Author: H.A. Guerber

Language: English

Published: 1893

A useful reference book about most of the Greek gods and goddesses. Stories of the Trojan War, Ulysses and Aeneas, all illustrated with quotations from the poets from Aeschylus to Longfellow and with reproductions of paintings and sculpture.

Author: W.D. Westervelt

Language: English

Published: 1915

The legends of the Hawaiian Islands are as diverse as those of any country in the world. They are also entirely distinct in form and thought from the fairy-tales which excite the interest and wonder of the English and German children. The mythology of Hawaii follows the laws upon which all myths are constructed. The Islanders have developed some beautiful nature-myths. Certain phenomena have been observed and the imagination has fitted the story to the interesting object which has attracted attention.

Language: English

Published: 1919

With tales from the Cherokee, Choctaw, Iroquois among others.

Author: Lucien Wolf

Language: English

Published: 1921

Originally in the form of separate articles on the subject, the content of this book has been rewritten to form a coherent and interesting read. Strangely this myth has yet to die completely as it still lingers in conspiracy theories of today.

Author: Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

Language: English

Published: 1920

A great collection of stories from the greek mythology. Contains stories like "How Orion Found His Sight" and "How King Midas Lost His Ears".

Language: English

Published: 1889

Language: English

Published: 1877

A very thorough analysis of some Basque myths, with a preface that explains why Webster chose the Basque for his study.

Language: Danish

Published: 1922

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Author: T.W. Rolleston

Language: English

Published: 1911

It is for an Anglo-Celtic people that this account of the early history, the religion, and the mythical and romantic literature of the Celtic race is written. It is hoped that that people will find in it things worthy to be remembered as contributions to the general stock of European culture, but worthy above all to be borne in mind by those who have inherited more than have any other living people of the blood, the instincts and the genius of the Celt.

(Historical Series—Book IV Part I)

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1889

When we go back to the early history of any people, we find that fact and fiction are strangely blended, and that the stories told are largely made up of traditions distorted and exaggerated by imagination and time. The myth, however, is valuable as representing the first steps of a nation in the evolution of its literature from a barbaric state, and as indicating special national characteristics.

A Legend of Stiria.

Author: John Ruskin

Language: English

Published: 1885

Author: Sir James George Frazer

Language: English

Published: 1922

Author: Nora Kershaw

Language: English

Published: 1921

Author: Andrew Lang

Language: English

Published: 1893

The Land of Heroes

Author: Anonymous

Language: English

And Their Strange Stories

Author: Henry M. Stanley

Language: English

Published: 1906

This collection has considerable ethnographical and folk-lore value beyond the interest as children's stories. Every tale is very readable, as only the choicest and most curious of stories was selected by Mr. Stanley from his seventeen years of travel through the heart of Africa.

Author: W.D. Westervelt

Language: English

Published: 1910

Author: William C. Griggs

Language: English

Published: 1902

The following stories have been taken from the great mass of unwritten lore that is to the black-eyed, brown-skinned boys and girls of the Shan mountain country of Burma what "Jack the Giant Killer" and "Cinderella" are to our own children.

Author: Nathaniel Hawthorne

Language: English

Published: 1851

The author has long been of opinion that many of the classical myths were capable of being rendered into very capital reading for children. In the little volume here offered to the public, he has worked up half a dozen of them, with this end in view.

Author: H.A. Guerber

Language: Dutch

Author: Lewis Spence

Language: Dutch

Old Tales from the North

Author: Peter Christen Asbjørnsen

Language: English

To term these legends, Nursery Tales, would be to curtail them, by nine-tenths, of their interest. They are the romances of the childhood of Nations: they are the never-failing springs of sentiment, of sensation, of heroic example, from which primeval peoples drank their fill at will.

Author: Flora J. Cooke

Language: English

Published: 1895

Author: Anonymous

Language: English

Published: 1888

Author: Benjamin Taylor

Language: English

Published: 1900

The principal object of this Foreword is to inform the expert Folkloreist and the case-hardened Mythologist (comparative or otherwise) that the following pages are intended for those who, being neither expert nor case-hardened, come under that gracious and catholic term—general reader. The writer addresses not the scholiast, but the ordinary person who likes to read about what he has not time to study.

Language: English

Published: 1921

As told by old Hawaiians and done into the English tongue by Charlotte Hapai.

Author: Ethel Mary Wilmot-Buxton

Language: English

Published: 1908

Author: F. Hadland Davis

Language: Dutch

Published: 1917

Voor Nederland bewerkt door Dr B.C. Goudsmit.

Author: Various Authors

Language: English

Published: 1912

This volume is devoted to a choice collection of the standard and new fairy-tales, wonder stories, and fables. They speak so truly and convincingly for themselves that we wish to use this introductory page only to emphasize their value to young children. There are still those who find no room in their own reading, and would give none in the reading of the young, except for facts. They confuse facts and truth, and forget that there is a world of truth that is larger than the mere facts of life, being compact of imagination and vision and ideals.