinary world constantly bleeds into the impossible.
Hindu literature
Toru Dutt
This collection gathers the foundational spirit of ancient Indian storytelling, distilling grand epics and moral fables into accessible, lyrical verse. It serves as a bridge, inviting readers into a world where gods, beasts, and kings speak in the language of eternal wisdom.
Irish Wonders: The Ghosts, Giants, Pooka, Demons, Leprechawns, Banshees, Fairies, Witches, Widows, Old Maids, and other Marvels of the Emerald Isle
D. R. (David Russell) McAnally
This collection gathers the spirited, oral traditions of the Irish countryside, capturing the humor, pathos, and supernatural dread that once animated daily life in the Emerald Isle. It serves as a vivid transcription of a vanishing world, where folklore and reality frequently collide.
The high deeds of Finn, and other bardic romances of ancient Ireland
T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
These legendary cycles preserve the vibrant, shifting spirit of ancient Ireland, where the boundary between the human heart and the enchanted world remains perpetually thin.
Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2)
Rhys, John, Sir
The ancient hills of Wales and the Isle of Man hold memories of submerged cities, sleeping kings, and the rhythmic, hidden lives of the little people. This work invites the reader to walk those landscapes and listen to the ghosts of a vanishing oral tradition.
A Little Book of Filipino Riddles
Unknown
The riddle serves as a universal mirror, capturing the wit of a culture through the simple, playful act of describing the world without naming it. This collection preserves a fleeting oral tradition that transforms the mundane—pigs, stars, tools, and fruit—into objects of mystery.
In Ghostly Japan
Lafcadio Hearn
A collection of literary sketches and folklore, this work captures the haunting intersection of Buddhist philosophy and the supernatural in late nineteenth-century Japan. It serves as a bridge between the fading traditions of the Edo period and the encroaching modernity of the Meiji era.
Sumerian Hymns from Cuneiform Texts in the British Museum
Frederick Augustus Vanderburgh
The echoes of ancient Mesopotamia arrive through these fragile, weathered fragments, offering a rare glimpse into the devotional life and linguistic mysteries of a lost world. This monograph serves as both an scholarly inquiry and a preservation of sacred song, bridging the vast distance between modern inquiry and…
The Norwegian Fairy Book
Klara Stroebe
These tales of mountain spirits and sea-folk capture the rugged, untamed spirit of the North, where magic is as common as the morning mist and twice as dangerous.
The Rāmāyana, Volume 2. Āranya, Kishkindhā, and Sundara Kāndam
Valmiki
A exiled prince wanders the deep woods, a demon king steals his bride, and a devotion stronger than mountains spans the southern sea.
The Rāmāyana, Volume 1. Bālakāndam and Ayodhyākāndam
Valmiki
A righteous prince is exiled on the eve of his coronation to fulfill an old promise, trading his crown for a forest life while his family and kingdom fracture in his absence.
Primitive & Mediaeval Japanese Texts: Transliterated into Roman with introductions, notes and glossaries
Unknown
A early-Japanese textual voyage through ancient imperial long-lays, folk tales, courtly prefaces, and drama.
Vidyāpati: Bangīya padābali
Vidyāpati Thākura
Love is a fire that consumes the self to reveal the divine within.
Vikram and the Vampire
Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
Bound by a solemn oath, a brave king trudges through the dark to carry a corpse, only to find a cunning spirit inside it that demands he solve a series of perplexing riddles.
The Queen of the Air: Being a Study of the Greek Myths of Cloud and Storm
John Ruskin
The vital powers of nature find their highest expression in the quiet order of human virtue, the truth of noble art, and the life-sustaining clarity of the air.
Time and the Gods
Lord Dunsany
When the dreams of gods take physical form, they raise cities of gleaming marble—yet behind every divine creation stalks a dark, swarthy servant named Time, waiting to tear down what the immortals have built.
Legends of Ma-ui—a demi god of Polynesia, and of his mother Hina
W. D. (William Drake) Westervelt
Maui is a trickster of light and shadow, whose legendary deeds reshape the world—snaring the sun to slow its course, lifting the sky to make room for man, and pulling islands from the deep ocean floor.