Myths
Fairy Tales from Brazil
Fairy Tales from Brazil invites listeners into a vibrant world of Brazilian folklore, where enchanting stories reveal the rich tapestry of c…
Hawaiian Legends of Ghosts and Ghost-Gods
William Drake Westervelt was an eminent scholar of Hawaiian culture, language, and history. In this capacity, he collected the ghost stories…
Stories of Enchantment
Jane Pentzer Myers's only book was dedicated to Kate Winifred: 'Just between the 'Land o' dreams' and broad daylight is a beautiful world, w…
The Mabinogion
Sample a moment of magic realism from the Red Book of Hergest:On one side of the river he saw a flock of white sheep, and on the other a flo…
Animal Fables from the Dark Continent
A. O. Stafford, an African American educator and folklorist, wrote this collection of African and African Diaspora folktales for students in…
The Ingoldsby Legends
The Ingoldsby Legends are a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poetry supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Mano…
Myths and Legends Around the World
This collection is dedicated to recordings of short mythical or legendary works which are in the Public Domain. The stories tell of legends,…
The Islands of Magic
LEGENDS, FOLK AND FAIRY TALES FROM THE AZORES. Some three-fourths of the distance between America and Europe there is a group of nine beauti…
The National Nursery Book
"The Publishers offer in this little volume of well known and long loved stories to their young readers. The tales which have delighted…
The Voyagers
In this 1926 Newbery Honor Book, Pádraic Colum gathers several little-known folk lore tales of exploration on the Atlantic Ocean and …
Told in the gardens of Araby
A collection of Persian stories - Summary by Doug Wade
The Turquoise Story Book
A book compiling stories, legends, and poems about summer and nature, piquing reader's interests by appealing to the reader's fancy, quicken…
Fairy Tales from Gold Lands
High as the clouds are the mountains boldThat tower in the glorious Land of Gold,And cañons dusky with twilight deepWhere a thousand …
Flower Fables
A Queen of fairy subjects asks her Maids of Honor to tell stories while they wait for the sun to rise. Tales including The Frost King of The…
The Book of Nature Myths
These delightful stories about how natural things began are drawn from the early folk-lore of many races. The wonderful explanations of the…
The Ramayan
The Ramayan is an ancient Sanskrit epic. It is attributed to the Hindu sage Valmiki and forms an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). …
Ikom Folk Stories from Southern Nigeria
Elphinstone Daryell [1869-1917] was a British colonial administrator in southern Nigeria who had an interest in anthropology and folklore. T…
Märchen
Anfang des 19. Jahrhunderts begannen die Brüder Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, traditionelle, bisher vor allem mündlich weitergegebene E…
Children's Short Works
Discover a delightful assortment of stories in Children's Short Works, a collection featuring 15 enchanting tales for young listeners. Curat…
The Stone Axe Of Burkamukk
Mary Grant Bruce was an Australian children's writer who spent one year collecting Aboriginal stories in Gippsland - a part of Victoria whic…