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Mythology, Legends & Folklore — page 9
546 public-domain mythology, legends & folklore books, summarised. Page 9 of 12.
Pan-Worship, and Other Poems
Eleanor Farjeon
The ancient pulse of nature beats beneath the surface of the modern world, waiting for those who can still hear the echoes of a pagan past.
Strange Stories from the Lodge of Leisures
Songling Pu
These tales explore a world where the boundary between the living and the dead is as permeable as a garden gate, revealing the profound influence of the supernatural on the Chinese imagination.
Literary Fables of Yriarte
Tomás de Iriarte
<Image alt="Vintage book cover or illustration of Tomás de Iriarte's Literary Fables" caption="Literary Fables of Yriarte" src="imageagenttag1"/ Every fable carries a lesson, but these verses trade moral sermons for sharp literary critique, aiming their wit at the vanity, pedantry, and pretensions of the writing craft.
The Kiltartan Poetry Book
Lady Gregory
A quiet revolution slumbers in these pages, where ancient Irish sagas, local laments, and country folk-songs find a shared, luminous voice.
Danish ballads
E. M. (Eleanor Mary) Smith-Dampier
The ghosts of ancient Denmark walk through these pages, preserved in the rhythmic, haunting cadence of a long-forgotten oral tradition. Here, the boundary between the living and the dead is as thin as a winter mist.
Indian Legends Retold
Elaine Goodale Eastman
A collection of ancestral stories passed down through generations, these tales bridge the divide between the seen world of human experience and the hidden, mysterious realm of the spirit.
From the Heart of Israel: Jewish Tales and Types
Bernard Drachman
These narratives preserve the vanished rhythms of Jewish life across Europe and the early American immigrant experience, blending sincere piety with the sharp ironies of human behavior. They offer a window into a world defined by tradition and the quiet dignity of the everyday.
Historical Tales and Legends of the Highlands
Unknown
These collected narratives preserve the haunting echoes of the Scottish Highlands, where ancient superstitions and fierce clan rivalries define the boundaries between tragedy and enduring legend.
Legends of the North: The Guidman O' Inglismill and The Fairy Bride
Patrick Buchan
The perils of the pub are rarely as supernatural as they are for the Guidman o' Inglismill, whose tavern habits invite a visit from the fairy host.
My Dark Companions and Their Strange Stories
Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Gathered around flickering campfires during long, arduous expeditions across Central Africa, a group of travelers shares the folklore and legends of their homelands. These stories serve as a timeless archive of the human imagination, bridging the gap between the wild unknown and the familiar hearth.
The Trail of the Elk
Mikkjel Fønhus
An obsession born in the Norwegian wilderness binds a lonely hunter to a legendary beast, driving both through decades of pursuit toward a final, fateful reckoning.
Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse
Arthur Herbert Leahy
Through verse and prose, these early Irish tales capture a heroic world where chivalry, tragic love, and supernatural shadow collide.
The Piper: A Play in Four Acts
Josephine Preston Peabody
When a wandering player rids a medieval town of its plague of rats, the greedy burgesses refuse to pay him his thousand guilders—so he pipes their children away to a mountain hideout.
Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3
James Athearn Jones
These gathered legends preserve the vanishing echoes of indigenous belief, weaving supernatural encounters and historical memory into a solemn tapestry of the American wilderness. They offer a window into an era where myth and landscape were inseparable.
Jewish fairy stories
Gerald Friedlander
A hidden worm splits stones without metal, a bride outsmarts the law of separation, and a raven learns the heavy cost of pride.
The Story of the Other Wise Man
Henry Van Dyke
A devoted Parthian priest sacrifices his life's dream of presenting three precious jewels to the newborn Messiah, repeatedly delaying his quest to rescue the suffering and forgotten.
The Táin
Mary A. (Mary Ann) Hutton
Envy and pride trigger a devastating invasion when a queen demands Ulster’s prize bull, leaving one young champion to defend an entire province alone.
Baron Bruno
Louisa Morgan
The world is thin and the veil between the mundane and the magical is easily parted by a sorrowing heart or a searching mind. These tales explore the fragile boundary where mortal longing meets the supernatural.
The Purgatory of St. Patrick
Pedro Calderón de la Barca
A man confronts the absolute terror of his own soul’s dark legacy, journeying through a legendary cavern to face the reality of eternity. This drama maps the spiritual pilgrimage of a sinner seeking redemption in a world where heaven and hell are pressing, physical thresholds.
Maori folk-tales of the Port Hills, Canterbury, New Zealand
James Cowan
The Port Hills of New Zealand are not merely volcanic ridges, but ancient, living archives where every crag and gully preserves the echoes of Māori legends and the history of those who claimed this rugged landscape.
Poseidon's paradise: the romance of Atlantis
Elizabeth G. Birkmaier
The legend of the lost continent finds new life in this sweeping tale of ancient hubris, where the inevitable sinking of an island becomes the backdrop for a story of love and moral awakening.
Indian Legends of Vancouver Island
Alfred Carmichael
This collection of oral traditions offers a rare, immersive window into the mythology and geography of the Seshaht and Ohyaht peoples of Vancouver Island. It captures a vanishing world through the eyes of those who knew its landscapes as living, storied entities.
The Secret of the Creation
Howard D. Pollyen
HOOK This expansive, visionary work reimagines the origins of the cosmos and the human soul through a blend of primordial myth and poetic devotion.
Killarney
Mary Gorges
The region of Killarney acts as both a physical destination and a gateway to a realm of legend, where the rugged peaks of Ireland meet a landscape steeped in folklore. This evocative account navigates the famous lakes and mountains of Kerry, capturing a world where natural beauty and ancient history are inseparable.
Accolon of Gaul, with Other Poems
Madison Julius Cawein
A tapestry of Arthurian longing and nature-steeped reverie, this collection weaves mythic narratives with lyrical explorations of the American landscape.
Mordred and Hildebrand: A Book of Tragedies
Wilfred Campbell
When legitimate crowns are tainted by sin, power becomes a heavy curse that fractures both great empires and individual human hearts.
Prince Hagen
Upton Sinclair
HOOK A supernatural usurper from the depths of the earth emerges to master the cutthroat world of American high society, wielding nothing but gold and a contempt for human hypocrisy.
The house of joy
Laurence Housman
A maiden transformed into a peahen weeping over the brother she cannot bring herself to slay; a moon-child descending a beam of light to retrieve a fallen pearl; a cobbler’s apprentice using dancing magic to outwit a jealous princess. Laurence Housman’s The House of Joy is a collection of original fairy tales…
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands: Second Series
May Wentworth
Amid the fog-streaked cañons and snowbound belfries of a romantic frontier, forgotten children and wandering souls discover that even the coldest wilderness yields to acts of quiet devotion.
The Story and Song of Black Roderick
Dora Sigerson Shorter
A cold chieftain's pride breaks a gentle bride's heart, but her enduring love pursues his lost soul across the borders of death, hell, and paradise to claim his ultimate redemption.
Old Celtic tales
E. M. (Ethel Mary) Wilmot-Buxton
A tapestry of ancient British myth, where shape-shifting bards, questing knights, and tragic spells shape the destiny of kings.
The Village of Youth, and Other Fairy Tales
Bessie Hatton
A heart afraid of growing old divides its kingdom to stay forever young, only to discover that time cannot be cheated without losing what makes life worth living.
Antar: A Bedoueen Romance
Terrick Hamilton
The desert is a crucible where blood, poetry, and steel forge a man from slavery into the greatest hero of his age. This epic chronicle captures a world governed by honor, where the edge of a sword and the grace of a verse are the only currencies that matter.
Bits of Blarney
R. Shelton (Robert Shelton) Mackenzie
This collection of Irish lore and biography captures the distinct spirit of a nation through its ancient legends, eccentric characters, and political giants. It serves as a nostalgic bridge between traditional oral history and the more rigid, modern era.
By the Barrow River, and Other Stories
Edmund Leamy
A collection of evocative short stories, these tales weave together the folklore, political strife, and romantic longing of the Irish landscape. They offer a vivid, lyrical window into a world shaped by memory and myth.
Heroic Romances of Ireland, Translated into English Prose and Verse
Arthur Herbert Leahy
These ancient Irish romances act as a vivid, visceral bridge between the lost mythic past and the literary traditions of the modern world. They offer a rare, unfiltered look into a heroic age defined by elemental passions and supernatural encounters.
The Blood of Rachel, a Dramatization of Esther, and Other Poems
Cotton Noe
HOOK A tapestry of verse and drama, this collection explores the struggle between ancient power and moral integrity, weaving biblical archetypes into the landscape of a changing, modern world.
A Pacific Coast Vacation
Morris, James Edwin, Mrs.
A turn-of-the-century travelogue, this account captures the grandeur of the American Pacific Coast, from the icy, gold-flecked fjords of Alaska to the sun-drenched vineyards and volcanic peaks of California.
The Punishment of the Stingy, and Other Indian Stories
George Bird Grinnell
These stories offer a window into the rich, ancestral imagination of North American indigenous peoples, preserving the humor, tragedy, and moral clarity of a world where animals and humans are never truly separate.
Algic Researches, Comprising Inquiries Respecting the Mental Characteristics of the North American Indians, First Series. Indian Tales and Legends, Vol. 2 of 2
Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
A phantom swan bleeds across the northern lakes, drawing hunters, heroes, and tricksters into a landscape where the boundary between mortal men and spirits dissolves with every step.
In Indian Tents: Stories Told by Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac Indians to Abby L. Alger
Abby Langdon Alger
The primordial earth comes alive through spoken memory, where heroic sorcerers, giant forest spirits, and clever animal tricksters shape the physical world.
Tama
Onoto Watanna
Alone in a foreign land, a lonely American scholar finds his isolation shattered by an elusive outcast whose untamed life holds the power to redeem them both.
A Mine of Faults
F. W. (Francis William) Bain
An arrogant young ruler who despises women believes himself invincible against the snares of love, only to find his defenses completely undone by a single meeting with a clever, high-altitude princess.
Folk Tales of Breffny
Bampton Hunt
Through the lens of an old storyteller, these Irish folktales capture the perilous, porous border between the mundane world and a hidden realm of capricious spirits.
Helen Redeemed and Other Poems
Maurice Hewlett
High above a doomed city, a queen barters her pride to an abandoned king while gods flee into the morning mist and a wooden snare sits at the gates.
Servian Popular Poetry
John Bowring
A treasury of lyrical sorrow and historical grandeur, this collection resurrects the oral spirit of a nation through the rhythmic pulse of its ancient, unrecorded songs. It captures the defiant heart of a people who turned to music to survive the storms of history.
Gleanings from Chinese folklore
Nellie Naomi Russell
A window into the enduring soul of a culture, this collection gathers the oral histories and legends that sustained generations of Chinese families long before the modern era.
The triumph of the Innocents
William Holman Hunt
A haunting, luminous meditation on the flight into Egypt, this work explores the intersection of divine tragedy and human resilience through the eyes of an artist obsessed with historical and spiritual truth.